Sentences with phrase «plant closures by»

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

Windsor endured years of layoffs and plant closures by GM, Ford and Chrysler.

Not exact matches

The report, conducted by DOE staff, said that continued closure of baseload plants puts areas of the country at greater risk of power outages.

As for the workers affected by the closure of the Gunsan plant, they will be sent to other plants.

Sales snap back after a difficult February plagued by lower aerospace production and temporary auto plant closures.

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Farmers are still continuing to seek a resolution to the proposed closure of the Tullos milk processing plant, in Aberdeen, by Muller UK & Ireland.

His administration is on a fast track to close that plant by 2021, and his top energy officials testified at a hearing on the proposed Indian Point closure earlier in the month.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

Paving the way for Indian Point's termination, the state Legislature last month passed legislation making it easier to site new nuclear plants, which conceivably might be needed to replace power lost by Indian Point's closure.

State officials argued that nuclear plant closures would prompt an increase in fossil fuel generation, in conflict with Cuomo's goal to reduce carbon emmissions 40 percent by 2030.

If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to work toward the plant's closure.

That's one possible outcome of the looming Indian Point nuclear power plant closure, which the Cuomo administration earlier this year said would happen by 2021.

The letter hews more or less to the same script as previous missives sent by elected officials — including AG Andrew Cuomo — noting the plant's closure is harming not only the 305 workers involved, but also the economy of the entire region.

To lessen the economic impact on workers at the plant, Cuomo has floated a potential transition into the renewable energy sector for workers laid off by the plant's closure.

Murphy says he was upset by what he did not hear regarding the closure by 2021 of Indian Point nuclear power plant, in his 40th state Senate District.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Supporters of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County are planning a rally Monday to show support for the facility, which is under review for possible closure by its owner, Entergy Corp..

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

The government, said Major, welcomes steps by Central and Eastern European countries to adopt energy strategies which will help them to press ahead with early closure of the older, higher - risk Soviet - designed nuclear power plants like those at Bohunice.

What I didn't know was that the housing market in the US would continue a steep decline over the next 24 months, supply would increase drastically leading to plant closures and decreased profitability, European nations would meet increased housing pressure of their own and despite a strong stance in the continued purchases by Brookfield the shares continued to decline.

Those moves, including the closure of plants, should lower its annual expenses by $ 1.7 billion, starting in 2018.

Mid-1970s Birmingham was blighted by industrial action and the closure of the Leyland car plant.

Now, a new study in Nature Energy by a young economist at Carnegie Mellon University, finds that the temporary closure of two nuclear plants in the early 1980s led directly to lower birth weights — a key indicator of poor health outcomes later in life [3].

Germany is home to the largest number of unprofitable coal plants, with potential losses avoided by early closure totalling $ 12 billion.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

The hole left by the failure of contracts - for - closure should be replaced with a new policy to close coal - fired power plants and replace them with renewable energy.

The Sierra Club lists 71 plants already scheduled for total or partial closure, most of them by 2016.

BERLIN, 23 March 2018 — Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2025.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

Several generation resources are also fully permitted and readily available to come online by 2021, after the plant's closure, including clean, renewable hydropower able to replace up to 1,000 megawatts of power.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

In the UK alone coal's share of generation fell to just 9 % in 2016 (a historic low), due to the closure of three plants last year mainly caused by the introduction of a carbon price floor.

The announced closure in early March of the Navajo coal plant, the largest in the US West, by 2019, demonstrates that coal - fired generation will still struggle going forward.

Marking the occasion, Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth Wallonia and Climaxi / Friends of the Earth Flanders marched in Antwerp, calling for the closure of Belgium's nuclear power plants, a full transition to renewables, and a just transition: good jobs for all those who would be affected by the closure of the nuclear industry.

In every recent closure of a nuclear plant, from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre, lost nucear power has been replaced almost exclusively by fossil - fueled power.

France has some quite ambitious renewable energy targets (32 % of all energy by 2030), coupled with a partial (initially 25 % by 2025) nuclear phase out policy, but progress has been a little patchy, with the nuclear closures slowed, in part due to the problems it is having with its new EPR nuclear plant at Flamanville.

Americans must understand that the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants, over 100,000 megawatts, by the Obama Administration jeopardizes the reliability of our electric power grid and the low cost of electricity.

This week, the Central Java Coal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the project.

Coal - fired generation in the UK is in freefall, and more plant closures — as expected by the government — will see this continue.

The French energy company said the lives of the Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants would be extended by five years until 2024 and the closure dates of Heysham 2 and Torness will be delayed by seven years to 2030.

Nationwide, more than 230 coal - fired plants have been closed or are slated for closure — or 44 percent of the 523 U.S. coal plants that were in operation just six years ago, by the environmental group Sierra Club's count.

Already 71 plants are scheduled for total or partial closure, most of them by 2016.

European power companies could save billions of dollars by stepping up closure of coal - fired power plants as nearly all of them will be loss - making in Europe by 2030, think - tank Carbon Tracker Initiative says.

Coal plants that have not adopted a form of carbon capture and storage by 2023 will begin to see their usage restricted, followed by complete closure in 2025.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

The recall and plant closure affected the supply of two of the RTE meats used by the franchisees of Mr. Submarine Ltd. («Mr. Sub»).

By Chris Chopik Ontario's proposed Green Energy Act is touting 50,000 jobs, the closure of coal fired plants and a prosperous future for Ontarians and Ontario industry.