Sentences with phrase «retiring coal capacity»

Nearly half of the 2015 retired coal capacity was located in three states — Ohio, Georgia, and Kentucky — and those states each retired at least 10 % of their coal capacity in 2015.

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Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

Thirty - three gigawatts of coal capacity are retired and only 14 gigawatts of new coal capacity already under construction are completed.

Gigawatts of new coal capacity coming online, compared to gigawatts of retired coal.

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

Over the longer term, a larger and more liquid LNG market can compensate for reduced flexibility elsewhere in the energy system (for example, lower fuel - switching capacity in some countries as coal - fired generation is retired).

By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.

The report said a net 35 GW of coal - fired generation capacity came online in 2017, as 67 GW of new capacity was commissioned but 32 GW was retired.

Replacing coal with nuclear as coal plants are retired and new capacity is needed makes economic sense, as long as nuclear is cheaper.

Almost 9.3 gigawatts of coal - fired capacity have been retired in the past three years on the PJM grid, being replaced by 8.7 gigawatts of gas - fired capacity in that period.

Meanwhile, nearly 42,000 MW of synchronous generating capacity (coal, nuclear, and natural gas) retired between 2011 and 2014.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

Other states that traditionally have had high levels of coal - fired electricity generation, such as Indiana, West Virginia, and Virginia, each retired at least one GW of coal capacity in 2015.

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.

In addition, regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed at improving air quality have contributed to the retirement of coal capacity (over 50 gigawatts (GW) of coal capacity has been retired since 2002 with retirements in recent years partially due to regulations).

The amount of coal capacity retired in 2015 was about 4.6 % of the nation's coal capacity at the beginning of that year.

About 30 % of the coal capacity that retired in 2015 occurred in April, which is when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule went into effect.

Over the next three years, more than 6,000 MW of fuel - secure coal - fueled generating capacity in PJM are expected to retire.

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.

As in past years, utilities all across the nation indicate they expect to continue retiring coal - fired generation, and virtually no one expects to add more coal capacity to their systems in the next decade.

The analysis identified 51 gigawatts (GW) of coal - fired generating capacity that is slated to retire or convert to another fuel (mostly natural gas) through 2030.

In the end, they ended up retiring an amount of coal capacity roughly proportional to the lost demand from California.

In Texas, a state with plenty of gas and solar capacity, nearly 10 GW of coal are expected to be retired by 2031, even before any consideration of the Clean Power Plan.

In fact, new coal - fired power capacity additions in 2017 were the lowest in at least nine years (see figure, below), with official reports indicating capacity actually dropping for four consecutive months during the year, as older power stations have been retired.

The system succeeded in meeting this demand, but the way it did so, through increased use of conventional energy, and in spite of mediocre to poor performance from renewables, has raised serious questions about the country's ability to withstand similar shocks in the future, when much conventional capacity, mostly coal, will have retired without replacement.

The US is expected to see anything from 13 gigawatts of coal capacity to 23 gigawatts retired this year because of air quality rules.

However, existing pipelines do not have enough capacity to meet growing demand, particularly when coal - fired and nuclear power plants are being prematurely retired.

He managed to find a note of optimism in the more efficient coal power fleet that will remain after 68,000 MW of old capacity retires by 2020, under pressure from various regulations and competition from natural gas.

CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.

So far, more than 45,000 MW of coal - fired generating capacity in ISO / RTO regions have retired, and owners have announced intentions to retire an additional 17,000 MW over the next three years.

The 50 GW of planned coal could push national coal capacity factors as low as 50 %, just as gigawatts of cheap renewables come online, meaning unless new plants replace retiring capacity they could come online as stranded assets.

In the United States, renewables are set to provide 69 per cent of new capacity by 2021, as dozens of coal plants are retired.

Conventional steam coal comprised more than 80 percent of the electricity generation capacity retired in the U.S. last year.

The amount of coal capacity retired last year represents nearly 5 percent of total U.S. coal capacity.

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

Nearly 16 GW of generating capacity is expected to retire in 2015, 81 % of which (12.9 GW) is coal - fired generation.

In 2012 alone, 10.2 GW of coal - fired capacity was retired, representing 3.2 % of the 2011 total.

Coal is not built at all, but gas enjoys a boom in the middle of next decade to also cope with summer peak demand, and to replace 6.2 GW of retired capacity.

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