Sentences with phrase «reduce coal capacity»
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However, the Newcastle port operator's decision to introduce a quota system to allocate transport chain capacity and reduce the ship queue is one illustration that provides clear evidence that a shortage of transport capacity is limiting the industry's ability to meet strong growth in coal demand.
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The study explored strategies to reduce stranded capacity in coal power plants, while limiting future climate change to the internationally agreed 2 °C target.
The efforts to reduce air pollution in China range from the seemingly minor — asking residents to refrain from using coal stoves and furnaces in their homes — to the massive — scaling back steel production capacity by an additional 50 million tons.
Shifting the region's forecast coal capacity in 2035 from the current mix to ultra-supercritical would reduce cumulative emissions by 1.3 billion tonnes.
Over the longer term, a larger and more liquid LNG market can compensate for reduced flexibility elsewhere in the energy system (for example, lower fuel - switching capacity in some countries as coal - fired generation is retired).
With their utilization reduced, and thus their capacity factor lowered, coal and natural gas plants become more expensive to run, as Bloomberg reported in 2015.
You mention that replacing new coal - fired electrical generation capacity with nuclear fission is a no - cost approach to reducing CO2 emissions.
Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel
Already, the impact of reduced demand, growing renewables, and rooftop solar, is causing a decline in output in coal generation, bringing capacity factors down sharply, particularly for black coal generators.
To reduce its dependence on imported coal (coal - fired plants account for 57 % of India's installed capacity) India is making favorable progress in introducing renewable energy power facilities.
The reduced coal and increased solar create potential shortages in ramping capacity between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. if energy storage is not available, the report notes — the «duck curve» problem identified in California and on other systems with high solar penetrations.
We've already seen in Australia how rooftop solar, improved efficiency, and a low carbon price have reduced demand for grid electricity resulted in the shutdown of gigawatts of coal power and the shelving of plans for new gas capacity.
About 250 megawatts of the coal capacity will get CCS, reducing emissions by about 1.4 million tonnes a year.
CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.
The new power link will supply enough capacity to meet the annual power consumption needs of over 10 million people, and will significantly help reduce coal consumption in the region, thus mitigating intense carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions.
«Santee Cooper will use the large reserve capacity to... reduce its reliance on coal - fired power plants,» South Carolina's The State reported last week.
If policymakers and the plant's investors restart construction, the plant would likely reduce the share of electricity the state receives from coal from 21 percent in 2016 to 3 percent, allowing the retirement of most or all of the remaining coal capacity.
Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.
Demand reduced slightly, and we are expecting to see more [retirements of older coal and oil capacity].»
Dr. Staffell added that while the switch from coal - fired power plants to natural gas is not «a long term solution,» it is «an important step to start reducing emissions quickly and at minimal cost» and could allow time to develop the «required renewable energy capacity to permanently cut global carbon emissions.»
In EPA's «base case» for the CPP, the agency assumed that in 2016, almost 20 percent of coal capacity would disappear even if the rule were not adopted, reducing coal generation to 214 gigawatts (GW).
全球煤电产能大减 中国贡献最大 (Global coal power capacity greatly reduced — greatest contribution to China) emoney.cn September 7, 2016
Since 2000, the EU has added a net 84,000 megawatts of wind while reducing coal and nuclear power capacity by a net 10,000 and 14,000 megawatts, respectively.