Sentences with phrase «said coal and natural gas»

Not exact matches

«I can't overstate the extreme competition between coal and natural gas,» Daniels said.

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

Foley said that coal will still likely be the majority power source in 25 years in developing economies like China and India, as they have large domestic coal supplies and less domestic competition from natural gas.

«The scalable winners out of this are going to be coal and natural gas,» Tertzakian says.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

And at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow saAnd at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow saand that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow said.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

A 2013 NRG Research Group poll found that 68 percent of Albertans want coal plants phased out or shut down and replaced with natural gas and renewable energy, the report said.

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello said the U.S. needs to take immediate action to get off of dirty fossil fuel energy sources like natural gas and coal and switch to 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

«Some were even saying that fracking and natural gas would be a lesser evil than coal.

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

It's the type of litigation that legal experts say may become more common as coastal cities and waterlogged counties draw the connection between rising waters and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Recently, he said: «I don't propose that we immediately stop burning coal, oil, and natural gas to address climate change or other environmental issues.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

And given the current cost competitiveness of natural gas, there is little reason for utilities to include coal in the planning mix for new generation assets, Barnett said.

«You can't get to stabilization without having to deal with carbon capture and storage from both the coal fleet [of power plants] and the natural gas fleet,» says Scott Klara, NETL's director of the office of coal and power systems research and development.

At that price, coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewable electricity sources like wind become roughly cost - competitive, Moniz says.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

I think the article says 300 coal and 300 natural gas plants, right?

And if all our oil, natural gas, and coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says TaAnd if all our oil, natural gas, and coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says Taand coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says Tans.

«Using coal to make natural gas may be good for China's energy security, but it's an environmental disaster in the making,» said Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Sciences and director of the Duke Center on Global Change.

With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last year.

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

«There's about as much carbon in permafrost as there is in coal, oil and natural gas put together,» said James White, a geological sciences professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during thenatural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during theNatural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during thenatural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

He said coal power generation is no longer socially acceptable in many parts of the country and most electric power companies prefer natural gas and renewables because they cost less.

«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

«I think we'll see EPA take a closer look at its interim targets, to make sure it's not encouraging quick fixes, like switching from coal to natural gas, at the expense of longer - term planning and investment in zero - carbon generation,» said Perciasepe.

Proponents say that today energy utilities find greater benefit in a technology that puts the financial risk up front, in the construction cost, and has little vulnerability to later swings in the price of fuel, as natural gas does, or to changes in emissions regulations, as coal faces.

Sub-Saharan Africa, who in the worst - case over the next 40 years would be 4 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, you can give them a pass and say, «Hey, any way that you guys can get energy, if it's natural gas, coal, gasoline, you know, whatever you want.

The breakup of the link between CO2 emissions and economic growth in developed countries has been brought about in part by the availability of inexpensive natural gas beginning to replace coal for electric power generation, Harvard University business and government professor Robert N. Stavins said.

In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.

Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

The value of doing this is clear: «Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.»

The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.

While Friedmann said he expects some natural - gas plants and a few coal - fired power plants to get enough of an economic edge from the credits, they are likely to pencil out more positively for industrial applications at first.

Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming.

Natural gas is said to emit only half as much CO2 as coal; but recent research suggests that natural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhouNatural gas is said to emit only half as much CO2 as coal; but recent research suggests that natural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhounatural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhouse gas.

Several sources say the energy company NRG has provided large contributions to BEST to kill nuclear and replace it with coal, in addition to natural gas.