The Democrats are fielding Heidi Heitkamp, a cheery former state attorney-general who now helps run a low-emission coal-fired power plant.
If we're like Canada, it might be our biggest coal-fired power plant.
MidAmerican Energy is the operator of a 1600 megawatt four unit coal-fired power plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa, commonly known as Walter Scott, Jr.
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The typical coal-fired power plant, for example, loses over half the input energy as waste heat before the first electron zips out of the facility.
They include a new sea port at Hambantota, in the president's constituency in the south, an oil-storage facility, a new airport, a coal-fired power plant and an expressway.
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Electric cars help fight global warming because they contribute less greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than gasoline-powered cars, even if the electricity is made in a coal-fired power plant.
The company had already planned to retire another coal-fired power plant in Kentucky that is covered by the settlement, even though it was not required to stop using coal.
Specifically, the regulations require that biomass facilities must be 50 percent efficient slightly better than a state-of-the-art, coal-fired power plant to be eligible for one-half of a renewable energy certificate (REC) per megawatt-hour.
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Mr Finnie was referring to the application by Ayrshire Power to build a coal-fired power station at the plant in North Ayrshire, during a member's debate on 15 September 2010.
After tens of billions of euros have been spent on these systems, raising consumer electricity prices in the process, not a single coal or gas-fired power plant has been taken off line.
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In a second, unanimous ruling involving Duke Energy (nyse: DKE - news - people ), the justices said that before making major modifications to coal-fired power plants, plant owners must have a permit, which would require that the facility be outfitted with anti-pollution controls.
As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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The biggest project will be the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station, a coal-fired plant that was decommissioned in the 1980s.
But he said for it to be "fully convincing", Mr Cameron should be clear he would rule out all "dirty" coal fired power stations - including plans for a new plant at Kingsnorth, Kent.
All of which is fine and dandy except that, if rigged to the average coal-fired power station, this process might use a quarter of the energy the plant produces.
Of course, new gas fired power plants will initially be built in regions with less excess capacity (post coal plant retirement).
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