Sentences with phrase «only coal generators»
Our working paper includes several variations of the proposal, including a 10 - year lifespan for the policy instead of 25, policies that support only coal generators or only nuclear, and policies that only guarantee recovery of the costs of continued operation («going - forward» costs) rather than guaranteeing profits.
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But nobody wants to own or run coal and gas generators if they can only make money out of them for a few hours on a few days.
NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.
The fuel, a particularly costly and dirty energy source whose carbon dioxide emissions are second only to burning coal, lit up four antiquated generators on an island where power outages are common.
On current gas price expectations, a CO2 price of only $ 5 per ton would be sufficient to make new gas - fired generators as economical as new coal - fired plants, based on the present value of fixed and variable costs.
The ESOO document notes that only four new plants have come on line in the past financial year — the 67MW Oaklands Hill wind farm in Victoria and the 53MW Hallett 5 wind farm in South Australia, along with the first 566MW stage of the Mortlake gas peaking plant in Victoria and a 60MW upgrade to the Eraring coal - fired generator in NSW.
On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.
Over the next three years, utilities plan to build only eight new coal - fired generators compared with 91 new gas - fired generators, according to the EIA.
Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.