Sentences with phrase «said coal power»

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.

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Perry said that the U.K. was committed to phasing out unabated coal - fire power generation «no later than 2025,» and hoped to inspire others to follow suit.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said the commission's «disappointing lack of action» comes on the heels of a cold snap that demonstrated the value that coal provides to power grids.

«As much as I believe it is going to be part of the energy infrastructure around power, I believe that other sources are now catching up with coal in terms of the overall costs,» Morgan said.

Banks says all the coal at Shotton and Highthorn can be extracted by the government's 2025 deadline for phasing out coal - fired power generation.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

The U.K. - based bank, whose operations are increasingly concentrated in Asia, said it will make up to $ 100 billion available for financing low - carbon projects, while stopping the financing of mines that produce coal for power generation.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on ThursCoal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurscoal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

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.

Rogers said he thinks that energy in 2039 will be a dynamic mix of coal, solar, wind, gas, nuclear and oil, with no one power source dominating.

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.

To beat the cold, China has temporarily eased restrictions on coal production until the end of the year as Premier Li Keqiang said there was a need to balance demand to ramp up power output against pollution control.

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.

He has long criticized the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency, saying that its proposals to tighten emission standards on coal - burning power plants are killing American jobs.

Macron has also said he wants to phase out France's use of coal power in five years and reduce its reliance on nuclear power to 50 % by 2025.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, said today (April 20) that it plans to extend its ban on financing new coal - power plants to even more countries, will...

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

Another major Trump move aimed partly at helping the coal industry — repealing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan — also won't make that much of a difference for coal, said MIT's Knittel.

«We now have knowledge and comfort that we have an incredible resource base — technically recoverable resources of 3,000 trillion cubic feet,» said Rita Beale, IHS senior director of power, gas, coal and renewables.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put measures in place to deal with the coal shortages at seven of its power stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would not result in load - shedding.

By: Simone Liedtke 30th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom says it is considering a proposal by Optimum coal mine business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage from the mine from 400 000 t to 200 000 t for the remainder of the contract period.

A shift away from coal might be challenging for the province's longtime coal power companies, but that industry is undergoing change across North American, said Smith.

This would be equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from 5.7 million passenger vehicles or 7.8 coal - fired power plants, the EPA says.

The power station will consume that mountain of coal (1000s of tons) in a regular period of time, say a week or a few days before the next trainload delivers a new stockpile.

This is like someone would say: «I am an ecofreak, and I am in favor of brown coal power stations without filter.»

Barnaby Joyce said the government building a coal - fired power station would be consistent with its existing policies.

Barnaby Joyce says he would be» 100 %» behind the government constructing coal - fired power stations if that would lower the price of electricity.

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.

Speaking at Chongqing University, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would fit all coal power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and hit out at a lack of government progress in the field.

[33] A month later, Miliband announced to the House of Commons a change to the government's policy on coal - fired power stations, saying that any potential new coal - fired power stations would be unable to receive government consent unless they could demonstrate that they would be able to effectively capture and bury 25 % of the emissions they produce immediately, with a view to seeing that rise to 100 % of emissions by 2025.

In the video, she also highlighted her willingness to disagree with her party, saying «when Washington Democrats take the wrong course, hurting our coal industry, I will do everything in my power to stop them, including standing up to President Barack Obama.»

It will be nearly impossible for the state to reach its goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030 if there are still coal - burning power plants operating, she said.

Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says nuclear power is preferable to coal or natural gas as New York transitions to renewable energy.

The head of the EPA said that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal - fired power plPower Plan, an Obama - era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal - fired power plpower plants.

«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).

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

Hartz said that in addition to new jobs, the town's economy is cleaner now because of the closing of Huntley, a coal - fired power plant that had been one of Erie County's biggest polluters.

«These coal - fired power plants coming online can be compared with a pregnant woman smoking one pack of cigarettes a day,» she says.

«All of our coal - fired power plants, none of them can meet those efficiency standards,» said Melanie Hart, one of the report's authors and director of China policy at CAP.

Hart said a key question next week would be how the program would seek to avoid advantaging provinces with substantial renewable energy resources over those that are more dependent on coal - fired power, like Liaoning in northeastern China, which is known as the country's Rust Belt.

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.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

It has excellent geologic structure and conditions for carbon sequestration,» says Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for the alliance of 14 of the largest coal burners and miners in the world, including American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, Australia - based BHP Billiton and China Huaneng Group headquartered in Beijing.