Sentences with phrase «of coal plant construction»

In China and India alone, scattered across more than 100 sites, some 68 GW worth of coal plant construction was frozen in place.

Not exact matches

Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

By: Victor Moolman 8th July 2016 Construction of the Ncondezi Power Company (NPC) coal - fired power plant and the Ncondezi coal mine, in the Tete province of Mozambique, is expected to start in the second half of 2017, once power developer Ncondezi Energy has finalised an engineering, procurement and construction contracConstruction of the Ncondezi Power Company (NPC) coal - fired power plant and the Ncondezi coal mine, in the Tete province of Mozambique, is expected to start in the second half of 2017, once power developer Ncondezi Energy has finalised an engineering, procurement and construction contracconstruction contractor and... →

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

The company also prohibits construction financing of single - site coal - fired power plants that lack the most advanced environmental control processes.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

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.

Al Gore called for a ban on the construction of new coal - fired power plants, a post-Bali session to review its results, and a high - level meeting every three months afterward «until a treaty is successfully arrived at» by 2010, at the latest, the former U.S. vice president said.

Once the construction costs of a nuclear plant are amortized, its operating costs are less than those of any fossil fuel — fired plant, including coal.

He also questioned the need for performance standards on industry in the draft bill, saying that provision would halt construction of any new coal plants beyond 2015.

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

In Gujarat, on the west coast, fish catches plummeted after the construction of a massive 4,800 - megawatt coal plant destroyed mangrove and creek ecosystems by discharging polluted water in the sensitive ecosystem.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

Until technology is ready, there should be a moratorium on construction of new coal - fired power plants in developed countries.

I'd like to pose a question to those arguing in favor of the construction of the coal - fired power plant.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

Realization that all coal - fired power plants without actual carbon capture will have to be «bull - dozed» in the next several decades, in all countries, should serve as an effective brake on new construction of coal - fired power plants during the next few years in all countries.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

If wind can do it all, why do you think the UK government — like the German — has seen fit to authorise construction of new coal plants, attempting to maintain its green credentials by gambling that CCS will shortly become technologically possible and economically affordable?

Ironically, U.S. environmentalists have been a major reason more supercritical coal plants haven't been used in the United States, even taking credit for killing state - of - the - art new coal construction in the past decade.

New coal plants cost three to four times as much as they did three years ago, due to the embedded cost of petroleum and natural gas in plant construction, materials and labor.

Dr. Hansen pointed out that the bill explicitly allows for the construction of new coal plants and predicted that it would, if passed, prove close to meaningless.

In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal - fired power plants.

I do take issue with his proscription against construction of any new coal plants until sequestration can be perfected.

Recently a coal industry official tried to divert attention from the actions that are needed to solve the climate problem by criticizing a specific paragraph in my testimony opposing construction of a new coal - fired power plant that does not capture its CO2 emissions (LINK, pdf file).

They also supposedly called for an immediate freeze on new construction of coal - burning power plants.

The country is increasing steel production and has 78 gigawatts of new coal - based plants currently under construction.

Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants — but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well?

Since 2000, coal - fired power generation capacity has grown by nearly 900 gigawatts (GW), but net additions from today to 2040 are only 400 GW and many of these are plants already under construction.

Since 2007 planning and construction of new coal - fired power plants in India has accelerated, and hundreds of new plants are in currently in the pipeline, as shown in CoalSwarm's India coal plant tracker.

Of the 120 coal fired power plants proposed in Europe in 2007, none have been brought to the construction stage.

The American Lung Association does not support the construction of new advanced coal - based generating facilities, including carbon capture and sequestration and integrated gasification combined cycle plants.

That's why concern is mounting over the construction of a new coal - fired power plant just upstream in Bangladesh, near the town of Rampal.

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2011).

The EPA's New Source Performance Standards for new electricity generating units that would effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired plants.

China, while curbing domestic construction of coal - powered plants, has become a leading lender financing the construction of new coal - burning power plants in developing countries, according to a 2016 study by researchers at Boston University and the Institute for World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

The EPA's new rule, which will be finalized in January 2015, would effectively ban construction of new coal - fired power plants because the average coal - fired power plant emits nearly 1,800 pounds of carbon per megawatt hour.

The study reflects international trends in investment in coal - burning power plants, with construction of coal - fired power plants slowing in the West since the 1980s but increasing in China, India, and other areas of the developing world.

The increasing use of coal for power generation in ASEAN countries will lead to widespread construction of coal - fired power plants, which, without the use of the best available cleaner coal technology (CCT), would result in increased greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions.

A new fleet of coal - fired power plants and a revival of nuclear construction after three decades are both looking tougher lately.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

The first is to prevent the permitting and construction of new coal - fired power plants.

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

Moles whacked About a month ago Eli reported on attempts to force construction of coal powered electrical generating plants in Kansas.

EPA officials, the emails showed, helped those groups gather petition signatures in support of regulations that critics say impose huge costs on coal - fired power plants and amount to a de facto moratorium on the construction of such plants.

It is completely logical for policy makers today to not support tearing down existing coal based power plants, while at the same time supporting the construction of new power plants that are both non CO2 emitting and cost effective.