Sentences with phrase «retired coal units»

The majority of those retired coal units were built between 1950 and 1970, and their an average age is 54.

The net summer capacity of the average retired coal unit was 133 megawatts (MW), compared with 278 MW for the rest of the coal units still operating.

Not exact matches

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

DUK doesn't only mention the word «cleaner» for fun; it has retired 40 older coal units, reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 29 % since 2005.

In the USA coal - fired units retired over 2010 - 12 averaged 97 MWe, and those expected to retire over 2015 - 25 average 145 MWe.

It's why China has been retiring coal plants for decades — at first in favor of ultrahigh efficiency modern supercritical coal plants that delivered twice as much power per unit of pollution produced, and now increasingly solar and wind.

Kentucky Power on Aug. 28, in a twice - yearly fuel report filed at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, was essentially making the last such report where its 800 - MW, coal - fired Big Sandy Unit 2 ran for the full period before being retired.

The coal units retired in 2015 also tended to be smaller than the rest of the coal fleet.

The coal units that were retired in 2015 were mainly built between 1950 and 1970, and the average age of those retired units was 54 years.

In addition to units currently planning to retire in 2018 or later (about 6.9 GW; 67 % coal, 20 % nuclear), there are between 108 and 118 units representing 22.9 to 30.7 GW of capacity at risk of retirement.

All coal - fired units built before 2005 are retired by 2040.

Figure 1 compares the future economics of coal units that are slated for retirement and coal units that are currently not announced to retire.

According to long - range planning documents filed in mid-April 2011 with the Public Service Commission, LG&E Energy and Kentucky Utilities Company are making initial plans to retire coal - burning units at three aging power plants by 2016, including the Cane Run Station in western Louisville, KU's Green River Generating Station in Central City in Western Kentucky, and KU's Tyrone Generating Station in Versailles, which has already been mothballed temporarily.

In the coming years, there are plans to retire the two largest coal - fired power plants in the region, as well as one of the region's nuclear units.

If no new coal plants are built and each existing unit is retired when it turns 40 years old, the 2 °C carbon budget will still be exhausted by 2040.

Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to retire all three coal - fired units of the Allen Fossil Plant (990 MW) in Memphis and approved replacement with a new 1,000 MW natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) plant.

At today's meeting, the TVA Board voted to delegate authority to TVA CEO Bill Johnson to determine the exact retirement date of the Allen coal units, which must retire by December 31, 2018 under the terms of a 2011 Consent Decree with EPA and environmental groups.

PEF plans to retire two older coal - fired units totaling 869 MW, or about 38 % of its coal capacity.

AEP will also be required to either retire the two Rockport units in 2025 and 2028, respectively, or to install additional controls designed to achieve removal of at least 98 percent of the sulfur dioxide created by the burning of coal at those units.