Sentences with phrase «require coal plants»

When regulations require coal plants to be shut down completely it is important that the timeline provides enough advance notice to allow for needed grid improvements.

All the law did was require coal plants to use them, a change that had very little impact on consumers, who were more concerned then about acid rain than they are today about global warming.

Tack on the CPP (middle map), which would require coal plants to capture some of their carbon emissions, and coal (red) cedes more territory to wind and natural gas.

The EPA has proposed a Carbon Pollution Standard for Future Power Plants, which would restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, requiring coal plants, in particular, to be more efficient and cleaner.

The policy requires coal plant owners to pay wind or solar plant owners whose energy is curtailed, adding clear economic incentives to increase uptake of renewable energy — and strengthening earlier policies that prioritized use of renewables.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

Not exact matches

When both rules are fully enforced, Bernstein Research estimates that 15 % of coal - fired power plants will be forced to close — unable to meet new safety standards — or will require substantial new investment to remain viable.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

These 75 plants will require about 40,000 new coal cars.

Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new coal plants to pump almost double that level of carbon emissions,

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

In their comments, activists said that while H.B. 2004 requires «unit - specific» standards for coal plants, that does not prohibit carbon emissions trading.

But opponents, including Morrisey and members of West Virginia's Legislature who crafted H.B. 2004, argue that EPA legally can only require specific changes to make coal plants run more efficiently.

«If the [Clean Power Plan] is implemented in West Virginia, credits or allowances will be required for coal plants to continue to operate,» said Longview Power LLC, which boasts it owns the cleanest coal plant in the state, during a December presentation.

The EPA rules require new and existing coal - and oil - fired plants to reduce air pollutants — including mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid, among others — by 2015.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

Some experts say that coal - fired plants can only become truly clean if the government and industry pump billions of dollars into the technological upgrades required to extract the carbon dioxide gas created during combustion and sequester it semipermanently deep underground.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

In addition to the coal waste, the team is working with marginal soils, such as those in desert climates, which normally require large amounts of water and chemical fertilisers in order for plants to grow.

Whereas solar or wind farms have few negative environmental side effects, they require more space and produce less energy than environmentally unfriendly coal plants.

Representative Rob Bishop (R — UT), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, earlier this spring floated the idea that EPA should be required to engage in formal consultations with FWS over the impact of the power plant regulations, which could force some of these coal plants to close.

As the second - biggest coal - fired facility west of the Mississippi, Colstrip's power plant could be affected by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by 2030.

As rumored, EPA will require that all new natural gas - fired plants emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour, and coal plants no more than 1,100 pounds per megawatt - hour.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

«The only additional required explanation, clearly stated in my testimony, is that coal - fired power plants that capture and sequester the CO2 are consistent with preserving creation, life on the planet as we know it, but the required technology is not yet ready.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

In a widely cited study on «The Future of Coal,» M.I.T. experts said that an enormous increase in investment in industrial - scale demonstration plants would be required now even to know in 10 or 15 years if the technology can work at a meaningful scale.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

EPA Sues Louisiana Coal - Fired Power Plant to Install Required Pollution Controls, Seeks Civil Damages

To approximate our current coal generation capacity would require increasing the global complement of nuclear plants from some 500 to at least 4,000 units.

That would require adding roughly 1,000 gigawatts of renewable and nuclear generation capacity — about equivalent to all of China's coal burning plants today.

-- Of those 274 coal plants, more than one - third are not required to monitor or report discharges of these toxic metals to government agencies or to the public.

which the bill detractors prefer serves to protect the status quo, which includes the messy business of oil and coal recovery and the laziness of auto manufacturers; in addition, sequestration would require REGULATIONS in order for power plants to adopt it.

Coal plants will have to meet these standards by 2021, which will require 70 % of existing capacity to install expensive new technologies.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

The limits are so low, in fact, that they essentially require new coal plants to be built with a technology that has yet to be deployed in the power industry: carbon capture and sequestration.

«An unknown amount of wood will be required for co-firing in coal plants, with estimates for Ohio alone, where the State's Public Utilities Commission has approved over 2,100 MW of biomass power, of about 20 million tons of wood required for fuel annually»

TVA spokesman Mike Bradley said TVA's coal - fired plants have water discharge permits that require them to meet «stringent water quality standards to protect water quality in our service areas.»

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

«There's a new sheriff in town,» agrees Salon's Andrew Leonard, pointing out that last week the Obama EPA started its own lawsuit over a coal power plant upgrade in Kansas that allegedly failed to add in required pollution controls.

It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.

This includes support for policies that: (1) require the installation and operation of state - of - the - art air pollution control technologies and (2) encourage conversion to cleaner energy resources and / or permanent retirement of coal - fired power plants.

In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

Gasifying the coal and capturing the CO2 before combustion was not an option; that would have required an entirely new plant like Kemper.

The report says that many coal - fired plants are not required to limit toxic metal discharges because of lax regulations last updated in 1982.

Biocoal replaces ordinary coal without requiring major refits of coal - fired power plants.