Not exact matches
Since 2000, coal - fired
power generation capacity has grown by nearly 900 gigawatts (GW), but net
additions from today to 2040 are only 400 GW and many of these are plants already under construction.
A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net
power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel -
powered generation.
The Clean
Power Plan has a significant effect on projected retirements and
additions of electric
generation capacity (Figures 7 and 8; Tables 3 and 4).
The Clean
Power Plan also has implications for electric
generation capacity, both in terms of
additions and retirements.
Under favorable natural gas supply conditions, the Clean
Power Plan also increases
additions of
generation capacity fueled by natural gas (CPPHOGR).
Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of
capacity additions (what electric generating
capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations);
generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm
power prices, energy prices,
capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI
power grids.