That happens, for instance, when building a waste - to - energy plant instead
of a coal station not only cuts future emissions but also brings jobs to a community while protecting local water and biodiversity.
Not exact matches
Britain's last
coal power
station will be forced to close in 2025, as part
of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.
Consequently, plans to build new
coal - fired power
stations will meet a mountain
of resistance everywhere.
Both Canadian and U.S. regulations would impact new builds
of coal - fired electricity generating
stations.
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.
But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless
of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell
coal power
station «are being made on economic grounds».
Two electric generating cooperatives, Minnkota Power and Square Butte, which operate the Milton R. Young Generating
Station, consume virtually all
of the
coal produced by BNI Energy under long - term agreements.
Bank
of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch & Co. unit increased its price forecast for Asian power -
station coal.
Prophecy Resource (TSX.V: PCY) has begun production
of its first 10,000 tonnes
of coal as a trial run
of supply to be taken by rail to electric power
stations in Darkhan and Erdenet, Mongolia's second and third largest cities after the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put measures in place to deal with the
coal shortages at seven
of its power
stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would not result in load - shedding.
The blockchain center for the production
of cheap electricity will be launched in Australia on the basis
of the Redbank
coal power
station closed in the Hunter Valley.
The power
station will consume that mountain
of coal (1000s
of tons) in a regular period
of time, say a week or a few days before the next trainload delivers a new stockpile.
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.
The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power
stations: the burning
of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.
This is like someone would say: «I am an ecofreak, and I am in favor
of brown
coal power
stations without filter.»
Barnaby Joyce says he would be» 100 %» behind the government constructing
coal - fired power
stations if that would lower the price
of electricity.
Speaking at Chongqing University, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would fit all
coal power
stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and hit out at a lack
of government progress in the field.
The EU would need to convert some
of their power
stations to use most probably
coal for a few years.
[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.
Landau Colliery is one
of Anglo American's thermal
coal mines that supplies
coal to power
stations in South Africa and for export.
Protestors are campaigning against Heathrow expansion, new
coal power
stations, the expansion
of agro-fuels and for the use
of renewable energy.
- 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.
Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power
stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new
coal plants to pump almost double that level
of carbon emissions,
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.
If China's use
of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some
of its emissions from
coal - burning power
stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.
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.
There are great mounds
of imported
coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power
station to be burned and release thousands
of tons
of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.
Scrubbed
of coal dust, cooled and compressed on site, the gases are then sent down a pipeline that snakes across the countryside to a sprawling power
station on the outskirts
of the industrial town
of Angren, where they are burned to generate electricity.
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.
He estimates that electricity from the process would cost around 3 pence per kilowatt - hour, comparable to the price
of generating it from
coal, gas and nuclear
stations.
It hopes to make less use
of coal - burning
stations and more
of combined - cycle gas - turbine
stations.
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.
The 4,300 - acre Polk Power
Station, 40 miles southeast
of Tampa, burns
coal using a state
of the art low - emissions gasification process.
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.
Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate
of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit
coal to conventional
stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean
coal stations that will have been built.
The topping cycle reduces the amount
of pollution produced when
coal is burnt and also narrows the gap in efficiency between
coal and gas - fired
stations (Technology, 1 February 1992).
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.