Sentences with phrase «running coal units»

In this blog we breakdown the costs associated with running coal units, by using the US as an example.

There are several costs associated with running coal units.

Not exact matches

Given that a new coal plant can't meet either of those standards without adding carbon capture and storage technology, the limit will only determine how intensively a new plant would have to run its carbon capture unit.

And if you didn't do that with the refrigerator you would have do that with the coal plant or combustion turbine running up and down, and doing that makes that unit run much more inefficiently.

Trains can run on diesel as well as electricity (or coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity per unit fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

The company is converting three of its six generating units to run on 100 % biomass instead of coal.

This is about the price paid to coal and nuclear units, which run almost all the time.

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.

Does AGL have another plan other than to continue running all units at Loy Yang A as base load brown coal??

(31) «With three coal - fired units (two 102 megawatts and one 124 megawatts), Whiting is considered a baseload plant, because the units are designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year....

* For the comparison to existing or new NGCC, UCS assumes that the NGCC unit would run at the same capacity factor as the coal unit under consideration.

The newest coal - fired generator in the state, the enormous Unit 6 at the Rogers Energy Complex in Cliffside, is being converted to run flexibly on either coal or gas, while coal - fired Unit 5 was excluded by the UCS analysis because it is being converted to run partially on natural gas, but would also fail the economic stress test compared to natural gas and wind.

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.

Then subtract emissions from other Dynegy and NRG Energy Inc. coal units that have since 2012 announced plans to shut down in Illinois (Edwards 1, Crawford, Will County, Fisk, Wood River) and the conversion of NRG's Joliet plant to run on natural gas.

On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.

For instance, during a Q4 earnings call last month, Jim Robo, CEO of NextEra Energy, predicted that by the early 2020s, it will be cheaper to build new renewables than to continue running existing coal units.

The coal industry seems to be running scared ahead of environmentalists, and still assigns the label «clean coal» to IGCC units, where CO2 is captured and stored underground — «forever»?

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.

To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generatunits (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generatunits (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generatUnits) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generatunits (Gas & Diesel generators).

plant was a 1400 MW capability, 4 units running on coal, gas and oil.