Sentences with phrase «see less coal»

Not exact matches

The coal industry is seeing huge declines as cheaper renewables, cheaper natural gas, and greater air pollution controls make it less attractive as a fuel, this is a long term trend that has recently accelerated and reached crisis proportions.

Of course, in the same way that Jevons could not see the ability for oil, gas, and nuclear power to render us less fundamentally reliant on coal, I am sure we are making equally egregious errors in our predictions of energy transitions (or at least some of us are).

Those include distribution - level efforts like tree trimming and automation, outage recovery efforts, and investments to improve customer resilience, they wrote, while the onsite fuel supplies championed by the coal and nuclear sector are seen as less beneficial.

And despite the heavy rhetoric being thrown around by their representatives, little difference was seen between Americans living in coal - heavy states and those living in states where less than half of the electricity comes from coal.

As you say Giles, Macfarlane sees wave and geothermal as far less a near term threat to coal and gas, so his strategy is to back them with a few meagre tax payer funded handouts while we let the carbon giants continue to pollute our otherwise wonderful nation for free!

In 2016 coal generation fell to less than one - third of total generation in the US, and to just over one fifth in the EU (see chart).

«We expect to see less downside pressure on coal prices in view of ongoing production cuts in 2016 and demand recovery, albeit at a slow pace,» said Helen Lau, an analyst with Argonaut Securities (Asia) Ltd. «China is still oversupplied.»

New coal and onshore gas extraction would attract state royalties, but based on historical figures (see Point 7 above) the amounts are likely to be less than one might expect, partidularly since new extraction projects tend to receive more in subsidies and other state government assistance than established projects.

Gas is far better than coal (less CO2 / energy delivered, less other pollution), and it is interesting to see them promoting it versus coal with global warming arguments.

Not to sound too cynical but I think we'll see subsidised Coal to Oil production way ahead of policies that reduce the use of fossil fuels — insuring a supply of oil being seen as urgent and Climate Change as less urgent.

Coal - fired power plants, which have seen a record number of closures, are producing much less electricity.

This matters because the longer it takes, the less competitive coal becomes against renewable energy sources and the more likely we are to see coal mines closed before they are exhausted.

I'm glad that China is expanding nuclear capacity, because I see it as much less dangerous than coal.

Burning more oil and gas, but less coal, saw the US's emissions fall 2.6 % in 2015 and they are projected to fall a further 1.7 % in 2016.