Sentences with phrase «old power station»

It said these countries should immediately promise to stop building new coal plants and to accelerate the closure of old power stations.

Coal fired power will only be replaced as old power stations are retired or coal becomes too expensive due to export demand.

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.

Even 70 year old power stations belching black smoke will smell sweet.

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK Nuclear Industry Association, said: «Building new nuclear capacity in west Cumbria is an integral part of the UK being able to replace old power stations, keeping a balanced mix as carbon emissions are reduced.

In fact, new coal - fired power capacity additions in 2017 were the lowest in at least nine years (see figure, below), with official reports indicating capacity actually dropping for four consecutive months during the year, as older power stations have been retired.

Under the streets around the old power station, its giant copper cables have been joined by a new web of fibre - optics.

As Morris takes over the reins of an old power station, McCrory takes the reins, temporarily, of Tramway, a former tram depot that is now one of Glasgow's largest contemporary visual and performing arts venues.

On the occasion of his solo exhibition within the framework of the festival Sommer.Frische.Kunst in Bad Gastein (Austria) we met with the artist at the old power station of the town.

AGL proposes to close this old power station.

Older power stations, such as Torrens Island in South Australia, are similar to coal - fired power stations.

In the near future, as older power stations are taken off - line, nuclear's share of global electricity production will fall precipitously unless new plants are built.

The amount that generating capacity exceeds peak demand, known as the «capacity margin», is already shrinking in the UK, as older power stations are decommissioned without new generation being created at the same rate.

In September 2017 the Liddell power station was again in the news when the Turnbull Government discussed its aim of keeping the old power station going for five years past the date at which AGL proposed to close it down.

This is an old power station, commissioned between 1971 and 1973.

From the looks of the photographs brought back by Mark Obstfeld, a British photographer who visited the vacant building, the imagination still reigns supreme at the site of the old power station.

If the Turnbull Coalition government was to use taxpayer's money to reopen this old power station it would have to be one of the most unethical acts ever by an Australian government (at least since Liberal PM John Howard got Australia involved in the Iraq War) and Australia would be even more an international climate - inaction pariah than it already is.

The Malaysian - backed Battersea Power Station Development Company bought the old power station in 2012 and has since enlisted the help of Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly to transform the derelict site into an ultra luxurious complex.

As the first brand ever, ferm LIVING opened the gates to the unique facilities at the old power station at Bremerholm in central Copenhagen