Sentences with phrase «new fossil fuel power plants»

We must make increasing the efficiency of new fossil fuel power plants a priority, above all in major coal - using countries.»

The bad news is that according to Chancellor Merkel, 10 — 20 GW of new fossil fuel power plants need to be built in order to facilitate the nuclear phase - out.

[7] Indeed, what they are advocating for is construction of vast new fossil fueled power plant capacity as a way to provide cheap CO2 to facilitiate extraction of more oil.

With costs dropping by 10 % per year, if solar power's not cheaper now, it will be long before a new fossil fuel power plant is paid off.»

Not exact matches

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

The Clean Power Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate chPower Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate chpower plants in order to combat climate change.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plPower Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plpower plants.

New York utility regulators have approved the sale of an upstate nuclear power plant, part of the state's strategy of investing in nuclear energy while weaning itself off of fossil fuels.

By further strengthening the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and welcoming new state members, New York will continue its progress in slashing emissions from existing fossil fuel power plannew state members, New York will continue its progress in slashing emissions from existing fossil fuel power planNew York will continue its progress in slashing emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants.

Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines and power plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane and butane and natural gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns, and crude oil heaters at the Port of Albany.

While the Green Party has always opposed the construction of new fossil fuel projects such as the CPV power plant in Orange County, Hawkins said that the recent corruption conviction of Cuomo's former top aide required the state to rescind the permit for the plant.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

The new UK power stations will all be either nuclear or offshore wind farms, though there may also be some carbon capture from fossil fuel plants by the late 2020s.

The European Investment Bank's new criteria on coal lending — tied to specified limits on fossil fuel power plant emissions — have been criticized as being too generous to polluters, while the U.S. Ex-Im Bank continues to back coal - fired power stations in many parts of the world.

«The relative cost of new energy is lower and lower because fossil fuel is more and more expensive,» explained Lu Jinxiang, CEO of A-Power, a Chinese builder of power plants, during a visit to the company's Shenyang wind turbine factory.

For instance, power from a new Chinese wind farm or hydroelectric plant might displace electricity that would otherwise come from carbon - spewing fossil fuels.

That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel - fired power plants.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

Yet many countries are still boosting investments in fossil fuel - fired power plants, a move that will «commit» the world to massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, a new study says.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

«New reactor designs could make nuclear meltdowns physically impossible, and nanoengineered membranes could block carbon emissions in fossil - fueled power plants.

We should not be building new power plants that burn fossil fuels, period.

The past year, capital expenses for new power generation is nearly evenly split, between renewable and fossil fuel consuming plants, for new electrical generation.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statepower plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statePower Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

Fifty US power plants emit more greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels than all but six nations, says a new report.

So we are back to your «plan B» of «buying more time» by adding new fossil fuel fired power plants when new capacity is required (regardless of what James E. Hansen thinks of this option).

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

«Your Administration can point to important areas where it is making real progress towards sustainability — including making major new investments in renewable energy, promulgating EPA rules on carbon pollution from power plants, and proposing to reduce fossil fuel subsidies, among others,» the letter reads.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

First - of - its - Kind Offering Allows Massachusetts to Use Offshore Wind to Replace Retiring Fossil - Fired Power Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSFossil - Fired Power Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSBPower Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSfossil fuel - fired power -LSBpower -LSB-...]

In 1997, The Climate Trust was founded as a nonprofit organization to acquire carbon offsets on behalf of new fossil - fueled power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard, the nation's first legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxide.

Some estimates claim Germany will add up to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide with (supposedly temporary) new fossil - fuel plants to replace its nuclear power — an increase «equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia,» as Reuters put it not long ago.

The logical error associated with using this statement to defend new fossil fuel infrastructure like fracking wells and bitumen sands pipelines (as well as new fossil fuel vehicles or power plants) is so obvious that it may seem unnecessary to state, but the quip is so popular among those trying to delay adequate action on climate change that it requires a quick rebuttal.

The new IEA publication Fossil Fuel - Fired Power Generation: Case studies of recently constructed coal and gas - fired power plants highlights these challePower Generation: Case studies of recently constructed coal and gas - fired power plants highlights these challepower plants highlights these challenges.

Members of the EU Parliament's energy committee have supported reform of energy markets to restrict subsidies for dirty fossil fuel power plants, but failed to reject new gas infrastructure, in two important votes on climate and energy today.

New fossil - fuelled and nuclear power plants already are more costly than older ones, mainly because they have to be compliant with higher environmental and safety standards.

It also said that it has stopped financing greenfield thermal coal mining or new coal - fired power plant construction and will continue to lower its exposure to fossil fuels.

New fossil - fuel power plants will have to meet the standard, or they simply can't be built.

As we add new power plants to our electricity grid, new capacity must be based on clean energy sources, rather than gas or other fossil fuels.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.

The first is that countries shut down their nuclear power plants or stop the construction of new ones, and switch instead to fossil fuels.

This technology could help make new or legacy fossil fuel power plants more eco-friendly, the company claimed, and also be used to to reduce impacts from polluting cement smelters, refineries and other industrial operations.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

A recent Oxford study found that as of next year, no more new fossil fuel - fired power plants can be built.

Earlier this year, scientists found that to have a 50 percent chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, no new fossil fuel - fired power plants can be built after 2017.

If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his effort to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, carbon emissions will spike and the state will become more dependent on fossil fuels than it has been since 2000, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his effort to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, carbon emissions will spike and the state will become more dependent on fossil fuels than it has been since 2000, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finnew Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finds.

If New York loses its nuclear power plants they will be replaced by fossil fuels, and greenhouse emissions from the state's power sector would skyrocket roughly 50 percent.

LONDON / NEW YORK, September 14 — Renewable power generation costs are already lower on average worldwide than those of fossil fuels and clean energy plants will become even more cost - competitive by 2020, a new sensitivity analysis published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finNEW YORK, September 14 — Renewable power generation costs are already lower on average worldwide than those of fossil fuels and clean energy plants will become even more cost - competitive by 2020, a new sensitivity analysis published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finnew sensitivity analysis published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds.

Today around the world, new renewable power plants are being built that will generate electricity for less cost than fossil - fuel power plants.