Sentences with phrase «solar over coal»

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

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».

To put this all in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of wind energy, and almost five times the number employed in nuclear energy,» the report notes.

His new company, 1366 Technologies, promises to drive down the cost of solar energy over the next 15 years until it is competitive with coal.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

For two centuries, we have been tapping into «fossilised sunlight», burning solar energy trapped over millions of years in coal, oil and natural gas.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

I wonder if that study takes into account that EVs and plug - in hybrids become cleaner over time as coal - fired plants are replaced with natural gas - fired plants, wind turbines, and solar plants.

If / when oil gets over $ 100 / barrel and stays there, a combination of coal, nuclear, solar and wind will be used to generate electricity, and electric cars will become more common.

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.

Then let's take the pile of money already wasted on coal - liquefication and coal - gasification while ignoring the energy and environmental costs and use it for making direct solar energy the fuel for transportation, also all over the planet.

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.»

That's why Europe, for all the fawning over their transit and rooftop solar, just ordered a big slew of new coal plants.

Over 50 percent of electricity in the U.S. comes from lower carbon sources of energy like hydro, nuclear, natural gas, wind and solar and just 45 percent comes from dirty coal.

Say, jim2, them cheshire sunspots disappearin» in a solar lull... We'll need ter call on old King Coal, stored sunshine over eons.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

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.

The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.

Coal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourCoal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourcoal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

In the latter case it will be much harder to harness from the relative trickle of energy which the sun provides to the earth, the same amounts of solar energy that have been packaged for us by nature into coal, gas and petroleum over tens of millions of years.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

This includes wind, solar, and other renewable energy supplies, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates will grow by 75 percent between 2011 and 2035, a rate higher than the growth in coal, natural gas, or oil over the same period.

Although China is among the largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e. coal fired power generation) behind.

However, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants have operating lives of over 50 years, while it is believed that the life of a solar plant will be on the order of 20 or 25 years.

Similarly, the notion that proven energy strategies «trap us in the past» fails to recognize that «past» energy technologies (oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric) actually provide 94 % of the energy that powers America today; are abundant, reliable and affordable; and represent a monumental improvement over the wind, solar, wood, dung and water wheel power that feebly energized mankind for millennia.

Just over 50 % of all new U.S. capacity in 2013 came from natural gas (no surprise), while solar accounted for 22 %, coal added 11 %, and wind accounted for 8 %; other renewables made up the balance.

Assuming new wind or solar power resources at $ 40 / MWh, we calculate that the total capacity of uneconomic coal units in the Southeast rises from 8.1 GW (according to UCS) to 15.2 GW, and the savings from replacing all these units with wind or solar would rise to over $ 230 million annually.

That would bring total closures of coal and gas plants over the coming four years to 49GW (around a third of total thermal capacity)-- which just happens to match the amount of wind and solar capacity that UBS anticipates will be added over the same period.

While solar's over twice as expensive as coal now, the advocates project the cost differential to continue to diminish at the rate it has in the past, and to disappear in a decade.

«We are making a huge investment in renewables... but even with the most aggressive solar, aggressive nuclear, aggressive hydro, we'll still need to double our coal consumption over the next 15 years.»

All the Europeans need to do is go solar, that should stump the Russians — I wonder how germany, the green giant, will go with more expensive russian gas, or do the germans prefer cheap US coal over solar panels?

The two are far from the same, and making burning coal and tar expensive will very likely drive down the long term cost of energy as Moore's Law takes over in solar, wind, ocean and geothermal.

Analysts like Bloomberg New Energy Finance see solar becoming the world's dominant energy source over the next 25 years, driving out not just coal but also a lot of gas generation as solar becomes the cheapest way to make energy.

Over the past decade, wind, solar, bioenergy, hydro, refurbished nuclear and natural gas - fired resources have replaced Ontario's coal fleet.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

Over the past 16 months, the cost of producing utility - scale solar electricity in India has fallen from 4.34 rupees per kilowatt - hour in January 2016 to 2.44 rupees (a little over 3 cents) in May 2017 — cheaper than cOver the past 16 months, the cost of producing utility - scale solar electricity in India has fallen from 4.34 rupees per kilowatt - hour in January 2016 to 2.44 rupees (a little over 3 cents) in May 2017 — cheaper than cover 3 cents) in May 2017 — cheaper than coal.

Over a ten - year - period, the solar industry created 5.65 jobs per million dollars invested, whereas the entire coal - fired power generation chain produces only 3.96 jobs per million dollars sunk into it.

Wind and solar have major problems with reliability, cost, and adverse health and environmental impacts that their proponents gloss over, whereas emissions from modern, highly efficient coal - fired power plants with stack gas cleanup consist almost entirely of water, CO2, and nitrogen.

For example, higher coal prices due to carbon taxing will lead cost - minimizing power grids to more heavily dispatch lower - emitting natural gas power plants in the short run, and to switch increasingly to zero - carbon wind and solar generation over time.

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the grid.

Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.

As can be seen by the figure, solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.

It's easy to get lost in complex discussions over carbon taxes, fracking, pipelines, gas vs coal, solar vs nuclear, climate sensitivity, etc and it's useful to stay, well, grounded with a mantra like that.

That is, when celebrating the preponderance of wind and solar jobs over coal jobs, some folks forget that one reason for that is that in the US we are building new wind and solar capacity, but (thank God!)

The fabulous David Roberts over at Vox reports that even utility CEOs are now predicting that it will be cheaper to build new wind and solar than to keep running the old coal and nuclear plants that have already been built.

Solar is expected to be reach cost parity with coal by the end of 2016, driving a big change - over.

Add partisan government squabbling over coal versus nuclear energy and wind power versus solar and we have even more confusion.