Sentences with phrase «uneconomic coal and nuclear»

Only a day after NETL's report was released, the utility FirstEnergy submitted a request to DOE for emergency financial assistance to rescue its uneconomic coal and nuclear plants and heavily cited the NETL report.

The idea is to prop up outdated and uneconomic coal and nuclear plants — even if better, cheaper, and cleaner alternatives exist — and pass the costs on to ratepayers.

wants to change how it sets energy and capacity prices in ways that could bolster uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

Not exact matches

That conviction over the decades led us to successfully stop uneconomic coal, oilsands and nuclear plants (no new reactors have been built since we began our opposition).

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

Not it is your argument that PV will make electricity generation less secure because a purported low LCOE will make it uneconomic to run reliable baseload plant of which the only realistic options are coal and nuclear.

Federal and state officials are weighing proposals to keep otherwise uneconomic nuclear and coal - fired power plants from retiring.