Sentences with phrase «of aging coal plants»

In states like Missouri and Illinois, where Walmart has no solar panels or other renewable energy projects, its stores draw power from a fleet of aging coal plants, which are poisoning the air and water.

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Given aging coal plants and the long, steady decline of the industry, putting coal miners to work in less - hazardous jobs seems both practical and appealing.

One of the leading and most economical ways to reduce carbon emissions from coal plants is to simply shut them down, particularly aging plants.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

Massachusetts has offered $ 6 million to Somerset, Salem and Holyoke, site of a third aging coal plant, to pursue renewable energy projects, but state officials say decisions about the future are up to communities.

Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.

Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age

Ageing nuclear and coal plants will be shut, and EU energy systems and markets must accommodate growing shares of variable renewable energy.

The country gets most of its electricity from aging, dirty coal - fired plants.

By 2025, the average age of coal power plants in the U.S. is projected to be 49 years.

Natural gas would provide the second - level of load - balancing with Victoria's aging brown coal - fired power plants remaining on standby to handle high seasonal loads.

«We can power Australia with the wind, sun, and water for a cost similar to replacing the ageing coal and gas plants that are nearing the end of their lives now.

Their primary concern is that a great deal of new gas capacity will be built: 8GW are already under way and their modelling suggests another 17GW will be built as existing plants age and coal plants look more likely to be shut down early.

The review also notes that coal combustion remains the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution in the Czech Republic and highlighted the benefits of retrofitting existing coal - fired power plants with cost - effective emissions controls, and replacement of ageing plants with high - efficiency technology.

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is changing as thousands of renewable sites are added to an ageing fleet of tens of large centralised coal, nuclear and gas plants.

After analyzing the costs of retrofitting existing coal plants with stricter pollution controls, the coalition proposed replacing several aging coal plants with natural gas generators.

The paper then discusses today's coal - fired power plant fleet from a statistical perspective, by looking at age, size and the expected performance of today's plant across several countries.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

Much of the electricity sector's carbon pollution stems from aging, coal - fired plants.

At the time EnCana Corporation (now Cenovus Energy) had started to flood the aging crude field with gallons of salt water and tonnes of CO2 piped from a North Dakota coal gasification plant nearly 320 miles away.

As the state retires its aging fleet of coal power plants, it must decide which energy resources will best serve Ohio ratepayers over the coming decades.

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After a community bike ride from downtown Boulder, folks of all ages planted sunflowers — known for their use in natural soil remediation projects — on a vacant lot at the gates of the Valmont Coal Plant.

Several of its coal - fired power plants were aging and needed scrubbers to reduce emissions and meet North Carolina pollution laws.

The report, entitled Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness — 2015 Update, demonstrates how a variety of factors, including aging infrastructure, more stringent environmental regulations and lower natural gas prices, are converging to make the majority of coal plants uneconoCoal Unit Competitiveness — 2015 Update, demonstrates how a variety of factors, including aging infrastructure, more stringent environmental regulations and lower natural gas prices, are converging to make the majority of coal plants uneconocoal plants uneconomic.

More stringent environmental rules for aging coal plants — almost three - quarters of U.S. coal plants in operation today were built from the 1940s to the 1970s — also play a role.

About 1.6 million electric customers in South Carolina are paying for the unfinished reactors that were supposed to mark a new age of nuclear power as coal - fired plants were shutting down.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.