Sentences with phrase «while coal declines»

And while coal declines, other energy industries are growing and flourishing.

Not exact matches

While the requirements have raised the cost of operating coal - fired plants, experts say a bigger factor in coal's decline has been cheaper natural gas.

While demand has declined, coal is still needed to meet America's power demand.

Coal consumption, in particular, saw steep declines by dropping 18 percent, while natural gas use dipped just 1 percent, versus 2015 rates.

Coal use declined, while solar energy production doubled.

Renewables grow at a slightly lower rate, while the share of coal - fired generation declines to 28 % in 2020 and 19 % in 2030.

While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia.

The natural gas share of total generation also grows, from 27 % in 2013 to 31 % in 2040 in the Reference case, while the coal share declines from 39 % in 2013 to 34 % in 2040, and the nuclear share drops from 19 % to 16 % over the projection period.

Coal has been in decline for quite a while.

While the past few years have seen similar increases in natural gas and oil consumption in China, 2017 will reverse a few years of flat or declining coal consumption.

While declining strongly in the industrialized regions as a result of sulfur control policies in Europe and North America, and because of economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe, emissions increase rapidly in Asia with an increase in the energy demand and coal use.

As a result, US coal production is forecast to be around 510 Mtce in 2022, equivalent to current levels, while demand declines to 470 Mtce, a drop of 1 % per year on average over the period.

«The precursor to one of the current coal credits was in place before the decline began, while the other was enacted shortly thereafter.

While the piece makes an effort to represent both sides of the issue, it leaves out a critical voice: Appalachian families whose health and livelihoods have been in steady decline because of mountaintop removal coal minining.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.

While coal is still the nation's dominant power source, reports suggest its consumption of coal hasn't grown since 2013, and may even have declined in 2015.

While slower than expected economic growth played a role in this decline, the majority was due to improved efficiency of cars, trucks, buildings and appliances and displacement of coal and oil with renewable energy and natural gas.

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While coal miners have been the backbone of West Virginia's economy for decades, the industry is declining.

Part of that decline has been due to substitution of natural gas for coal, and we can continue to play that game for a while longer, but to sustain the decline over a longer time will ultimately require additional measures.

In addition, China has met its 2020 emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while coal use in China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenya.)

While the start of the Great Recession had something to do with it, new analysis from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that, when it comes to reductions in emissions from electricity production, which dropped 8.76 % from 2008, cheaper natural gas prices were behind the decline, with natural gas displacing coal.

And while rising natural gas prices allowed coal generation to slightly increase its share of the power mix in the past two years, according to the report, the overall trend points toward coal's continued decline in the U.S.