Sentences with phrase «where coal power»

This too poses investment challenges for an electricity system where coal power plays a dominant role.

Coal energy arbitrage is actively used to aggressively deny alternative markets, where coal power actually pays neighboring markets to take its electricity instead of generating its own with alternatives.

Not exact matches

It will continue to finance new coal - fired power stations in developing countries (which is where all the demand is).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

But soon after, the multinational closed its plant in Brockville, Ontario, to relocate operations in West Virginia where coal - powered energy is much cheaper.

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amounts.

I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geo - thermals where it's applicable.»

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

The region with the highest growth rate in coal use in the IEA outlook period is in Southeast Asia, where Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia and Philippines among others plan to underpin their power generation with new coal power plants.

Where I grew up in Tennessee, a coal - fired power plant perches by the river, just down from the bridge that my wild brothers and their friends would jump off in the summer.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Scrubbed of coal dust, cooled and compressed on site, the gases are then sent down a pipeline that snakes across the countryside to a sprawling power station on the outskirts of the industrial town of Angren, where they are burned to generate electricity.

Even in parts of the country where coal makes up most of the electricity supply, EVs produce the same amount of greenhouse gases as the best gasoline - powered nonhybrid vehicles that get about 33 mpg.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

Hundreds of miles away in Oregon and Washington, states where much of the plant's power is transmitted, leaders see climate change as a reason to end their reliance on Colstrip's coal - fired electricity.

The demand for coal to produce the hydrogen needed to run gas batteries has transformed places such as Grove's own south Wales, where coalfields are expanded to meet the insatiable need for more power.

This is because new pipelines coming on - line will allow gas to replace dirtier power sources such as coal in regions where gas was previously inaccessible.

Lephalale Guesthouse is situated in Onverwacht, where you will find the power stations Matimba Medupi and Grootgeluk Coal Mine.

A shortage of the coal needed to power your towering generator might just push you into signing a law that allows child labour, even in dangerous jobs where death can occur.

The first one of these is the act of mining coal just outside your spacecraft where you need to break apart rocks and find three pieces of coal in order to continue to power the ship.

The Sierra Club has created a New Coal Plant Tracker, a state - by - state guide to where new coal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other informatCoal Plant Tracker, a state - by - state guide to where new coal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other informatcoal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other information.

This map doesn't just tell me where my power is coming from, it's drawing red lines to tell me which communities are suffering because of the coal that heats my house.

On top of the six points outlined above, there is the simple case that public funds should not be used to maintain the profitability of defunct coal power stations — but rather to accelerate the deployment of dispatchable renewables and the establishment of native coppice forestry for charcoal to be sequestered in farmland where it acts as a soil fertilizer and soil moisture regulator.

This letter to the Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, followed the Beartooth Electric Cooperative annual meeting where management repeated its contention that a planned coal - fired plant was needed (and clean), that previous purchases of power were not appropriate going forward, and that conservation was not an area for the co-op to support in any way.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

The main region of elevated SO2 in the USA image is the Ohio Valley and SW Pennsylvania, where there is a high concentration of coal - fired power plants (shown as diamond symbols on the image)

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

A further issue of nuance is that over half of Australia's coal exports is for steelmaking (coking coal) where substitution options are limited, as opposed to steaming coal for power generation.

Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas - fired power plants.

Transition risk varies widely because every power plant is unique, but coal plants that sell into a spot market are the most exposed, especially if they are in markets where renewable energy is growing, says the report from Moody's Investors Service.

The Commission added other conditions: countries should only subsidise coal and gas power capacity where there was an urgent need, such as a threat of blackouts, it said.

The fuel, a particularly costly and dirty energy source whose carbon dioxide emissions are second only to burning coal, lit up four antiquated generators on an island where power outages are common.

In other markets where windpower was significant, like the Midwest / Central and Texas regions, the large majority of negative pricing were attributed to nuclear, coal and less flexible natural gas power plant operations unable to adjust as demand changed.

Competition between natural gas and coal appeared first in the Southeast, where coal - fired power was more expensive due to the cost of transporting coal over long distances.

However, it cited wind power as a threat to nuclear and coal generation, particularly in the Midwest, where several wind projects are either in service or planned over the next few years.

Power producers say that the timetable is too stringent and that such a change would disproportionately hurt the Midwest, where most of the power is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislaPower producers say that the timetable is too stringent and that such a change would disproportionately hurt the Midwest, where most of the power is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislapower is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislation.

«An unknown amount of wood will be required for co-firing in coal plants, with estimates for Ohio alone, where the State's Public Utilities Commission has approved over 2,100 MW of biomass power, of about 20 million tons of wood required for fuel annually»

The CSIRO «MyPower» calculator shows that, even in Australia where we have cheap, high quality coal close to the main population centres and where nuclear power is strongly opposed, nuclear power would be the cheapest way to reduce emissions: http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Energy/MyPower.aspx

In Copenhagen, the major polluting governments — including the United States and China — signed a nonbinding agreement pledging to keep temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius above where they were before we started powering our economies with coal.

Kentucky Power on Aug. 28, in a twice - yearly fuel report filed at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, was essentially making the last such report where its 800 - MW, coal - fired Big Sandy Unit 2 ran for the full period before being retired.

According to Reuters, in the report Greenpeace concludes that «the last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal - fired power.»

They all came to say that they and their families deserve clean water, and that they would like the EPA to stop allowing pollutants from coal fired power plants to flow into the waters near where they fish, swim and live.

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.

As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

China has a five - year plan where it is seeking to reduce all emissions from coal - fired power and other industrial uses.

Now, imagine that on the other side of your light switch, one of two scenarios exists: the first is a «clean» world where wind turbines spin to generate electrons to power your light bulb and the other is a «dirty» world where a coal - fired power plant lumbers into operation, spewing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants into the atmosphere, to create the same level of brightness in your living room.

Carbon Tracker's modelling has shown that CCS is likely to be prohibitively expensive to significantly extend the demand profiles for coal, oil and gas, particularly in the power sector where increasingly cheap alternatives are available.

Fossil fuel power plants like oil, coal, and gas not only pollute but must have a constant delivery of fuel, which can be a challenge where transportation and pipeline infrastructure is underdeveloped.