Sentences with phrase «said coal power generation»

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.

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.

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 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.

«I think that this decision represents a clear and powerful recognition of how serious the threat of global warming is and that our reliance on coal for power generation needs to be changed,» says Eric Young, spokesman on global warming at New York City — based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

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.

Professor Mauzerall said: «For example, relocating coal power generation to arid western regions could exacerbate water scarcity.

Yet overall, she says, emissions from fishing pale in comparison to industries on land, such as power generation from coal plants.

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.

Move still falls short of halting build - up of overcapacity in coal - fired power generation, critics says

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.

You say — «Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth...»

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target (RET).

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

PacifiCorp, which operates as Rocky Mountain Power in Wyoming, said it has pulled all coal - based power generation from its plan to meet increasing load demand within the six Western states it sePower in Wyoming, said it has pulled all coal - based power generation from its plan to meet increasing load demand within the six Western states it sepower generation from its plan to meet increasing load demand within the six Western states it serves.

FPL says it expects its solar power generation capacity will exceed that from coal and oil combined by 2020.

Despite rapid growth of wind and solar, it says, two - thirds of power generation will come from gas, coal and nuclear plants over the next decade.

Finally, with the costs of renewables down 90 percent in the last decade, the report said, these energy sources are now competitive with coal for power generation.

«As we enter the second decade of the 21st century experiencing a horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a devastating natural gas explosion in California, death of 25 West Virginia coal miners, kidnapped uranium miners in Niger — it's about time for the United States to reposition itself as a global leader in solar and the entire portfolio renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies critical to our economic and national security,» said Scott Sklar, president of the Stella Group, which promotes renewable power generation.

Use of coal for power generation will decline, he said.

Spence, in a piece for Fortune magazine, said reasons include the fact that «states must approve the construction of new electricity generation units and strong majorities in many states remain opposed to coal - fired power.»

Given that the share of coal in power generation is rising, this is alarming,» said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The EPA proposed the first - ever US curbs on power plants» greenhouse gas emissions, saying next - generation coal plants should meet the restrictions.

«It's not like power supply of the past where you had a bunch of nuclear power plants, a couple coal plants and some gas - fired generation with the odd renewable asset thrown in, and then a jumbled mix of grey and green power being sold at the consumer end,» says Uli Suedhoff, a director at GE Renewable Energy in Europe.

With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2C this century is slipping out of reach.

«The issue of methane leakage is getting a lot of attention, because much of the policy discussion is premised on the view that natural gas has roughly half of the greenhouse gas emissions relative to coal for power generation,» said Jason Bordoff, Director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, at an event to discuss the study on Monday.

The IEA continues to see an increase in global coal use by 0.2 % per year, and says China's coal use will continue to make up more than half of the country's total power generation, with Australia remaining the largest coal exporter, followed by Indonesia.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

MidAmerican expects to close some coal - powered plants in 2015 as the price of wind power continues to slide, said Adam Wright, vice president of wind generation and development for MidAmerican's Iowa utility.

According to this scenario, the IEA says, the share of coal in the power generation mix falls from 75 % to less than 60 %, but coal - fired power still meets half of the increase in power generation.

In the face of strong opposition from environmental groups opposed to the prospect of restarting coal - fired power generation at the Danskammer plant in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Helios Power Capital said in a letter to the New York Public Service Commission that it is «unnecessary» to use coal at the plant and that the company has «no intention to do so.&rpower generation at the Danskammer plant in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Helios Power Capital said in a letter to the New York Public Service Commission that it is «unnecessary» to use coal at the plant and that the company has «no intention to do so.&rPower Capital said in a letter to the New York Public Service Commission that it is «unnecessary» to use coal at the plant and that the company has «no intention to do so.»

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