Sentences with phrase «replace coal generators»

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So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

When they replace our coal power with with junk wind and solar there is a really good chance our ACs won't work, unless we all put in fossil fuel powered generators.

If we really want to cut emissions, we need to replace coal (a baseload generator) with a zero emissions baseload generator.

Electricity generators have chosen natural gas for its affordability and reliability, often replacing coal - fired power plants and emitting up to 56 percent less greenhouse gases than coal for the same amount of electricity.

After analyzing the costs of retrofitting existing coal plants with stricter pollution controls, the coalition proposed replacing several aging coal plants with natural gas generators.

The technology vendor battles continue as GE has pledged to surpass the 65 % efficiency mark in coming years as generators increasingly look to CCGT plants to replace coal, reduce emissions, and ensure grid stability.

States like Alabama, Maryland, Michigan, and Wisconsin could each save more than 250 billion gallons of water withdrawals a year by replacing uncompetitive coal generators with renewable energy.

The so called Renewable Energy technologies such as Wind and Solar even if further refined and made more efficient, sought after efficiency increases that are now running into the problems of ever diminishing returns for the investments needed to raise those levels of efficiency, are now just one of the limiting factors in the hope of the so called Renewable Energy systems ever replacing today's base load coal, gas, oil, nuclear powered generators.

As well, the legislation does not include mandates to replace retired coal generators with renewable energy technologies.

Generation from natural gas and renewables has accelerated to replace the rapid and unprecedented retirement of coal - fired generators.