Sentences with phrase «than coal»

As they increase production it will be cheaper than coal powered electricity.

Natural gas burns cleaner than coal or oil, but that benefit is only seen when the fuel is put to use.

Coal is wind's real competition, and wind power costs about 3 cents / kWh more than coal power.

Recent science indicates that with leakage rates as little as 3 per cent, emissions from gas are no better than coal fired power stations.

The focus needs to be on how to get nuclear at a cost less than coal.

In addition, natural gas is cheaper than coal in many areas.

It indicates that nuclear is about 4 orders of magnitude (10,000 times) safer than coal generation.

For example, utilities will rely more on natural gas rather than coal to produce electricity.

Per energy unit, oil produces less CO2 than coal, but more than natural gas.

Across the country, these industries already employ far more people than coal mining.

The regulators have also discovered some hydro projects reported a very low electricity tariff, lower than coal power plants and other hydro projects in the same province.

Wind is already less expensive than coal in many parts of the country, and so is large - scale solar thermal.

Wind energy creates 30 % more jobs than a coal plant and 66 % more than a nuclear power plant per unit of energy generated.

In fact, today more people work in the solar industry than the coal industry.

BTW, I made no claim as to whether it's better or worse than coal mining.

Natural gas is widely advertised and promoted as a clean burning fuel that produces less greenhouse gas emissions than coal when burned.

The letter notes that burning wood releases more carbon dioxide than coal for each unit of power produced.

Multiple studies have indicated that natural gas is no better for the climate than coal when you consider the high rates of methane leakage in natural gas production and transport.

The solar industry really does employ more people than the coal industry does.

While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling with a hazardous waste problem.

The coal - fired generating units retired in 2015 tended to be older and smaller in capacity than the coal generation fleet that continues to operate.

This takes into account improvements in efficiency and the fact that natural gas is a cleaner fossil fuel than coal.

Would the development of wind, solar, and tidal energy industries create less jobs than coal mining?

Recent research has indicated that leakage of methane into the atmosphere from gas wells and particularly from coal - seam - gas operations, might do more climate - changing harm even than coal.

Natural gas is less dirty than coal, more expensive and used for peak demand.

The problem, according to many energy analysts, is that burning pellets creates more global warming pollution than coal, not less.

I think that type of comment is far more damaging than the coal train comment discussed earlier.

As long as gas supplies are adequate, gas fired generators are easier to permit, far cheaper to build, and vastly cleaner to operate than coal - fired generators * *.

The state now has the capacity to get more energy from wind than coal, a remarkable turnaround for a state so identified with fossil fuel extraction.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

More than enough, as we shall see, to make fracking worse for climate change than the coal it was replacing.

On gas: several studies have argued that gas is no better than coal from a CO2 perspective, given methane leakage.

And she made the rational observation that nuclear power was a cleaner source of power than coal as it did not produce carbon dioxide.....

She points out that wind power is actually more labour intensive than coal, and requires 2.5 time more units of labour for every MW of electricity produced.

And if history has demonstrated anything, nobody is more brutal and ruthless in their treatment of coal miners than coal companies.

Consequently, wood - fired power plants generate more CO2 per kWh than coal.

Not fair on gas, which is better suited to an interim backup role but may be more immediately impacted than coal.

Natural gas - fired combined cycle units are more efficient at over 50 % now, less expensive and quicker to build than coal - based systems.

You actually think it is more dangerous than coal.

Based on the statistics you provide, how many times safer is nuclear than coal?

Even if coal prices remain steady, which it thinks is unlikely, it believes that the continuing fall in PV prices means that solar energy will be more economic than coal by 2020.

Natural gas is often touted as more sustainable than coal and oil because it releases fewer pollutants when it burns.