Sentences with phrase «when coal fired power»

Not exact matches

When first elected in 2003, he promised to retire all coal - fired power plants by 2007.

Unlike China and the US, in Canada coal - fired power plants aren't the biggest worry when it comes to increasing emissions.

When both rules are fully enforced, Bernstein Research estimates that 15 % of coal - fired power plants will be forced to close — unable to meet new safety standards — or will require substantial new investment to remain viable.

Several months later, when a Kansas review board denied a permit for a new coal - fired power plant, the basis of the denial was the future negative impact of the CO2.

Yet, putting CO2 capture on coal - fired power plants and other big industrial polluters seems less a question of whether and more a question of when.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

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.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

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.

Nighttime is often when the wind blows but it is also when utilities like to run only their coal - fired power plants.

Whether it's turning off a light when leaving a room or building windmills to replace coal - fired power plants, stopping global warming could be a matter of survival.

Ontario became the first province in Canada to become coal - free in electricity generation as of 2014, a year earlier than anticipated when Ontario's premier pledged in 2002 to end all coal - fired power in the province.

«Why should I do anything when China is building X new coal - fired power stations each week,» is the most common response I've come across, and is actually a fair point.

, like when mom wanted you to clean your room, is if a moratorium is placed on the building of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage technology can be built into such plants.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

• New coal - fired power plants would only be permitted when they replace existing coal - fired capacity (so they would not increase the total capacity) unless they were completely clean, i.e., unless they had a way of removing carbon dioxide from emissions.

Even while they are running adds criticizing governor Sebelius's decision, Peabody Energy is already incorporating a shadow price of carbon into their financial calculations when deciding if investments in new coal - fired power plants are viable.

Here's an excellent National Geographic feature by Jeff Smith, posted just a week ago, on the limits of India's coal resource, the environmental issues raised by its coal boom and the end of an era there when coal - fired power was cheap.

in 5 years or so, when the rolling blackouts begin in american cities due to power shortages, we'll be wishing we had built those coal - fired plants at home.

When the 33 % efficiency of coal fired power plants (no it is not 40 % for these) is factored in, as well as the high rate of CO2 per BTU, the plugging in turns out to be not a good thing.

China might have recently passed us up when it comes to annual emissions, but take heart: Our coal - fired power plants and industrial factories are still churning out pollution with the best of them.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

When all of these wind farms are completed, Texas will have 53,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity — the equivalent of 53 coal - fired power plants.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

A protest of a planned coal - fired power plant in Bangladesh turned sour on Thursday, when police reportedly confronted marchers with tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons in the capital...

The study linked to in your point # 5 points out that there is increased CO2 when modulating coal fired plants to account for gaps in wind generation, and that offsets any CO2 emissions saved with wind power.

This was seen in California in 2006 when Senate Bill 1368, a bill to ban the renewal of coal - fired power contracts, was passed and signed into law.

«Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, wrote the Framework Convention on Climate Change when she was an East German,» Michaels pointed out, but «Germany has resumed building coal - fired power plants because they can't get enough electricity out of solar energy and windmills.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

When we waste less energy, we need fewer power plants, which emit harmful pollutants and heat - trapping greenhouse gases — especially coal - fired ones.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

The coal would be enough to fuel 152 coal - fired power plants, and when burned, would fuel global warming by releasing more than 643 million tons of heat - trapping carbon dioxide — the amount released every year by 111,655,273 passenger vehicles (according to EPA's greenhouse gas equivalency calculator).

Modeling has also shown that it's relatively inexpensive to increase the reliability of the total wind output to a level equivalent to a coal - fired power station by adding a few low - cost peak - load gas turbines that are opearated infrequently, to fill in the gaps when the wind farm production is low (Diesendorf 2010).

The point is that IF / WHEN the adoption of nuclear power for Australia is put to the electorate, the majority (who don't have the financial luxury to agree to it at any price) will ultimately be influenced by the price being equal to, or less than, coal fired electricity generation or renewables.

As my colleague Gordon pointed out in a post last week, India is currently learning the most important lesson about its over-dependence on outdated, centralized coal - fired power: It is simply not flexible enough to accommodate India's real problem - peak demand (the kind that happens when 20 million Delhi inhabitants turn on their air conditioners or fans all at once).

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

Electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm in Australia at a cost of A$ 80 ($ 84) per megawatt hour, compared with A$ 143 a megawatt hour from a new coal - fired power plant or A$ 116 from a new station powered by natural gas when the cost of carbon emissions is included, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report.

Yet that is exactly what the largest coal fired generator in South Australia, the 540MW Northern power station, is doing — shutting down for the winter months, when demand (and prices) are low.

When natural carbon is brought up to the surface by the winds, it is harder for the Southern Ocean to accommodate more human - generated carbon, which comes from factories, coal - fired power plants and petroleum - powered vehicle exhaust.

The socialist states at that time were producing gargantuan amounts of CO2 and other gases implicated in global warming from unfiltered coal - fired power plants and factories; when those unprofitable industries withered, countless thousands of workers went on the dole — but the air got cleaner.

If coal fired power plants are phased out (at a time when energy demand is increasing) Appalachia will see a phase in of unemployment and poverty.

However, existing pipelines do not have enough capacity to meet growing demand, particularly when coal - fired and nuclear power plants are being prematurely retired.

Last week, when the coal - fired Loy Yang power plant in Victoria tripped and went offline, the Tesla battery delivered 100 megawatts into the national electricity grid in 140 milliseconds.

90 per cent of Australian land was stolen from the people and used to meet an international carbon treaty when it should have been taken from the coal - fired power stations.

Dutch coal - fired power then powers both countries at night when demand is low.

McCarthy helped implement strict standards slashing carbon and mercury pollution from the state's «filthy five» coal - fired power plants when she served in Massachusetts.