Sentences with phrase «older coal units»

DUK doesn't only mention the word «cleaner» for fun; it has retired 40 older coal units, reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 29 % since 2005.

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... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

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

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

Newer vintage natural gas - fired units operate at higher efficiency than older, fossil - fired units, which increases the competitiveness of natural gas relative to coal.

Some older coal - fired generators were retrofitted with various environmental controls (see chart for data on installations of one type of control, the flue gas desulfurization unit, also called FGD or scrubber).

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.

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years unit approximately 40 years old.

Natural gas combined - cycle units operate at higher efficiency than do older, coal - fired units, which increases the competitiveness of natural gas relative to coal.

Many of the coal units weren't simply old; they also couldn't comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's tougher rules for mercury and toxic air emissions, which went into effect last April.

The company is studying what to do with other older coal - fired units in light of the soot regulations, tightening restrictions on the disposal of coal ash and new limits on emissions of mercury and other toxics that are pending.

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.

If no new coal plants are built and each existing unit is retired when it turns 40 years old, the 2 °C carbon budget will still be exhausted by 2040.

Alabama Power, taking advantage of a drop in the price for natural gas, already has announced that it plans to convert older coal - fired units at the Shelby County plant to gas, which burns far cleaner than coal.

Building new super critical coal boilers to replace older units would also reduce GHG emissions by 30 % or more.

PEF plans to retire two older coal - fired units totaling 869 MW, or about 38 % of its coal capacity.