There were no plans, he said, to extend the life of old coal power stations.
Ayrshire Power withdrew its planning application for a new coal power plant at Hunterston last summer.
Eskom says it risks running out of electricity while it builds two coal power stations.
And to help replace the coal power it will build 200 mw of wind and solar installations.
Because coal power is cheaper than natural gas power, the switch will jack up your utility bills.
The graphic above shows suitability of sites for advanced coal power plants using geologic storage for carbon emissions.
The government is building out more coal power plants to provide electricity to a demanding and growing middle class.
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What most concerns environmentalists now about coal power is carbon dioxide, or CO2, the gas that causes global warming.
Its start-up costs are as high as drilling for oil, and may be higher than for coal power stations.
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But coal power is getting cleaner, at least at one Pittsburgh-area power plant.
Yet the levelized cost of solar photovoltaic power is more than eight times the levelized cost of coal power.
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"Our concern is that this technology is used to justify the construction of more coal power plants, " says Tobias Munchmeyer.
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Together we should take the next steps: Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions.
Last month Schrder picked a Veba man, Werner Mller, a board member at Veba's coal power operations, to become Germany's Economics Minister.
The government would grant clean energy credits to operators of non-coal power plants on a scale according to the cleanliness of their generation.
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If Japan were to phase out its nuclear power fleet, it would likely ramp up production from its natural gas-fired and coal power plants.
In Florida, for example, the state Public Service Commission (PSC) is hostile to inexpensive coal power while at the same time championing more expensive alternatives.
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Like nuclear power plants, advanced coal power plants can only be sited within about 20 miles of a large body of water to meet cooling needs.
The EPA is saying with a straight face that natural gas combined cycle is an emission reduction system that has been adequately demonstrated for coal power plants.
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With old coal power stations being closed down Britain needs new energy plants - and wind farms, gas and nuclear power stations are seen as the answers.
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Neil Crumpton, FoE Cymru's energy campaigner, said that using the imported LNG was "little better than the emissions from coal burnt in new coal power station technology".
The first action by Climate Camp for Climate Action was at Drax coal power station in 2006, followed by Heathrow airport in 2007 and Kingsnorth coal power station in 2008.
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For one thing, there's disagreement over how much it should cost for the Capitol Power Plant--which provides heating and cooling power to Congress--to use cleaner-burning natural gas instead of coal power.
Moreover, coal-fired electricity producers in Europe have invested heavily in new clean-coal technologies over euro7 billion in the past three years in order to make coal power plants more efficient and environmentally friendly.
The scheme named the Captain Clean Energy Project, would see the creation of a new 570MW "low emission" coal power station with CO2 pumped into storage in offshore depleted gas fields.
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Coal-fired power plants and coal mines are being shuttered at an unprecedented pace mainly because the price of natural gas has dropped so far that it has made coal power uncompetitive.
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Nine gigawatts of coal power plants retired in 2012.
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None of this is likely to happen because it would interfere with the larger Administration priority to kill as much coal power as rapidly as possible to serve the global warming agenda.
That minimal upward trend may well turn negative soon as a result of recent advances in energy technology and the discovery of massive natural gas deposits that can replace carbon-intensive coal power.
But four out of nine coal power stations and a lignite unit currently under construction are unlikely to be commissioned as originally scheduled in 2011 and 2012, due to a problem with boiler construction.
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