Sentences with phrase «plant emissions difficult»

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

Not exact matches

If all the planned coal plants are built, it will «be difficult for us to meet our emissions reduction goals,» Minister of the Environment Masaharu Nakagawa noted earlier this year.

But in every instance, the nuclear plant closures have led to higher emissions and electricity prices, pointing out a difficult truth.

Another issue is the lack of emission credits in the South Coast Air Quality Management District that makes it difficult to obtain the necessary permits to build reliable replacement power before aging, less - efficient power plants can be retired or repowered.