Sentences with phrase «run existing coal plants»

Furthermore, rapidly falling renewables costs are on track to make building new wind and solar farms cheaper than continuing to run existing coal plants by the mid 2020s.

Today many countries continue to build new coal plants and run existing coal plants without modern pollution controls, seriously affecting the health of their citizens.

Not exact matches

The economic incentive to shut down a newly built coal power plant once it is up and running would have to be huge and to my knowledge the replacement «green» technology either does not exist or does not offer the Chinese a large enough incentive to switch.

Lauer says they picked the location, about 50 miles northeast of Detroit in East China Township, because there's existing natural gas and electric infrastructure and a «great workforce» that's already running two of the company's existing coal plants nearby.

Currently, a number of the existing coal plants are running at low efficiencies, or have been retired early, in line with the Ministry of Power's strategy for reducing the carbon footprint of the sector.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Two - thirds of existing Indian coal generation is now more expensive than solar or wind generation, and keeping these power plants running costs India billions every year, according to Greenpeace research comparing CEA 2015 - 2016 coal power generation data to new renewable energy project bids.

Coal supplied 80 % of India's total power mix in 2016 - 2017, but economics have flipped the country's energy equation — new renewable energy is now cheaper to build than running most existing coal - fired power plaCoal supplied 80 % of India's total power mix in 2016 - 2017, but economics have flipped the country's energy equation — new renewable energy is now cheaper to build than running most existing coal - fired power placoal - fired power plants.

The report's authors point out that recent increases in emissions from the EU's coal - fired power sector are not due to more coal - fuelled facilities coming on stream, but rather because existing plants are running at full capacity.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is going after the banking sector to get them to cut financing of new and existing coal plants and to fund clean energy projects such as wind and solar.

For example, additional capacity beyond existing plants is only required by 2020 if power generation growth exceeds 4 % year and coal plants are run at utilisation rate of 45 % or less.

Many of the UK's existing gas - fired power plants have been mothballed, because they are comparatively more expensive to run while coal is so cheap.

«It is clear that China is coming to terms with the fact it does not need any more coal capacity in a market where existing plants are not even running half the time.