Sentences with phrase «of coal plant retirements»

This could trigger up to 20 gigawatts of coal plant retirements this year, compared to 4 gigawatts of coal plant retirements in 2014 and 5 gigawatts in 2013.

The already significant pace of coal plant retirements in PJM Interconnection is about to kick into high gear over the next couple of months, according to a new study by Genscape.

Not exact matches

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

Europe saw a record 10 gigawatts of coal plant closures in 2016, and countries including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Portugal are working toward aggressive coal retirement schedules or, in the case of the UK, complete phase - out plans.

Since 2012, two of New York's remaining coal plants, Dunkirk and Cayuga, have requested to mothball while a third, Huntley, has requested permanent retirement due to unfavorable market conditions.

One - third of those plants, among the oldest and dirtiest in the United States, were to be shuttered by the end of 2012, making it the biggest year for coal plant retirements in the nation's history.

We're seeing a lot more natural gas because of its price and the retirement of coal - fired power plants.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Earthjustice's landmark court victory, which put in motion strict new limits on toxic air pollution from coal - fired power plants, drives the retirement of many dirty plants and a shift to cleaner power.

Washington State and Oregon have two of the cleanest energy mixes in the nation, with one coal plant each, both of which are scheduled for retirement in the next decade.

This includes support for policies that: (1) require the installation and operation of state - of - the - art air pollution control technologies and (2) encourage conversion to cleaner energy resources and / or permanent retirement of coal - fired power plants.

Also, despite Perry's «sky is falling» declarations regarding coal and nuclear plant retirements, as Perry's own Department of Energy (DOE) acknowledged last summer, the grid has become more reliable in the last 15 years — notwithstanding coal and nuclear retirements.

Increasingly strict controls on total coal capacity and power plant emissions are expected to prompt the retirement of up to 20 GW of older plants and spur technological upgrades to China's remaining 1,000 GW of coal power.

«Europe Beyond Coal groups have been working tirelessly to secure closures of damaging coal plants, and these German plant retirements show that we are making welcome progress in Europe towards healthy, modern energy systems,» said Kathrin Gutmann, Campaign Director at Europe Beyond CCoal groups have been working tirelessly to secure closures of damaging coal plants, and these German plant retirements show that we are making welcome progress in Europe towards healthy, modern energy systems,» said Kathrin Gutmann, Campaign Director at Europe Beyond Ccoal plants, and these German plant retirements show that we are making welcome progress in Europe towards healthy, modern energy systems,» said Kathrin Gutmann, Campaign Director at Europe Beyond CoalCoal.

But in less than three years the campaign has nearly doubled those predictions, securing the retirement of more than 60,000 megawatts, more than one quarter of all coal plants in the country.»

There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.

A key factor in those retirements is a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation on emissions of toxins from coal - fired power plants.

The commission rejected the energy secretary's assertion that retirement of coal and nuclear plants threatens electric resilience.

Some coal plants applied for and received one - year extensions, meaning that many of the coal retirements expected in 2016 will likely also occur in April.

The underlying analysis revealed that the average coal plant in the US is 40 years old and since 2010 more than half of US coal units have either shut down or have a planned retirement in the near future.

The EPA regulations call for increasing the use of state - of - the - art, natural gas - fired power plants in place of coal plants; increasing renewable energy sources; avoiding retirement of existing nuclear plants; and supporting energy efficiency.

The net result is likely to be an acceleration of the retirement of existing coal - fired power plants.

To compound matters, Michigan is facing a number of coal - generating power plant retirements during the next six years.

E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing coal plants have been marked for retirement over the coming years.

Residential customers experiencing the highest increases, and / or potential increases, are those who are heavily dependent on coal - fueled generation, as required retrofits can not economically meet existing environmental requirements — resulting in the proposed retirement of older coal - fueled plants.

Sierra Club's Hitt noted that the retirement of large, coal - fired plants, many of which date back half a century or more, is already under way.

To date, more than a third of the nation's on - campus coal plants have been retired or are slated for retirement — including recent announcements from University of Cincinnati and Wooster College.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

Market forces explain much of the US electricity sector NOx emissions reductions and nearly all coal plant retirements.

The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.

Similarly, emission reductions in the UK power sector were largely driven by the retirement of old, inefficient coal plant during the 1990s, through sulphur regulations which meant plant owners were faced with the choice of either retrofitting stock or retiring it (Eyre, 2001).

I helped lead a protest outside Duke headquarters a few weeks ago, and last week activists rallied at Duke's annual shareholder meeting, calling for the retirement of the Asheville plant and the cleanup of not only the Dan River spill, but all of Duke's coal ash sites in the state.

But $ 20 million of that will go to workers discharged from coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected by the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

If policymakers and the plant's investors restart construction, the plant would likely reduce the share of electricity the state receives from coal from 21 percent in 2016 to 3 percent, allowing the retirement of most or all of the remaining coal capacity.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern United States.

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

The analysis identifies which units are no longer economic and may face retirement, features four snapshots of communities located near coal plants, and cautions states against a potentially risky wholesale shift away from coal to natural gas.

The Nevada utility has requested approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada for a 100 MW solar plant, while simultaneously requesting the early retirement of a coal - fired generation facility, but its previous objection to net metering lingers in the memory.

In 2008, approximately 8.5 million people lived within a 3 - mile radius of an operational coal plant, but by 2016, following widespread coal plant retirements, that number fell to about 3.3 million.

Given that deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.

Back in April, DOE Secretary Perry issued a memo calling for a reliability study of U.S. power systems, expressing concerns that competitive markets, renewables, and regulations were forcing retirement of baseload (i.e. coal and nuclear) power plants critical to reliability.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

The report pulls no punches when it comes to coal, including a call for a global coal phaseout involving an immediate end to investments in new unabated coal - fired power plants globally and the retirement of existing unabated coal - fired power plants in high income countries.

A longer - term scenario in the study analyses the implications of limiting global averages temperature increases to 2 ˚C, confirming the need for China to start planning the early retirement of coal plants not retrofitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.