Sentences with phrase «replacing coal plants»

From a purely pragmatic standpoint, replacing coal plants with renewable energy is looking more and more like a no - brainer.

To make any difference with nuclear you first have to replace the retiring reactors and then start building ones that can start replacing coal plants.

Only outright contraction of the world's economy is going to suffice [note: A strong commitment to replacing coal plants with nuclear might be a partial solution, but it will never happen because the people calling for CO2 controls are the same ones who shut down our nuclear programs.

I, for one, along with Laura and many others do battle with uninformed people who for the most part assume that IWT's are a pathway to saving the planet, replacing coal plants and reducing CO2 emissions.

Much like countries across the globe are doing today, Mexico began replacing coal plants with natural gas plants and importing as much fuel from the U.S. as possible.

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

Today's renewables are simply too expensive and too unreliable to quickly and cheaply replace coal plants and power the world.

According to Reuters, «The plan gives states multiple options to achieve their emission targets, such as improving power plant heat rates; using more natural gas plants to replace coal plants; ramping up zero - carbon energy, such as solar or nuclear; and increasing energy efficiency.

On the other hand, renewables are getting cheaper, and although it might not be practical to replace all coal plants with renewables immediately, it's definitely possible to do so in the next decade if renewables continue to fall in price.

If we replace coal plants with nukes, we create a lot of jobs and we have a lot of relatively inexpensive energy.

As a result, building out natural gas — or so - called «cleaner» fuel options — to replace coal plants would have a near indistinguishable impact on global warming over the next century.

Not exact matches

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?

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

If SolarCity succeeds, clean power will replace dirty energy, spelling the end of the coal - and natural - gas - burning power plants.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

Numerous peers to Berkshire's MidAmerican have established plans to replace their coal - fired plants — including Calpine Corporation, Progress Energy, and Xcel Energy.

Also, if newer greener energy technologies can reasonably replace our baseline power needs from coal - fired power plants then coal demand will decline further.

A 2013 NRG Research Group poll found that 68 percent of Albertans want coal plants phased out or shut down and replaced with natural gas and renewable energy, the report said.

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

Under Cuomo, coal - burning power plants have been converted to natural gas, and the administration's plan to replace the potential loss of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of power involves new or repowered plants with natural gas.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

«A specific difference is that in the near future, the United States can replace its traditional coal [use] by power generation plants using gas, but China can not.

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

And part of that plan is simply shuttering small, inefficient coal plants and replacing them with larger ones, meaning the abundance of new coal power plants will actually help clear the air somewhat.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal - fired power plants.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

For the reduction to occur, U.S. plants would need to replace the exported coal with natural gas.

But no operating coal - to - liquid plants exist in the U.S., and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimate it will cost $ 70 billion to build enough plants to replace 10 percent of American gasoline consumption.

Yohe estimates the cost of achieving a more modest goal of holding warming to roughly 2 degrees C at a cost of 0.5 to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for the U.S. by 2050, thanks to the expense incurred by, for example, replacing existing coal - fired power plants with renewables or retrofitting them with carbon - capture technology.

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost - effective way, by replacing coal - fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.

Most of that change will have to take place in the developing world, whether replacing China's new coal - fired power plants or building wind, solar or geothermal facilities to power development in African countries.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

The coal industry is contracting as plants retire and utilities replace them with natural gas and renewables

Whether it's turning off a light when leaving a room or building windmills to replace coal - fired power plants, stopping global warming could be a matter of survival.

Geothermal energy is a consistent and reliable resource that is ideal for replacing baseload power sources such as polluting coal plants.

In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.

Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.

I wonder if that study takes into account that EVs and plug - in hybrids become cleaner over time as coal - fired plants are replaced with natural gas - fired plants, wind turbines, and solar plants.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

That coal gas fired power plants must be shut down by 2050 and replaced with whatever works, from nuclear, hydro, renewable, energy efficiency, and massive demand reductions across the board.