Sentences with phrase «old coal plant in»

And that's exactly what a group called American Clean Skies Foundation did in order to help make the case for closing down a dirty, 60 - year old coal plant in Virginia.

Apropos of that, the Cato Institute magazine, Regulation this month had a really neat article in it about the fallacy of «grandfathering,» as implemented for old coal plants in the Clean Air Act.

Not exact matches

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

As well, the NIF has postulated that bringing the plants online in the 2030s will have a major impact on reducing carbon emissions as older, coal - producing power plants are then retired.

One came for free, the result of a years - old consent agreement with National Grid as a result of problems with coal - burning power plants in Western N.Y; the other was the result of a $ 4.5 million purchase from a national land trust group.

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.

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

The shortfall may grow critical as electricity producers close down old oil and coal plants in favor of cleaner natural gas.

Instead of building a new zero - emission coal - fired power plant in Illinois, the Obama administration will retrofit an old plant instead

Salem was an ideal test case: an old, dirty plant in a region already shifting from coal and oil to natural gas.

The cost of retrofitting an old coal plant with capture equipment, for example, could in theory run to more than $ 100 per ton.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

Duke Power and Progress Energy in North Carolina are planning new coal plants, allowing them to shut down older, less efficient and dirtier plants.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

And, new power plants with the various anti-pollution technologies (and / or, in many cases using natural gas instead of coal) are much cleaner than the older plants.

In Illinois, our Governor (who is otherwise awful) got an agreement to shut down several old coal plants as part of an overall air quality arrangement.

And, are you (personally) suggesting that Kansas should have permitted the new plant in question instead of renewing upcoming permits for plants of equivalent capacity, OR, in your view, should coal capacity in Kansas be increasing, i.e., in additive fashion, i.e., by approving the new and old plants?

But the coal industry has been pressuring the EPA to reconsider the standard, pushing to weaken regulations that could affect dozens of decades - old, heavily - polluting coal plants like Indianapolis» Harding Street Station, which has been in operation for 54 years.

Yesterday, I spent the day covering Greenpeace's anti-coal efforts in Chicago, where two of the nation's oldest coal plants still operate within city limits.

Every night an old coal train chugs in to central Beijing to deliver its load to the Guohua power plant, one of the city's oldest power stations now surrounded by glitzy malls and towering apartment blocks.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

While the United States is shutting down old coal - fired power plants and not building new ones, Europe — also because of the commitment in Germany to get out of nuclear power — is moving back to coal.

Thousands of coal workers marched in Berlin last month to protest against plans to slap a levy on the oldest and most polluting power plants, which unions say could put 100,000 jobs at risk.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

While adding carbon capture to older U.S. coal plants may remain relatively uneconomic, countries like South Africa, China and Indonesia have a fleet of young, critical coal plants unlikely to retire in the near term.

Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS), running for

«But worldwide we've built more coal - burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade, and closures of old plants aren't keeping pace with this expansion.

2013 Goldman Prize recipient Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming... Read More

There is no doubt that the global coal fleet is changing as older inefficient subcritical stations built decades ago in Europe and the US are being replaced by new, highly efficient plants in emerging economies like China, South and South - east Asia.

The three power plants at issue in the litigation - the Armstrong, Hatfield's Ferry and Mitchell plants - are older, coal - fired generation units.

Under Canadian regulations that will take effect in July 2015, any new coal - fired plant, and any existing one that's at least 50 years old, can emit no more than about 925 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

At power plants, combustion of coal produces a medley of air pollutants, especially in older plants that lack modern emissions control equipment.

In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.

Western Balkan countries, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, plan to invest billions of euros in building new coal - fired plants to meet rising demand for electricity as old plants are being phased out.

Some countries in ASEAN, particularly Thailand, have been embarking on CCTs by retiring their old conventional coal power plants and replacing them with ultra-supercritical coal power plants.

To take just one example, the agency could decide that older coal plants only have to make efficiency upgrades to curb pollution — in which case a modest cut in emissions is about the best that could be expected.

Hugh Wynne, an investment analyst who studies the utility industry for Sanford Bernstein, estimates that the mercury and smog regulations alone could force up to one - fifth of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired plants to retire in the next five years, largely in the Midwest and South.

Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS), running for another five years.

Though there may be a case for supporting a temporary role for older coal plants to be used as emergency reserve capacity in some countries, it says, running for just a few hours a year to ensure security of supply.

John Sauven, of Greenpeace, said: «The Tories» proposals should have been more ambitious given what today's technologies can deliver but, by ruling out the proposed old - style coal plant at Kingsnorth in Kent, today's announcement puts Cameron way ahead of Brown when it comes to cleaning up our energy system.»

That meant coal burned in newer supercritical plants, natural gas, nuclear, tire burning, and existing 50 - year - old hydroelectric plants all counted — and they already made up more than two - thirds of supply.

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.

Finally, coal fired power plants in Minnesota, owned by Minnesota Power (the oldest of which is from l9l7 and all of which are over 50 years old) are seeking new coal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch Ccoal fired power plants in Minnesota, owned by Minnesota Power (the oldest of which is from l9l7 and all of which are over 50 years old) are seeking new coal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch Ccoal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch CoalCoal.

He said he expects China and India to stop investing in new coal plants and speed up retiring its oldest and most polluting plants.

That's why we started in 2005, 2006 building new generation to retire these old coal plants.

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.

BNEF expects the nation's coal - power capacity in 2040 will be about half of what it is now after older plants come offline and are replaced by cheaper and less - polluting sources such as gas and renewables.

We are looking at what other states have done too to learn from them,» said Wasserman, won the Goldman Prize for her role in shutting down two of Chicago's oldest and dirtiest coal fired power plants.

Similarly, 2013 Prize winner Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — located in low income neighborhoods.