Sentences with phrase «new coal plants»

Environmental groups also say the bill could set off a boom in the construction of new coal plants because of provisions that would restrict legal efforts to block such projects.

But despite the fact that they are using less coal overall, the pace at which countries built new coal plants in 2015 was faster than it has been since 2011.

They recognize the health threat of coal burning, having banned new coal plants in key regions and reduced coal production by nearly 3 % over the last year.

In contrast, continued public opposition and legal uncertainties may cause investors to withhold financing for new coal plants, placing the future of coal in jeopardy.

New wind generated electricity is cheaper than electricity generated from new coal plants.

It has one of the biggest pipelines of proposed new coal plants.

The proposal had required new coal plants to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

In practice, the proposed rule's standard would make it impossible to build new coal plants without technology for carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Strong export activity and the number of new coal plants under construction will soon lead to a pickup in orders.

But few new coal plants were being built anyway, mostly due to the low price of natural gas.

The principal reason for opposing new coal plants is the mounting concern about climate change.

The country burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined — and has more than 350 new coal plants slated for development.

Construction starts — new coal plants entering construction — were down by 62 percent.

No one was building new coal plants anyway; they are too expensive compared to natural gas plants and wind farms.

The same justification being used now to halt the construction of new coal plants can be used to shut down existing facilities.

But several proposed new coal plants have met with opposition from environmental groups, who claim they have successfully stopped the construction of eight out of eleven proposed plants.

The price for new coal plants would drop considerably if they did not include this additional cost.

It said these countries should immediately promise to stop building new coal plants and to accelerate the closure of old power stations.

China did earlier this year announce a ban on new coal plants in three industrial regions near Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, citing air quality problems.

These Chinese corporations are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal, according to tallies compiled by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin.

[ii] The political agenda in the province made it impossible to consider other options, resulting in the closure of the last coal - fired power plant in 2014 and making new coal plants illegal despite the knowledge that those plants contributed minimally to emissions of criteria pollutants in the province.

Early in the month, members of EURELECTRIC, a pan-European power sector association of more than 3,500 companies, announced that it would cease investing in new coal plants after 2020.

But a vote by the Executive Board in favor of the methodology panel's recommendation would immediately freeze all outstanding issuance requests and put on hold applications by new coal plants requesting admission to the CDM.

M.V. Ramana, a physicist at Princeton University who has studied energy access in India, said new coal plants might create employment for city dwellers, at the expense of poor people elsewhere.

As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

But while India's power demand will double over the next decade, its draft National Electricity Plan (NEP) calls for rising demand to be met with 275 gigawatts (GW) total renewable energy capacity by 2027, without requiring new coal plants beyond those already under construction.

But this loss of stringency only matters if new coal plants are actually built.

Europe has a $ 40 per ton price on carbon dioxide, about five times the optimal level recommended by the model favored by Manzi, and yet the continent is still set to build 50 new coal plants over the next five years.

Referencing both Mayor Bloomberg's $ 50m donation to fight new coal plants, and a study that showed New York City could meet half of its peak energy needs with rooftop solar, McKibben argues it is not feasibility, but political will that stands in our way:

(09/28/2008) Former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, told the audience at the Clinton Global Initiative that the moment had arrived for civil disobedience against new coal plants.

The rule «reinforces what most power company executives and investors already understand — that if and when new coal plants make a comeback, they will need to be designed with carbon capture and storage,» said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Estonian Presidency generously proposes that as of 2025 new coal plants do not receive capacity payments.

Greenpeace calls the technology a «false hope,» while the Natural Resources Defense Council cautions that CCS must be quickly developed in order to export it to developing countries like China, which has been rapidly building new coal plants with few, if any, pollution controls.

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said: «The EU needs to adopt a science - based cap on emissions, ditch plans for dirty new coal plants and nuclear power stations that will give tiny emission cuts at enormous and dangerous cost, end aviation expansion and ban wasteful products like incandescent lightbulbs.»

We can not afford to build a single new coal plant if we are to meet the two degree goal set at COP21 in Paris 2015.

Nationwide, new wind generating capacity in 2008 totaled 8,400 megawatts while new coal plants totaled only 1,400 megawatts.

We could keep the lights on in this country without building new coal plants just by adopting California's policies at the Federal level.

We call it madness, considering that it is China, India and the rest that are opening new coal plants and increasing their CO2 emissions (if that's your thing) as fast as their economies will allow.

Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new coal plants to pump almost double that level of carbon emissions,

Last year, after a lengthy battle with environmentalists, the World Bank moved decisively away from coal, declaring it would only fund new coal plants in rare circumstances.

Building them could displace new coal plants or relieve the pressure to extend the life of old reactors that should instead be retired.

Energy: The Conservatives have embraced new coal plants but ones incorporating methods to capture and store released carbon dioxide.

Now, add to this some bad news about increased use of Coal as reported in New coal plants bury «Kyoto».