Sentences with phrase «of coal costs»

In sum, generation additions (plus removal of coal costs) are in the order of $ 35 billion and additional investments relate to transmission and distribution assets.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

«As much as I believe it is going to be part of the energy infrastructure around power, I believe that other sources are now catching up with coal in terms of the overall costs,» Morgan said.

The plummeting cost of solar panels and wind turbines also has added to coal's woes.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal in June, saying the accord would have cost America trillions of dollars, killed jobs, and hindered the oil, gas, coal and manufacturing industries.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissiCoal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissicoal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

While the requirements have raised the cost of operating coal - fired plants, experts say a bigger factor in coal's decline has been cheaper natural gas.

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

What's really killing earnings and standing in the way of developing new coal reserves are plunging commodity prices that have left many producers stranded with high cost structures that are no longer commercially viable.

Solar pv has dropped 70 % in cost in the last 6 years and has become competitive with coal (which is dropping in price as commodity) making it more and more expensive to get out of the ground.

About half of the cost is due to increased consumption of natural gas that will be the side - effect of cracking down on coal.

The coal regs come with benefits too, which federal officials estimate will more than offset the costs by a margin of $ 7 billion.

Buried deep in federal regulations to restrict emissions in the coal - fired electricity sector, officials explain that the costs of those new rules is about $ 16 billion in today's terms.

Quite apart from the fact that to get the savings of that 2009 doomsday report we would have to unbuild all the renewable power at no cost and re-commission the coal plants also without cost.

Skeptical Science previously examined Epstein et al. (2011), which arrived at a much higher estimate of the external costs of coal combustion, mainly due to a higher estimate of (non-CO2) air pollution damages.

A large proportion of canal construction was explicitly undertaken to reduce the cost of coal in centers that promised to become large - scale consumers if the price could be lowered.

China's demand for resources to supply its industrial expansion has put upward pressure on prices for steel and its raw materials (iron ore, coking coal), and on the costs of shipping.

The major reason for this is the strong profitability of the industry — the price of both the ingredients (iron ore, coal, freight, fluxes etc.) and the finished steel has decreased, but the costs of producing a ton of steel fell more, so the profit margins have actually improved.

DENVER — The first report in the Energy Institute's Energy Accountability Series finds that proposals from Hillary Clinton and other politicians to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands and waters would cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Plus, more EPA mandates have driven the cost of mining and using coal much higher.

FCA's 80 % plus market share in the North American coal car market is protected by high switching costs and 100 plus years of market share and technological dominance.

«Previous governments in Alberta and Ottawa offered to provide a subsidy of $ 779 milliontoward the $ 1.4 - billion price tag for TransAlta's proposed coal - fired carbon capture and storage project, but even with taxpayers shouldering more than half the cost, there wasn't a viable business case and the project was shelved.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

The Wyoming - based producer said that coal shipment volumes, realized prices per ton, and net income all fell sharply while average costs per ton of coal sold were markedly higher from year - earlier figures.

Due to the increasing cost of fossil fuels we are no longer able to provide coal on a per transgression basis.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

And it's the public who'll pay — new Friends of the Earth analysis reveals that another generation of gas and coal will cost each household an extra # 300 per year by 2020.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

From low - cost coal fields in Pennsylvania, coal was brought to Utica on the Chenango Canal and powered steam driven looms in greatly expanded mills that made Oneida County a textile center of the county until after World War II.

Fracking If fracking proves to be a way of getting low - cost gas to replace coal, then it's got a role to play.

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

That has helped to boost rates of cardiovascular disease and other health effects of such air pollution, a problem that combined with the health effects of air pollution from industrial coal burning that costs China roughly $ 66 billion dollars per year and causes 760,000 premature deaths, according to a World Bank report.

He is confident, however, that even for traditional coal plants the cost of CCS can be reduced to $ 20 per ton.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

Audience question: Big oil and big coal argue that the transition from a fossil fuel — based economy to a clean - energy economy will come at a severe economic cost in the form of jobs.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

Echoes of «keep it in the ground» One former official interpreted Obama's remarks as being aimed at either raising the cost of coal through BLM's leasing process or making it off - limits to coal companies altogether.

Offering his only climate change policy prescription of the evening, he added, «That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.»

Especially when you control them together, it raises the cost of coal, which is a good thing.»

Adoption of clean coal technologies like carbon capture and storage also will be a heavy lift for the utility sector, since they can significantly drive up production costs.

And given the current cost competitiveness of natural gas, there is little reason for utilities to include coal in the planning mix for new generation assets, Barnett said.

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

The cost of one project can run at the $ 1 billion level or higher, causing critics to say that full use of CCS on most of the world's coal plants would bankrupt the energy industry and possibly spur earthquakes (ClimateWire, June 19).

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

«The «Airpocalypse» could be the best thing that's happened, in that it has started a different kind of conversation about the cost of coal,» Turner said.

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»