Sentences with phrase «subsidized coal»

Kazakhstan was the only country that subsidized coal in 2015.

Perhaps instead of oil replacing coal, it somehow subsidized coal production?

The grid operator is also in the midst of a plan to let subsidized coal and nuclear plants leapfrog over competitors in bidding into that annual capacity auction.

This is the same guy who just green - lighted offshore Arctic oil drilling and promised to open vast tracts of public land to heavily - subsidized coal mining.

Others have been distancing themselves from subsidized coal to liquids and other hairbrained schemes.

Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants.

Additionally, Trump has vowed to revitalise the coal industry, but with abundant natural gas replacing coal in electricity markets, it is difficult to see how he can accomplish this, without heavily subsidizing coal --- a move that he would be at pains to justify.

Lawmakers of both parties are proposing amendments to the so - called energy independence bill that would massively subsidize the coal industry to produce liquid coal as a replacement for foreign oil.

At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.

BLM's topsy - turvy approach on climate has brought us a federal coal binge that is indirectly subsidizing the coal industry and worsening climate disruption.

Clean energy advocates should oppose subsidizing coal, argues Jameson McBride of the Breakthrough Institute.

Ohio lawmakers are debating bills to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants, including FirstEnergy's Davis - Besse and Perry nuclear power plants and two 1950s - era coal plants.

to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants, including FirstEnergy's Davis - Besse and Perry nuclear power plants and two 1950s - era coal plants.

In the aftermath of a horrific explosion in the West Virginia coal mine, we have a bill that proposes to subsidize coal.

Environmentalists have traditionally opposed nuclear power, but have new allies in the natural gas industry and conservative groups opposed to subsidizing coal and nuclear power.

Not exact matches

The latter two are inexcusable — rich nations have no business subsidizing rich oil, gas and coal companies or their own consumers.

Alberta's NDP government is also accelerating coal plant closures, subsidizing renewables, and taxing and regulating carbon dioxide.

But O'Meara fears some of the money is being diverted to subsidize the sponsorless Quad City Classic, which is held concurrently in Coal Valley, Ill..

The Cayuga coal - burning plant outside Ithaca may close and the R.E. Ginna facility in Western New York is being subsidized by ratepayers for another few years because it is needed to maintain the state's electrical grid reliability.

From an interview with Grist magazine: «I'd like to see coal gasification, and I would subsidize R&D in that effort.

McCain says he doesn't want to waste money subsidizing special interests, but I'm not quite sure what that means in the context of $ 30 billion for the clean coal boondoggle.

Production of oil, coal and natural gas is subsidized with tax breaks for reasons both practical and political.

What seems really dumb is that, faced with the overwhelming evidence of climate change, we would still be using taxpayer monies to subsidize oil and coal rather than renewable energy.

It's not coal to liquids per se that is hair brained, it is that we would subsidized such an expensive, carbon intensive process, if indeed we have any money left over after our ethanol subsidies.

Compare this to other subsidized sources like natural gas and coal, which receive 64 cents / MWh, Hydro: 82 cents, Nuclear: $ 3.14, and Geothermal: $ 12.85 / MWh.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In addition, coal continues to be subsidized by federal, state, and local authorities, as well as by international lending institutions.

As these alternative ways are competing against a set of products — in essence, two: petrochemical fuels and coal — that are subsidized by being allowed to use up the scarce resource of the carbon cycle's ability to cope with waste CO2E, the Market is not fair, and does not run according to Capitalist precepts, without such a carbon price.

To get investors to build wind turbines instead of coal plants, a wind project could be subsidized and charged just enough to make its costs identical to those of coal.

The reality: Subsidizing clean - coal technologies is a near - term non-solution.

Over a century's worth of subsidizing fossil energy sources — not to mention roads, vehicle development and manufacturing, and transmission / distribution infrastructure — have underwritten the steady development and improvement of conventional energy sources and embedded coal, oil, and natural gas as the favored national energy inputs.

Regarding subsidizing other power generation at least we get 24 x7 power with coal and gas fired power plants and nuclear powerplants.

«Making smaller coal plants doesn't make coal cheaper or cleaner, it just forces the public to again subsidize a dangerous fuel source of the past.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.

Jimmy Carter's subsidized oil from shale rock, ancient solar panels on the roof, and synthetic gas from coal plants just demonstration projects by comparison.

Generators argued at the D.C. Circuit Court last year that amounts to forcing coal plants to subsidize their competitors or shut down.

Sorry — but I actually didn't know to what extent Gene thinks that oil and coal are subsidized, how he would evaluate the cost of negative externalities associated with coal and oil, and whether the prices of coal and oil truly reflect their cost.

These charges would subsidize risky capital investments in the Company's coal assets — several of which have been determined by other owners to have value and be unreliable.

To what degree do you think that coal and oil are subsidized, currently?

As our colleague John Moore has explained, their point is not to help the climate; it is to help FES by subsidizing both its failing coal plants and its failing nuclear plants.

And indication that other utility sources such as coal and gas are over subsidized by society.

Subsidized legacy coal in electricity plants that have had their licenses to operate past safe end of life strategically paying surrounding energy generators just enough to NOT to build hydro power?

The details are commercially confidential, but I have always been careful to disclose that I have this interest in my writing when it is relevant; I am proud that the coal mining on my land contributes to the local and national economy; and that my income from coal is not subsidized and not a drain on the economy through raising energy prices.

Coal has to be subsidized to compete with natural gas.

Now is the time for Ex-Im Bank to quit subsidizing corrupt coal and other fossil fuel projects.

The agency turned down a US Department of Energy (DOE) proposal aimed at subsidizing nuclear and coal energy plants as baseload resources to improve the resilience of the US energy system.

Major exports of US publicly owned coal, obtained under outdated policies at subsidized prices, would send a troubling signal about the integrity and seriousness of the United States» climate policies.