The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and
old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.
Old coal plants get second life Alex Katzman, meanwhile, said he uses it to help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions.
Not exact matches
Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep
getting built, according to a new report.
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.
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.
Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep
getting built, according to a new report.
Older, dirtier
coal plants need to
get replaced with cleaner wind or solar or nuclear
plants, say.
Okay, it's ridiculous to compare a 40 - megawatt solar PV park to a
coal - fired power
plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
got a contract today to build such a solar project at the
old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically significant.
(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I
get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that
old dated nugget about
coal plants.
The UK has lots of
coal, gas and nuclear
plants that are
getting old.
But this time, instead of blocking construction of new
plants, the strategy will be to figure out which are the nations
oldest and worst - pollution
coal power
plants,
get them shut down, and replace them with renewable energy.