Sentences with phrase «than new coal»

Think about that for a moment: Once you take retirements into account, as you should, we got more new solar last year than new coal + new gas + new nuclear.

However, natural gas and wind are both already cheaper than new coal - fired power plants, even without the new EPA regulations.

Now that renewable energy sources like solar and PV are cheaper than new coal - fired power stations in most jurisdictions (anywhere with either favorable conditions or a reasonable carbon price), the big remaining question is that of supply variability / intermittency.

If leakage is higher than 3 percent, there are some periods in the next 30 years when gas will result in more climate impact than new coal plants.

They emit much more CO2 than the CCGT, and are only marginally better than new coal plants.

Since power from new renewables is cheaper than power from existing coal and nuclear, it's no surprise that the lifetime cost of new renewables is much cheaper than new coal and nuclear power.

However even without a carbon price (the most efficient way to reduce economy - wide emissions) wind energy is 14 % cheaper than new coal and 18 % cheaper than new gas.»

New wind power is now cheaper per megawatt - hour than new coal - or gas - fired electricity generation, but renewable energy still needs subsidies to compete with existing generators.

Wind is now cheaper than new coal, which is why it's had such a dominant position in terms of new installed capacity for a while now.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

Not exact matches

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

Regulations that affect proposed new coal plants in the U.S. are therefore likely to have a larger overall impact on GHG emissions than Canadian regulations.

The U.S. generates over 1.7 million megawatt hours from coal - fired power, compared to less than 100,000 megawatt hours in Canada, and U.S. coal generation is expected to remain roughly constant through 2040 absent any new regulations.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

«On rooftops from Arizona to New York, solar is saving Americans tens of millions of dollars a year on their energy bills, and employs more Americans than coal — in jobs that pay better than average.»

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Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

Solar created one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year, and the sector now employs more Americans than coal.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

The Department of Energy estimated in May 2007 that a new power plant burning pulverized coal and equipped with amine scrubbers to capture 90 percent of the CO2 would make electricity at a cost of more than $ 114 per megawatt - hour (compared with just $ 63 per MWh without CO2 capture).

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

For example, China gets about 20 per cent of its imported coal from Australia, but more than half of what Australia sends might not meet the new standards.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

A new study suggests that more methane is leaking than the U.S. government estimates — but natural gas remains less polluting than coal

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decaNew Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decanew energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

Forty years of mountaintop coal mining have made parts of Central Appalachia 60 percent flatter than they were before excavation, says new research by Duke University.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

As rumored, EPA will require that all new natural gas - fired plants emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour, and coal plants no more than 1,100 pounds per megawatt - hour.

The new reductions will bring coal use in the city to less than 7 million tons this year, down from around 22 million tons in 2013

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Most new coal - fired power plants are more efficient than the older technologies that used to be standard equipment.

That is only slightly less than pending new capacity in China, the world's reigning king of coal (ClimateWire, Sept. 17, 2012).

In September 2013, the EPA proposed new standards for coal - fired plants that are significantly more stringent than existing standards.

Commercially, plants using «clean coal» technology can be more attractive than new reactors, says the company in its submission to the government's review of the nuclear industry.

We also discuss what's going on in New Mexico with renewable energy, work that offers a better response to meeting people's energy needs and also is better environmentally and more affordable than nuclear power — or coal, oil, and natural gas that also play major roles in New Mexico.

In Ohio, the state has granted permits to mine for coal at new and existing sites ranging from less than 20 acres to more than 350.

A version of this article appears in print on November 4, 2015, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: China Is Burning Much More Coal Than It Claimed.