Sentences with phrase «with coal utility»

Chris Horner is a senior fellow at CEI and the lead lawyer at ATI, a close CEI affiliate known for its litigious harassment of climate scientist Michael Mann alongside Virginia attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who just worked with coal utility companies to kill Virginia's renewable energy law.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

It's also difficult to buy coal futures, says Peterson, as utilities typically negotiate prices directly with the producer.

Utility - scale solar is now cost - competitive with wind and natural gas — and it's cheaper than coal, even without subsidies.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put measures in place to deal with the coal shortages at seven of its power stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would not result in load - shedding.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

The coal industry is contracting as plants retire and utilities replace them with natural gas and renewables

Since 1998, the company has provided our utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

Since 1998, the company has provided its utility customers with more than 1750 reactor years of fuel — equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

In the last year, tons of big - cap companies, many with dividends, have hit temporary rough spots... Coal, gold and copper miners, natural gas drillers, utilities, the list goes on and on.

The main concern as with a lot of utilities I looked at is that they're 50 % dependent on coal as an energy source and more regulations are totally coming.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

Kansas is rated as the state with the 3rd best wind power potential in the U.S. Kansas currently has 364 megawatts (MW) of utility - connected power, equivalent to about 1/2 of the generating capacity of one of the proposed coal - fired plants.

The ads were sponsored by a local group but paid for with contributions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, and a Kansas utility, Sunflower Electric Power.

FRANKFURT, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Germany utilities are heaping pressure on the government before September polls to soften green policies that are hurting their profits, with one company hinting it could even move gas or coal plants to countries where it can still make money.

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.

Other states (Oregon, Washington and Minnesota, another 6 % of U.S. GDP) have banned their utilities from signing new power purchase agreements with coal plants.

«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»

Surprisingly, TEP's 2017 energy mix is 69 % coal and 11 % gas, with utility - scale solar power at 7 %, and distributed solar at only 4 %.

(Radio Iowa) • Michigan utilities weigh the cost of renewable energy with natural gas as they replace coal.

It also aligns with the assessment of clean energy and environmental groups, natural gas trade groups and utilities that have invested in more natural gas generation, and the majority of energy regulators and economists, who have fought FirstEnergy's and the Trump administration's attempts to bail out coal and nuclear interests, largely in the PJM region.

The utility wants to replace three retiring coal - fired power plants with the new natural gas plant in St. Clair County.

Implementing those regulations along with other EPA regulations — such as the utility MACT rule, Cross State Air Pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards — would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult, while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.

The study (PDF) singles out a Facebook facility that relies on a coal - powered utility, along with Apple's North Carolina data center, also powered by coal.

Utilities with an installed coal capacity of 10,000 MW invariably burn over 20 million tons of coal per year.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

In February 2008, investment banks Morgan Stanley, Citi, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bank of America announced that any future lending for coal - fired power would be contingent on the utilities demonstrating that the plants would be economically viable with the higher costs associated with future federal restrictions on carbon emissions.

Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.

Duke Energy, another major southeastern utility, followed with an announcement that it was considering the closure of seven coal - fired units in North and South Carolina alone.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»

While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

A day later, Enmax Corp., Calgary's utility, announced it was mulling over plans to build a 400 - megawatt coal plant in southeast Alberta in partnership with Fording Coal Ltd., a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Lcoal plant in southeast Alberta in partnership with Fording Coal Ltd., a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific LCoal Ltd., a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Ltd..

This production and reserve base allows Murray Energy to provide electric utility customers with low cost, reliable, and high quality coal supplies.

Hence, with Gas (and Coal Oil) utilities constantly rounded upon by «greenhouse protestations», Uranium is firmly entrenched NOW in the path to a persistent future.

And many don't trust utility and grid operators because they believe they're tied in too deep with coal and other brown power interests, the Koch brothers, or some other boogie - man.

If she has her way, and utilities need to shut down their coal - fueled power plants and replace them with renewable facilities, we know the costs will be considerably higher — which some believe to be a worthwhile trade - off — but, what will that really look like?

«If PacifiCorp's analysis reveals that, yes, our coal plants are costing families, then we as a state need to work with this utility on how we can continue to be an energy exporter, support workers and create new opportunities in Wyoming,» Connie Wilbert, Sierra Club's Wyoming chapter director, said in a statement.

That is two years earlier than a state - imposed deadline that requires the utility to be coal - free by 2027, when its contract with Utah's Intermountain Power Project is up.

It is time for Southeastern utilities to seriously evaluate the uncertain costs associated with maintaining coal - fired power plants, especially in light of these exceptionally low cost renewable energy resources.

The refundable tax credits were intended to make Virginia coal cheaper for utilities to buy, and thus more competitive with coal mined in other states.

In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change.