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«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.»

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

Not exact matches

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

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.

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

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.

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.

The best policy is to replace the oldest dirtiest most inefficient plants with newer plants (not «clean» coal, but cleaner coal).

For example, because of the latest wave of US EPA regulations having nothing to do with climate change it is estimated that 50,000 MW of old coal fired power plants will be shut down.

«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.

Older, dirtier coal plants need to get replaced with cleaner wind or solar or nuclear plants, say.

Environmentalists countered that Utah seems to be content with falling behind neighboring states, where old coal - fired plants are being required to use SCR.

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.

Climate targets mean older inefficient coal plants will have to be phased out or replaced with new ones equipped with carbon capture and storage, the IEA says.

Action is being taken on this now with the government recently announcing plans to close old, inefficient coal fuelled power plants and replace them with modern high efficiency technology.

With so many wind energy opportunities, it's no wonder so many older coal - fired power plants are economically uncompetitive.

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).

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

(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 oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an «at - risk» of closure portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal - fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts.

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.

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

that in 2010, «Construction did not begin on a single new coal - fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year,» with plans for 38 new plants dropped and even more older plants scheduled for retirement.

The new coal plants (per the German government) have been long planned to replace very old and low efficiency units with new coal units which are approaching ~ 50 % efficiency.

Less than a year since the Paris Agreement, and with investment in renewables in the EU falling behind the US and China, the Commission thinks now is the moment to weaken key elements of the EU's renewable energy framework and open the door to subsidies for old coal plants?

Older coal plants will continue to be hamstrung by the cost of complying with non-climate pollution rules (such as the ozone air quality standards), plus the perhaps even lower price of natural gas.

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.

The scheme was one of two emergency schemes first introduced last year to help cope with Britain's tightening power margins, as old coal plants are closed down and not replaced.

In this webinar from June 9, 2016, Synapse's Senior Associate Patrick Luckow and Senior Associate Pat Knight discuss scenarios in which United States electric sector CO2 emissions could decline by 30 percent by 2030 driven largely by these new realities, combined with economic retirements of older coal plants.

There is substantial variation across coal - fired power plants, however, especially in terms of air - quality related emissions, with damages typically greater for older plants and less for newer ones.

Here's a thought: instead of focussing on burying millions of tons of emitted carbon, how about retiring old coal fired plants and replacing them with renewable energy, and using the billions of R&D dollars for CCS to support clean and green renewable energy projects across the country?