American Electric Power, for instance, focuses more on coal, while Exelon plans on closing two of its small coal plants, Rowe notes.
If that's the case it could save the dozens of small coal plants that now look sure to close as clean air rules tighten over the next several years.
Hirs et al conclude utilities are most likely to scrap small coal plants representing about 60GW and another 72GW of plants that are more than 40 years old and thus fully depreciated.
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The facilities consisted of a small gasoline powered conveyor belt loading coal into a small mixer which ground up coal and added water.
Cleveland-Cliffs already has a small presence in the coal market.
Jones says Skyonic's exhaust scrubbing technology is cheaper than traditional wet limestone treatment, and it can be scaled to fit small and medium-size coal plants.
Considering the opportunities to treat gas that would otherwise be flared, to unlock otherwise uneconomic shale and conventional gas fields, and increasing opportunities for biomass, waste and coal conversion, small-scale GTL may well have a significant niche to fill in our emerging energy picture.
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Dust, which now goes on a national tour taking in small theatres in many of the former coal communities of the North, Midlands and Scotland, follows The Iron Lady in exposing festering sores from the strike and its aftermath.
Small caps are your best canaries in the coal mine for risk appetite and the US picture, the stocks making up the RUT have much less overseas exposure than their larger cap brethren.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
Earth Hour does lessen the electrical load of power plants to some extent, thus making a small contribution for that hour by lessening the amount of coal burned.
Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
Foster, editor of a small daily in Shenandoah, Pa. who becomes outraged when a coal miner friend dies with his crew, the result of fire-damp (carbon dioxide asphyxiation).
In Europe we also learned how even small amounts of biomass can be effectively used to replace oil, coal, and gas to heat homes, farm buildings, schools, and businesses.
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But the steady flow of coal and commerce does not stop in Broken Bow, where small stores in the center of town may be showing some improved signs of economic life, but making ends meet on the land gets harder every year.
Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.
The major reason for such a small reduction of that period, according to the IEA, was the resurgence of coal.
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Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
It is a small drift mine - a mine cut into the side of a hill, where the coal seam is accessed by walking in.
Soon, the Coal-to-Electricity Project, as it was called, opened a small radiator showroom in a storefront around the corner, on a block shared by a sex shop and a vender of funeral shrouds.
Miller is perhaps better known for journeying across small-town Texas to rally ranchers in opposition to TXU's plans for more coal-fired plants, an effort that catapulted her to the central role in a recent Robert Redford-narrated documentary, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars.
As small heat-and-power units spread to homes and offices, the inefficiency of dirty coal-fired power plants would be exposed.
Consider, for example, a spate of new studies that have found a rather convincing correlation between the presence of small particulate matter (PM2.5, the fine particles blown into the air by road traffic, coal-fired power plants, industrial manufacturing, and residential wood fuel combustion) and both obesity and diabetes.
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