Sentences with phrase «non-cogenerating coal units»

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

DUK doesn't only mention the word «cleaner» for fun; it has retired 40 older coal units, reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 29 % since 2005.

South32 has unveiled plans to reduce its interest in its South African Energy Coal unit, potentially through a spin - off onto the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Asked if West Virginia's coal units can meet EPA's carbon targets under the state law, DEP senior policy adviser and counsel Thomas Clarke said, «We just can't get there.»

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

My understanding of the CPP is that it really doesn't do much than what's going to happen anyway — specifically as to coal units (e.g., noncompetitive to NG, EPA environmental air regs).

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

That means an ERC produced by a wind turbine in northern Maine could be sold to a coal unit in Wyoming to reduce its emission performance rate.

Carbon Tracker analysed the gross profitability of 619 coal units in the 28 EU countries.

The plant's coal suppliers in 2010 included Keystone Development, the Mammoth Coal unit of Massey Energy, Mine Rite Coal, and Newtown Energy.

Producing synthetic gas and using though a combined cycle operation should put Kemper ahead of other coal units.

The figure below shows the operating cost of coal units in Colorado.

The Duisburg - Hochfeld plant has closed last week (1), and the last coal unit at the Werdohl - Elverlingsen plant will follow suit on 31 March (2).

Xcel Energy, the dominant utility in Colorado, announced it was closing seven coal units.

Steve Winberg, assistant secretary for fossil energy at the DOE, in March told the news group Axios at an energy conference in Houston, Texas, that the agency was prepared to set up funding opportunities for small - scale coal units.

As Germany is pushing ahead with its exit from nuclear energy by 2022, the eight coal units will still be available if needed to meet demand.

The coal units retired in 2015 also tended to be smaller than the rest of the coal fleet.

The underlying analysis revealed that the average coal plant in the US is 40 years old and since 2010 more than half of US coal units have either shut down or have a planned retirement in the near future.

It is possible to capture CO2 emissions at these pulverized coal units, but the CO2 capture technology currently has performance and cost drawbacks.

The net summer capacity of the average retired coal unit was 133 megawatts (MW), compared with 278 MW for the rest of the coal units still operating.

-- The qualifying emissions for a merchant coal unit for a given calendar year shall be the product of the number of megawatt hours of merchant coal unit sales generated by such unit in such calendar year and the average carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour generated by such unit during the base period under paragraph (2), provided that the number of megawatt hours in a given calendar year for purposes of such calculation shall be reduced in proportion to the portion of such unit's carbon dioxide emissions that are either --

The coal units that were retired in 2015 were mainly built between 1950 and 1970, and the average age of those retired units was 54 years.

In their guidance establishing what could be considered Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for regulating GHGs in the permitting process, EPA stated that fuel - switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT: Since NSPS are traditionally interpreted to set the BACT «floor» for permitting purposes, how can a NSPS that eliminates the ability to construct new coal units without the implementation of commercially infeasible carbon capture and storage (CCS) be consistent with EPA's previous guidance?

Coal units they say are no longer in customers» best interest include: Unit 4 at Cholla Power Plant in Arizona; Units 1 and 2 at Craig Station in Colorado; Units 1 and 2 at Hayden Generating Station in Colorado; Units 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in Wyoming.

By creating a demand for this supposedly dispatchable power, the policy discourages the retirement of the very coal units that AEMO has identified as ill - suited to our needs.

So when you take the combination of the cheapness of the BTUs, coupled with the 7,000 heat rate, versus 10,000 heat rates in some coal units, you just burn it more efficiently.

* For the comparison to existing or new NGCC, UCS assumes that the NGCC unit would run at the same capacity factor as the coal unit under consideration.

Assuming new wind or solar power resources at $ 40 / MWh, we calculate that the total capacity of uneconomic coal units in the Southeast rises from 8.1 GW (according to UCS) to 15.2 GW, and the savings from replacing all these units with wind or solar would rise to over $ 230 million annually.

The economic stress test essentially asks one question: Does a given coal unit produce power at a cost that is competitive with current alternatives?

The majority of the reductions in the RGGI region to date have occurred because of coal unit retirements and cutbacks in the use of residual oil which were driven by the economics of low natural gas fuel prices.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

If the answer is no — meaning that it is more expensive to produce electricity from that coal unit than it is to produce electricity from a competing source — then it is considered uneconomic.

Then subtract emissions from other Dynegy and NRG Energy Inc. coal units that have since 2012 announced plans to shut down in Illinois (Edwards 1, Crawford, Will County, Fisk, Wood River) and the conversion of NRG's Joliet plant to run on natural gas.

David Banks, a former lobbyist for Exelon and now a special advisor to Trump, authored a report in 2014 that was critical of demand response, renewable energy, and natural gas in wholesale markets because «non-subsidized plants — including nuclear and coal units — are disadvantaged.»

«-LSB-...] without available capacity from partially utilized coal units, PJM would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts» (p. 1).

It is owned by Canadian utility firm SaskPower and will capture 90 per cent of the emissions from a 110 megawatt coal unit that has been retrofitted with CCS technology.

If a US coal unit installs control technologies to meet the most stringent air pollution regulation, it could increase operating costs by 13 % when the capacity factor declines from 60 % to 40 %.

Consideration of a full range of viable alternatives to the continued operation of aging coal units

[ii] As detailed in Figure 5, the anticipated cost of operating coal units in the US increases significantly from the current operating costs in Figure 3.

Figure 1 details the fuel cost of every operating coal unit in the US.

For instance, during a Q4 earnings call last month, Jim Robo, CEO of NextEra Energy, predicted that by the early 2020s, it will be cheaper to build new renewables than to continue running existing coal units.

Coal units are complex, long - life assets.

The operating costs of coal units vary depending on numerous factors.

In the US, for example, the average capacity factor of coal units has decreased from 61 % in 2014 to 53 % in 2016.

There are several costs associated with running coal units.

Some utilities are currently playing down this reality by not including the all - in costs associated with operating coal units.

Synapse developed the Coal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT), a spreadsheet - based database and model, to identify and investigate U.S. coal units at risk for retirement.

In this blog we breakdown the costs associated with running coal units, by using the US as an example.

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years old.