Sentences with phrase «old coal plants»

It is replacing dirty old coal plants, and dangerous expensive nuclear plants.

Potential options include shifting to other kinds of power plants, keeping old coal plants running, and improving energy efficiency.

As the owners of older coal plants consider whether to retire them or upgrade them to meet new and emerging environmental standards, the threat of greenhouse gas regulation will be an overlay of uncertainty and possible large expense, on top of the burdens imposed by other new and proposed environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas.

«By replacing decades - old coal plants with homegrown, clean and affordable energy sources, AEP can do right by affected workers and their families, and continue clean energy job creation across Indiana and Ohio.»

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.

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.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

Not long back, Port Augusta had a thirty - one year old coal plant generating 520MW.

As China turns off its very inefficient old coal plants, it's turning on very efficient [new] coal plants — but these plants use standard pulverized coal.

Utilities nationwide have set retirements for 266 coal power plants since 2010 as residents reject paying the personal health costs and the expensive electricity rates needed to keep old coal plants running.

Goals like these are especially notable to the extent that they would supplant even natural gas, which is abundant, cheap, flexible and widely used to replace old coal plants as they become uneconomic and shut down.

Worse, they are producing that energy using creaky old coal plants that are, apart from generating a lot of pollution, sometimes unreliable.

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.

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.

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.

And because most countries don't have an end date for coal, some of that money is likely to be invested to refurbish old coal plants.

«Renewable energy sources, including large quantities of reliable wind power transmitted from the Plains, are ready for prime time and can save money over older coal plants.»

As Grist readers know, a wave of new and upcoming EPA regulations puts financial pressure on old coal plants anyway.

* Closing older coal plants and requiring new plants to capture and store the carbon dioxide produced

While the EPA has provided for emissions trading programs, there will be a lot of closures of older coal plants.

DTE Energy wants to replace three old coal plants with a huge new natural gas burning one.

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.

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.

Old coal plants get second life Alex Katzman, meanwhile, said he uses it to help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions.

She quelled many of the critics, though, when she told the coal reps that the industry «must change rapidly and dramatically for everyone's sake,» that all inefficient old coal plants should be shut down, that all new plants should include CCS, and that the world must «leave most existing [coal] reserves in the ground.»

In 2015, Alinta Energy announced that it would be closing the highly - polluting 60 - year old coal plant and associated coal mine in nearby Leigh Creek, as the base load power from the coal plant could no longer compete against renewables.

The second is to replace older coal plant and displace new coal builds with something much cleaner.

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

Targeted strategies and offers of support have been produced for specific interests: first nuclear, then shale gas, and now, bizarrely, old coal plants.

He also wants to close 10 older coal plants and ban new ones, and eliminate the use of oil.

«Many of the nation's older coal plants will be shut,» predicts energy specialist David Victor of the University of California, San Diego.

Massachusetts activists, meanwhile, are focusing on Somerset, 60 miles south of Salem, which has two old coal plants.

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

The UK has switched off many of its older coal plants, and government policy means it is now cheaper to burn gas than coal.

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....

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.

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

New gas - fired plants are starting up almost as fast as older coal plants are shutting down.

Many power companies already are shutting down old coal plants and switching to cleaner - burning natural gas.

America Ferrera travels to Waukegan, IL to learn why activists are trying to get an old coal plant shut down.

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

There's going to be about 50,000 to 100,000 megawatts of these (older coal plants) retired over the next 10 years.

Germany, meanwhile, wants to close down its oldest coal plants to avoid missing its 2020 climate targets.

If DECC is right and old coal plants will close down anyway, there would seem to be a political opportunity to claim climate leadership by announcing a ban on unabated coal.

DTE is already planning to retire some old coal plants.