Sentences with phrase «other coal utilities»

Southern and other coal utilities invest millions of dollars into subverting regulations.

Not exact matches

Some observers, including utility officials and stock analysts, expect that unless market conditions improve the PSC may get requests for similar agreements from other Upstate nuclear or coal plants.

Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science of climate change!

See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

Of course, the situation would be very different if coal - burning utilities all had cleansers or other means to strip carbon dioxide from their emissions.

Yet, very few people outside of the industries involved know the names of corporate leaders in the coal, oil, utility, automobile, and media industries, among others.

The opinion editors and writers of The Wichita Eagle have chosen a novel format — Web video — to strike back at the coal company and utility that paid for ads in The Eagle and other Kansas newspapers this week attacking Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for denying permits for two coal - burning power plants.

I'd like to repeat my thought from the other day that Dot Earth should do a thread focused on the oil industry, another focused on the coal industry, and another focused on the utility industry.

The consensus estimate in the private sector is that the utility rule and eight others on the EPA docket will force the retirement of 60 out of the country's current 340 gigawatts of coal - fired capacity.»

Other states (Oregon, Washington and Minnesota, another 6 % of U.S. GDP) have banned their utilities from signing new power purchase agreements with coal plants.

Utilities can't do much to stop this other than drop coal or lobby governments and hope they will bail them out.»

Other programs that provide economic support for coal include federal and state tax breaks, the Rural Utilities Service loan guarantee program, research on new combustion technologies by the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior's coal leasing program.

California, Oregon, Washington and other states across the nation are forcing utilities to consider the additional cost of curbing carbon dioxide emissions in proposed coal - based generation, due to increasing pressure to address climate change.

Utilities in New England and the Midwest had trouble getting enough natural gas and other heating oils to customers, meaning the regions would have suffered from brownouts or even blackouts if coal power did not come online to pick up the slack.

Implementing those regulations along with other EPA regulations — such as the utility MACT rule, Cross State Air Pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards — would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult, while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.

Coal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourCoal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourcoal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

In contrast to most other coal databases, the GCEL is not limited to coal miners and coal - based utilities, but also lists over 200 so - called «service» companies.

This leaves coal producers increasingly reliant on a utility market that has many other (and cleaner) options for generating electricity.

As coal loses favor to natural gas and other alternatives, utilities will retire a significant portion of their coal fleet and invest substantially in other energy resources around the...

«I'd let them stand on their own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sources, and let utilities make real - time market decisions on those types of things as opposed to being propped up by tax incentives and other types of credits that occur, both in the federal level and state level.»

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

And many don't trust utility and grid operators because they believe they're tied in too deep with coal and other brown power interests, the Koch brothers, or some other boogie - man.

Like many other utilities around the country that are facing ever - tightening federal emission limits, Dominion is shifting away from coal and embracing wind power in addition to its already large stake in natural gas.

The Edison Institute represents the nation's investor owned utilities, in other words the guys who own all that coal fired base load power.

The refundable tax credits were intended to make Virginia coal cheaper for utilities to buy, and thus more competitive with coal mined in other states.

And indication that other utility sources such as coal and gas are over subsidized by society.

Other individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the utility and coal industry, include

Other individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the utility and coal industry, include Brian McCormack (formerly of the Edison Electric Institute), David Banks (former lobbyist for Exelon), Mark Menezes (former lobbyist for Southern Company and other utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy ReseaOther individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the utility and coal industry, include Brian McCormack (formerly of the Edison Electric Institute), David Banks (former lobbyist for Exelon), Mark Menezes (former lobbyist for Southern Company and other utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Reseaother utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research).

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

As we reached the record low gas prices of 2012, other utilities had to ask questions they had never contemplated before: Were they holding coal assets that were now a lot more expensive than their value?

In addition to the plants abandoned by PacifiCorp and Idaho Power Company, it is likely that other utilities around the United States have eliminated coal plants from their long - term planning rosters without public announcement.

Ohio - based AEP owns and operates more coal - fired plants than any other U.S. utility.

In 2017, about 4,015 billion kilowatthours (kWh)(or 4.01 trillion kWh) of electricity were generated at utility - scale facilities in the United States.1 About 63 % of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases).

Several of the most coal - dependent utilities have endorsed the House bill, but the coal coalition has not — it wants caps on the price of emission permits, among other amendments.

That's because the bill gives utilities a financial incentive to keep burning coal by joining the cap - and - trade system — a kind of marketplace where polluters could reduce their emissions on paper by buying pollution reductions created by others.

Duke and other major coal utility clients work with Holmstead, his firm and ERCC in the same fashion that Southern Company does.

13The amount of coal distributed by State of origin and State of destination is reported on Form EIA - 6, «Coal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility coal by rcoal distributed by State of origin and State of destination is reported on Form EIA - 6, «Coal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility coal by rCoal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility coal by rcoal by rank.