This is partially being done by switching coal-fired plants to the cleaner-burning natural gas.
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In other words, by regulatory fiat, the EPA is flirting with shutting down coal-fired plants completely.
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Phase one would include the construction of two 750-megawatt coal-fired turbines, superefficient, just like LS'.
It produces more juice (5 billion kilowatt-hours per year) than a typical coal-fired plant.
Rogers whips out a map showing the states with more than 50% coal-fired generation.
Experts predict that 10%to 20% of coal-fired generating capacity will be retired by 2016.
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Coal-fired plants lost 10 billion yuan during the first four months of the year.
They found some papers on coal-fired fuel cells but decided they probably wouldn't work.
Cheap natural gas and environmental regulations are causing utilities to shut down coal-fired power plants.
She comes from an energy family her dad worked for the local coal-fired plant.
But even operators of coal-fired power plants understand that this isn't the way of the future.
Even the company's well-meaning initiative to save the world from coal-fired power plants got tossed.
When pressed, Stephen Tetlow, chief executive of IMechE, offered the example of coal-fired power stations.
He said the development of carbon capture should be restricted to existing coal-fired stations.
Your electric grid has only so many windmills attached, and its marginal producer is a coal-fired plant.
The country keeps adding new capacity: estimates run as high as two coal-fired power plants per week.
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The South African government says almost 90% of the country's electricity is generated by coal-fired power stations.
Coal-fired utilities, meanwhile, say that the rules are jeopardizing reliability, and they need more time to comply.
Chief executives of utilities that support stronger standards for coal-fired plants, including Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group Inc.
The world adds 100 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity every year, much of it in China and India.
In theory, there is a long queue of coal-fired power stations waiting to be built in America.
But gas could play a bigger role: there is a third more gas-powered than coal-fired capacity available.
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Angela Knight gives two reasons: EU directives on emissions are difficult to meet with so many coal-fired stations.
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Globally, coal-fired electricity generation rose by an estimated 6% from 2010 to 2012 , faster than non-fossil energy.
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It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
Depending upon its application, gas produces roughly 50-70% of the carbon dioxide emissions from an equivalent coal-fired plant.
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Germany's decision to scrap all nuclear power and build more coal-fired power stations can only boost production further.
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He said that by 2020, all new coal-fired power stations must be fitted with "carbon capture and storage".
Germany will emit an extra 370m tonnes of CO2 as it replaces nuclear with gas- and coal-fired plants.
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It has a capacity of 525, 000 metric tons a year but needs to convert to energy-efficient coal-fired boilers.
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