Sentences with phrase «operating coal units»

Based on company reports and including member state phase - out policies, only 27 % of operating coal units in the EU are planning to close before 2030.

Some utilities are currently playing down this reality by not including the all - in costs associated with operating coal units.

[ii] As detailed in Figure 5, the anticipated cost of operating coal units in the US increases significantly from the current operating costs in Figure 3.

Figure 1 details the fuel cost of every operating coal unit in the US.

Not exact matches

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Opponents call Clean Power Plan «illegal» Power company Dominion, which operates three coal - fired units subject to the Clean Power Plan in West Virginia, recommended that the state develop a carbon - cutting plan that uses interstate trading.

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.

The figure below shows the operating cost of coal units in Colorado.

Historically, coal and nuclear generation units supplied most of the baseload power demand in the United States partly because of their low fuel - related operating costs.

The net summer capacity of the average retired coal unit was 133 megawatts (MW), compared with 278 MW for the rest of the coal units still operating.

Murray Energy Corporation and its Subsidiary Companies employ approximately 6,000 Americans and currently operate thirteen active coal mines, consisting of eleven underground longwall mining systems and forty - six continuous mining units in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Utah, and West Virginia.

To bring a coal fired thermal unit to at least mid load or better operating level can take up to twelve hours or more from a cold start.

Many coal - fired units all over the world currently operate at efficiencies well below 30 %.

If a US coal unit installs control technologies to meet the most stringent air pollution regulation, it could increase operating costs by 13 % when the capacity factor declines from 60 % to 40 %.

The operating costs of coal units vary depending on numerous factors.

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.

Dangjin city already has the world's largest operating coal plants now (10 units 6,040 mw).

This is particularly true in the Southeast where most coal units operate at a higher cost than cleaner energy options, causing them to fail our economic stress test.»

For example, the number of people living close to an operating coal plant — which is made up of individual coal units — plummeted in the last decade.

Power market reforms, in combination with the national ETS, could strand coal units with higher operating costs by promoting least cost units and low carbon generation.

CAVT forecasts the costs for individual coal units to comply with environmental regulations, adds them to other operating and management costs, and then compares these costs to electricity market prices.