Sentences with phrase «of coal fired power stations»

The UK phased out many of its coal fired power stations during the 1990s and replaced them with natural gas fired power stations.

First, under a cap system the interesting bottom - up actions drive down cap prices, like feed - in tariffs broadly used as in Germany and the closing of coal fired power stations in some EU countries.

In Australia at least, the operators of coal fired power stations have two unfair economic advantages over sustainable electricity:

Ditto for the conversion of coal fired power stations to gas fired.

The aim of the walk was to press for the replacement of the coal fired power stations at Port Augusta with solar thermal.

My proposal is to create an artificial CO2 dome in a pristine area, for example by relocating the emission point of a coal fired power station.

Technology like this is fantastic, it should be expanded (although I am doubtful that it can be expanded to the size of a coal fired power station at the same price point).

Not exact matches

Consequently, plans to build new coal - fired power stations will meet a mountain of resistance everywhere.

Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

Now multiply this by every coal - fired power station on earth running night and day and the staggering volume of CO2 produced starts to be something you can understand can impact the earth on a planetary scale.

Barnaby Joyce says he would be» 100 %» behind the government constructing coal - fired power stations if that would lower the price of electricity.

[33] A month later, Miliband announced to the House of Commons a change to the government's policy on coal - fired power stations, saying that any potential new coal - fired power stations would be unable to receive government consent unless they could demonstrate that they would be able to effectively capture and bury 25 % of the emissions they produce immediately, with a view to seeing that rise to 100 % of emissions by 2025.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

With the Dec. 31 mothballing of NRG Energy's Dunkirk plant and the 380 - MW Huntley Power Station in Tonawanda expected to close at the end of March, Cayuga and Somerset will be the last two coal - fired plants in New York.

- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

New coal - fired power stations form part of Britain's «low - carbon future», Ed Miliband told the Commons this lunchtime.

The agreement followed serious health and environmental violations by two of Niagara Mohawk's coal - fired power plants in the western part of the state - the Huntley Station near Tonawanda, and the Dunkirk Station in Dunkirk.

Such a proposal had as much chance of being approved by Lib Dem MPs as a plan to build 1,000 coal - fired power stations in South - West England.

The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

Earlier this year, Cameron and his then rival party leaders, Labour's Ed Miliband and Lib Dem Nick Clegg, also signed a pledge to end the use of coal - fired power stations to produce electricity.

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.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

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.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

It's a start, but pales in comparison with the impact of three planned coal - fired power stations with a combined generation of 1650 megawatts.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

The policy resulted in the building of coal - fired power stations with a combined capacity of almost 12 gigawatts — about one - third of peak German demand in 2008.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

A group of politicians calling themselves the «Monash Forum» has called for the government to subsidise coal - fired power stations.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

In which way is passing the environmental impact of the ICE to the coal fired power station «cleaner methods of propulsion?»

All the talk of building new coal - fired power stations... no longer sounds vaguely «truthy».

Lobbying of US congress however seems to win the day in many ways and I would not be suprised to see many new coal fired power stations in the USA and hence worldwide built in then ext decade without carbon capture fitted.

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

Taken together this is rather more than double the 169 million tonnes of CO2 coming from our coal fired power stations.

Frydenberg said carbon capture and storage technology, high - efficiency, low - emission coal - fired power stations, and the improvements in the technology of battery storage were canvassed in their discussion.

Stern said that electricity from coal - fired power stations only appeared cheaper because the costs of air pollution and climate change were not included.

In Australia, the last thirty years has seen a massive expansion of coal mining, predominantly for export but also for coal - fired power stations.

To achieve these reductions they propose phasing out coal - fired power stations by 2030 and scaling down the use of unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands.

China is currently suffering from horrendous air pollution caused by its huge numbers of coal - fired power stations.

Somewhat ironically, all six of Victoria's coal fired powered stations are located in so called no - go zones.»

The Global Apollo Programme aims to make the cost of clean electricity lower than that from coal - fired power stations across the world within 10 years.

THE destruction of South Australia's last coal - fired power station today.

More than half of the coal - fired power stations in the EU are lossmaking and almost all will be by 2030, according to a study that says the fossil fuel faces a «death spiral» in Europe.