Sentences with phrase «reliant on a coal»

That's an impressive gain, to be sure, especially for a miner heavily reliant on coal, but to really understand that advance you have to go back to the middle of June, when the company updated its coal production guidance.

But Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei are all more than 90 percent reliant on coal for energy, Tsinghua's research showed.

Coal - producing states, along with states reliant on coal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed plan.

A fundamental shift is taking place in China's economy - away from heavy industries primarily reliant on coal to more service - orientated, sustainable activities.

Now climate research has become entwined with energy policy and the brutal politics of fossil fuels, in which states» stances largely are shaped by the presence or absence of coal or industries reliant on coal or oil for profits.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter, heavily reliant on coal and resources industries have very strong political influence.

Of course, in the same way that Jevons could not see the ability for oil, gas, and nuclear power to render us less fundamentally reliant on coal, I am sure we are making equally egregious errors in our predictions of energy transitions (or at least some of us are).

In energy systems heavily reliant on coal (as in China and India), where renewable alternatives are less readily available (notably in some industrial sectors), or where seasonal flexibility is required to integrate high shares of variable renewables, gas plays an important role.

This is particularly so for resource companies that are heavily or exclusively reliant on coal like Peabody.

24 October 2014Last updated at 02:19 ET Poland, heavily reliant on coal, fears the cost of lower CO2 emissions will harm its economy EU leaders have reached a landmark deal to cut greenhouse emissions by 40 % by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

It is recognised that this will be a large step for countries heavily reliant on coal, but a necessary step requiring careful management.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

The reason I ask is that utility companies, including those reliant on coal plants, are allowed to recover capital costs, in the form of rate increases to their customers.

JAKARTA — Indonesia, the world's fifth - biggest carbon emitter, has significantly scaled back its electricity output plans to boost the share of renewables, but will remain heavily reliant on coal.

Regulators and utilities in states reliant on coal power throughout the nation are already scrambling to figure out how to meet their state's emissions goals while still ensuring reliable electric service.

Rocky Mountain Power, and the state of Utah as a whole, are still going to be heavily reliant on coal power.

Provinces still heavily reliant on coal would be allowed some flexibility if similar emissions reductions can be achieved elsewhere, or if they get serious about Carbon Capture and Storage.

Not exact matches

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

«We have an economy that is deeply reliant on fossil fuel resources such as coal, but we are getting religion.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

And the view is that carbon taxes will punish those utilities most heavily reliant on conventional coal - fired plants.

In an effort to derail action on carbon emissions, coal - reliant states have also banded together to sue the EPA on the grounds that it lacks jurisdiction to impose carbon reductions.

Modi, who stormed to power at May elections pledging to reform the economy, said he was determined to meet the energy needs of India, which suffers regular blackouts and is heavily reliant on polluting coal to produce electricity.

Depending on the resources that your utility uses to produce energy — many are still reliant fossil fuels like coal — the impact of your decision to go solar could be very significant.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

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

Meanwhile, Butler was quoted this morning as saying that moving more rapidly to a market price for carbon — which will effectively bring the Australian price down to European prices, where efforts to strengthen climate policy and the carbon price have been thwarted by coal - reliant Poland, would have an impact on the budget but would also be complex.

Without forward - looking policies, coal plant closings could result in some states becoming overly reliant on natural gas.

54 % of coal is cashflow negative today increasing to 97 % by 2030 — making units reliant on lobbying to secure capacity market payments (which the European Commission wants to prohibit by 2025) and avoid air pollution regulations.

Bonds fought the Bush administration on a number of fronts as then - President Bush continued to support a national energy plan that was far too reliant on continued coal production.

The state has been reducing its dependence on coal and oil for electricity generation, but in the process has become heavily reliant on natural gas.

China and the U.S. are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) in absolute terms on annual basis, both are heavily reliant coal for power and imported petroleum for transportation fuel and other non-transportation uses and both have had (and continue) to build continental - wide energy infrastructure to support a large population.

No doubt the same thing is happening along much of the west coast of Canada, which is why China's sanctioning of coal to liquid technology to produce transportation fuel is directly significant to North Americans, and why it is so important to help China become more reliant on efficient processes and products.

China is becoming increasingly reliant (more than the US) on imported fossil fuels, whether it is coal from Australia or oil from the Middle East / GuIf.

New England has become increasingly reliant on natural gas and renewable energy, stemming from state and federal policies to shutter coal and oil power plants.