Sentences with phrase «share of coal generation»

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Coal - fired power makes up the largest share of electricity generation in the U.S., although that share is expected to decline thanks mostly to the rise of natural gas (see the chart below).

According to S&P, coal is poised to see a shrinking share of the world's power generation market, which could lead to some coal reserves becoming stranded assets.

The company plans to reduce the share of coal - powered generation by half, to 16 percent of its power output, by 2030.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

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.

In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state - owned power company China Huaneng and Washington - based Summit Power Group agreed to share information on clean coal power generation technology.

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.

Coal's share of the electricity generation mix drops from 45 % to 39 % between 2010 and 2035.

The country's carbon dioxide emissions are back to the levels of the early 1990s, in large measure because moderately - priced natural gas has been taking market share away from coal in electric generation.

For the moment, coal - fired power plants dominate our share of generation, so ultra super critical or even I.G.C.C. [integrated gasification combined cycle power generation].

Although coal - fired power generation may not be flexible enough to make up for the variability of wind power at the source region, the «hybrid - by - wire» strategy allows the lines to have a high utilization rate, and provides the flexibility to increase the share of renewable transmission in the future.

Then, the agency would set a target emission rate for each state for 2020, based on the state's baseline share of coal and gas generation.

Renewables grow at a slightly lower rate, while the share of coal - fired generation declines to 28 % in 2020 and 19 % in 2030.

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

The natural gas share of total generation also grows, from 27 % in 2013 to 31 % in 2040 in the Reference case, while the coal share declines from 39 % in 2013 to 34 % in 2040, and the nuclear share drops from 19 % to 16 % over the projection period.

In fact, the EIA recently reported that coal's share of U.S. electric power generation fell below 40 % for the last two months of 2011, the lowest level since 1978.

Coal's share of total generation rose from 18.5 % in 2011 to 19.1 % in 2012, and has continued to inch up in 2013.

Solar PV (with associated energy storage costs included) could supply 23 % of global power generation in 2040 and 29 % by 2050, entirely phasing out coal and leaving natural gas with just a 1 % market share.

In the Reference case of EIA's long - term international energy projections, China's coal share of generation steadily decreases to nearly 50 % by 2040, as generation shares from renewables and nuclear both increase.

The same IEA report compares coal and oil's current 46 per cent share of global electricity generation to what it would be in 2030 under the 2 °C degree scenario.

In March 2012, coal's share of total generation was 34 % compared to natural gas at 30 %.

Between 2015 and 2040, the share of coal in power generation is expected to increase from 32 % to 42 %, whereas the share of gas in power generation is projected to drop from 42 % in 2015 to 37 % in 2040 (Kimura and Han, 2016).

As a result, natural gas has increased its share of electric utility generation over the past decade from 22 percent to 32 percent, overtaking coal as the major source of U.S. electricity generation.

Almost a third of these companies, however, have a coal share of power generation, which is less than 50 %.

Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.

Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March ever recorded in much of the United States, coal's share of total net generation dropped to 34 % — the lowest level since at least January 1973 (the earliest date for which EIA has monthly statistics).

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

Coal has steadily lost its share of European electricity generation in recent years, falling to just over 21 percent of the E.U.'s total generation in 2016, according to the nonprofit research group Sandbag.

Since 2006 - 07 the share of gas in power generation has fallen from 58 % to 49 % but the big change has been in coal, which has fallen from 42 % to 25 %.

Indeed, coal's share of US electricity generation fell to 33 % in April 2012, the lowest level seen in decades, thanks in large part to cheap natural gas, and US CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 were 13 % below 2005 levels.

According to analysis by non-profit research group Sandbag, EU coal generation fell to just over 21 % of total generation in 2016, a little more than one - half the share in 1990.

Natural gas generation first surpassed coal generation on a monthly basis in April 2015, and the generation shares for coal and natural gas were nearly identical in 2015, each providing about one - third of all electricity generation.

With higher natural gas prices in 2013 and 2014, coal regained some of its generation share.

Even adding coal's share of fatalities in the power - generation industry, which brings the rate up to 0.0164, still leaves wind power with a 34 percent higher mortality rate.

Similarly in the EU coal is now in third place in terms of its share of power generation, behind renewables and nuclear.

The recent decline in the generation share of coal, and the concurrent rise in the share of natural gas, was mainly a market - driven response to lower natural gas prices that have made natural gas generation more economically attractive.

In EIA's forecast, natural gas provides 33 % of generation in 2016 while coal's share falls to 32 %.

In the UK alone coal's share of generation fell to just 9 % in 2016 (a historic low), due to the closure of three plants last year mainly caused by the introduction of a carbon price floor.

In either case, it becomes clear that if Germany, in the years to come, pursues the 65 percent RES target, this will de facto mean a substantial cut in coal's share of power generation.

In November and December 2011, coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation fell to its lowest monthly level since 1978.

However, EIA's latest Electric Power Monthly shows that coal's generation share once again exceeded that of natural gas during May.

Coal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through JanuCoal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through Janucoal's share stabilized at these levels through January.

In Europe, too, coal generation has been falling in terms of volume and market share.

In abandoning the CPP, the decline in coal's share of generation in the US will slow significantly, but coal is unlikely to regain the market share lost over the last decade.

I believed the share of the target that needed to be achieved from fossil fuel use could be achieved by nuclear power largely replacing coal for electricity generation and natural gas largely replacing petrol and diesel for land transport (including buses, long haul transport and cars).

Even without the Clean Power Plan, coal's share of national electricity generation has been in steep decline for over a decade, dropping from 49 % in 2007 to 33 % in 2015, due largely to hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the market with cheap, lower carbon natural gas.

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).

Over the past five years, those numbers have changed, first slowly and now dramatically: In April of this year, coal's share in power generation plummeted to just 32 percent, on par with gas.

When the year ended, gas» share of 2015 generation was within a half percentage point of coal.

Although still the largest single fuel for electricity generation, coal's share of monthly power generation in the United States dropped below 40 % in November and December 2011.