Sentences with phrase «remaining coal capacity»

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.

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My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

International markets remain outstanding in the Pacific Rim, with China and India coal import demand continuing at record rates and developed economies running at higher capacity factors as they recover from the global financial crisis.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

Increasingly strict controls on total coal capacity and power plant emissions are expected to prompt the retirement of up to 20 GW of older plants and spur technological upgrades to China's remaining 1,000 GW of coal power.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

Several details remain unknown, but the median bid for wind plus storage appears to be lower than the operating cost of all coal plants currently in Colorado, while the median solar plus storage bid could be lower than 74 % of operating coal capacity.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

To prevent coal subsidies causing chaos in other EU countries, the European Commission proposed a CO2 threshold of 550 grams per KWh of electricity to be eligible for receiving capacity payments (public money to remain online).

Announced reforms to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, along with a proposal to impose CO2 limits on fossil fuel power plants that are eligible to receive capacity market payments to remain operating, will limit the ability for coal generation to regain lost market share.

While prices for electricity from renewable sources have fallen sharply in recent years, coal remains the cheapest source of power, and India's coal industry has embarked on a building boom, doubling installed capacity since 2008.

Wind energy overtakes coal as the EU's second largest form of power capacity but concerns remain over politicians» enthusiasm for renewables, reports the Guardian

He managed to find a note of optimism in the more efficient coal power fleet that will remain after 68,000 MW of old capacity retires by 2020, under pressure from various regulations and competition from natural gas.

Our energy is very expensive and because the EU has forced us to close down coal fired power stations etc, we are very very close to the total remainng energy capacity of our remaining power stations.

After 2040, coal capacity would need to emit no carbon to remain consistent with the 2 °C budget.