Sentences with phrase «remaining coal fired power station»

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Belgium has become the latest country to shut down its last remaining coal - fired power station, Langerlo.

As we're gettng rid of our coal fired and nuclear power stations what is our advanced industrialised country supposed to use to power our indusries and how do we remain competitive against other countries paying lip service to the environment including your own

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.

It would take until 2057 for Australia's 16 remaining coal - fired power stations to reach the end of their working life, with four slated to shut in the next decade.

Much of this reduction is due to far less use of the state's only remaining coal - fired power station, the Northern, which, as of 2013, was being run for only the warmer half of each year.

Kilroot and Eggborough coal - fired power stations have announced plans to close in May and September 2018, leaving seven coal plants remaining in the UK.

Now that renewable energy sources like solar and PV are cheaper than new coal - fired power stations in most jurisdictions (anywhere with either favorable conditions or a reasonable carbon price), the big remaining question is that of supply variability / intermittency.

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.