Sentences with phrase «retiring coal generation»

«When we retire coal generation and replace it with wind generation, there are not the same kinds of essential services,» Moura said.

The Michigan Public Service Commission said DTE's near - term forecasts showed a «significant near - term need for power» as it retires coal generation.

Not exact matches

As coal fired generation is retired and intermittent renewables come online, the role of gas in our energy mix will become even more vital.

More than 33 gigawatts of coal - fired electricity generation will be retired over the next couple decades, EIA said, pushing up demand for natural gas.

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.

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.

Paul Loeffelman, director of Corporate External Affairs for utility giant American Electric Power, states that the EPA's regulations will force more than 50 gigawatts of coal generation — about 300 power plants — to be retired by 2016.

The Clean Power Plan in the U.S. has that as one of its most likely outcomes and there have been explicit commitments to retire coal - fired generation plants by governments all over the world.

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.

That's why we started in 2005, 2006 building new generation to retire these old coal plants.

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.

if Clinton and Quad Cities were retired, all of the 25 million megawatt - hours they produce annually would be replaced by generation from other sources, mostly coal, that would belch millions of tons of CO2.

WEC says it expects to retire more than 1,800 MW of coal generation by 2020, including the Pulliam, Edgewater 4, Presque Isle and Pleasant Prairie plants.

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.

In 2015 and 2016, total coal generation retired amounted to 64 gigawatts.

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

PJM expects that nearly 14,000 megawatts of coal - fired generation will retire by 2016.

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

Generator retirements are heavily composed of coal - fired generation, with nearly 13 GW expected to be retired in 2015.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

Coal generation is retiring at an unprecedented rate and being replaced by natural gas and renewables.

«Instead of keeping that older - vintage coal plant [Oak Creek] going, they should have retired some of that older generation,» before Pleasant Prairie.