Sentences with phrase «of coal generators»

Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.

The analysis evaluates the economic competitiveness of the coal generators in the 2016 operational coal fleet compared to current resource alternatives.

Between all of your research into new resource buildings and other things, then, you have to consider increasing the range of your generator and the amount of heat it can output, but for each new increase the amount of coal the generator consumes is vastly increased, straining your ability to get the black fuel out of the ground fast enough.

Not exact matches

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

In response, several PPA holders terminated their agreements with coal - fired power generators, citing a provision in the terms of the original PPA legislation that allows buyers to end their contracts if a change of law makes the agreement «unprofitable or more unprofitable.»

FERC approved the sale of two coal - fired power plants in New York on the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed the generators would «transition» away from coal.

FERC approved the sale of two upstate New York power plants the same day Cuomo vowed the generators would «transition» away from coal or be closed by 2020.

It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the closing specific power generators, like this clean coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

China has greatly expanded its coal - burning capacity in the past decade, but it has also recently become the world's largest generator of solar and wind energy.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

But nobody wants to own or run coal and gas generators if they can only make money out of them for a few hours on a few days.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

In the latest round of federal elections, the governing Labor Party promised to implement power plant emissions standards and carbon capture requirements for new coal - burning generators.

«Look at the top of that stack,» he shouts over the cacophony of generators and coal - grinding machines.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

The above chart of American Electric Power (AEP), an Ohio - based electricity generator and distributer that runs the gamut from coal to hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind sources, might explain why traders sometimes bypass utilities.

Set in a Steampunk version of the 1800s with everything having gone to an iced - over hell due to a sudden ice age which somehow snuck up on humanity people have decided to leave the cities in order to found new homes using large generators, massive machines that burn coal to provide some warmth amidst conditions reaching -70 c.

A shortage of the coal needed to power your towering generator might just push you into signing a law that allows child labour, even in dangerous jobs where death can occur.

You must fuel the churning generator at the heart of your town, feeding it enough coal to keep your people alive.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

Unless the proposed Sunflower generators were intending to buy coal on the spot market, there's not much to the claim of hypocrisy on the part of Peabody.

Since cooking and eating are primary functions of life and cooking fires are small I would be less critical about them then about gross coal burning generators and bad cars and trucks and so many planes.

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

If growth continues at the current pace, generators would add another 1 billion tonnes of new coal demand every three years.

Increasing use of existing natural gas - fired capacity and lower use of existing coal - fired generators

No matter what type of power generation there may be on a power grid, there must always be a fall - back available; all generators, including coal - fired and nuclear, fail from time to time.

Electric power generators bought just 10.2 million short tons of CAPP coal under short - term contracts in 2011, based on preliminary estimates from EIA.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

Ripe for Retirement: The Case for Closing America's Costliest Coal Plants As many as 353 coal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sourCoal Plants As many as 353 coal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sourcoal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sources.

Some generators use mark - to - market valuations — assessments of the current price for CAPP coal versus the current price for electric power — in making decisions regarding which generating units to dispatch.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founOf the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

For about $ 8 million a year over three years, they could have kept some coal power going and wouldn't have needed to spend $ 400 million on emergency diesel generators they don't want to use, and over $ 100 million on a battery that can supply 4 % of the state for one hour.

Germany is building and opening 10 new coal plants (7,285 MW) in the next two years bringing their hard coal generation capacity to over 32,000 MW, which is (ironically) close to the total generating capacity of all Ontario generators.

Recently, with natural gas prices declining and coal prices rising, dispatching natural gas generators in some parts of the country has become increasingly competitive with running coal generators.

In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

Initially the mine will supply coal to two major Midwestern electricity generators under contracts with terms of up to 17 years.

But some of the country's cheapest coal generators are also in Inner Mongolia, pricing the wind farms out of the power market.

Meaning the grid's power is just an accumulation of all generators such as coal, nuclear, hydro, etc..

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

EPA regulations are projected to force contribute to the shuttering of up to 60 gigawatts of coal power — amounting to hundreds of coal - fired generators across the country.

It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.

In fact in all ten cases the evidence comes from primary sources, such as ExxonMobil's annual accounts and a leaked document from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association, which shows that one of the programme's contributors has been paid $ 100,000 by that organisation alone to produce arguments beneficial to coal - fired power generators (3).