Cheap natural gas and environmental regulations are causing utilities to shut down coal-fired power plants.
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.
The country keeps adding new capacity: estimates run as high as two coal-fired power plants per week.
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It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
Existing coal- and oil-fired power plants must reduce average emission levels of the least 12% of current plants.
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That means storage technology would qualify as well as, say, gas-fired power plants.
In addition, TXU said it could bring back into service several natural gas-fired power plants that are now offline.
Concerns about the effect of new coal-fired power plants on the destabilizing climate.
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As small heat-and-power units spread to homes and offices, the inefficiency of dirty coal-fired power plants would be exposed.
Many of those contracts promise to supply electricity below the cost of energy produced by natural-gas fired power plants.
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Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.
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Rolling back coal-related rules and regulations while asking natural gas-and-nuclear-fired power plants to meet stricter standards is not realistic.
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At the other end of the spectrum: Peter Cartwright of Calpine, a firm that develops and runs gas-fired power plants.
Mr. BASKIND: We're talking about coal-fired power plants a lot right now because they emit a lot of carbon dioxide.
This was a big deal, because Sempra, the nation's largest gas utility, was building a fleet of gas-fired power plants.
Most of the demand growth will come from natural gas-fired power plants, which emit 60% less carbon than coal burners.
Over this same period of time, electricity net generation from natural gas-fired power plants increased by approximately 35 percent.
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Moreover, almost all of the gas-fired power plants that will be built will meet these standards without any additional costs.
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The primary reason for emissions remaining on a downward trajectory this century is the increasing number of natural gas-fired power plants.
Gas-fired power plants supplied 31 percent of U.S. electricity in 2012, according to BNEF, up from 22 percent five years ago.
Provincial governments will also use the funds to build more efficient heating systems and to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The administration estimates the savings will be equal to 1.8 billion barrels of oil and shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants.
Of course, new gas fired power plants will initially be built in regions with less excess capacity (post coal plant retirement).
Figure 2 shows that electricity net generation from coal-fired power plants declined by an estimated 25 percent between 2007 and 2012.
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By reducing the need for coal-fired power plants, China Longyuan also earns carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
The Steel City ranks seventh on the list of most polluted, followed by another metro chock-full of coal-fired power plants: Birmingham, Ala.
Big news that the Tennessee Valley Authority is closing 18 of its oldest and dirtiest boilers at its coal-fired power plants.
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In IGCC, the coal is not burned directly as it is in normal coal-fired power plants, but is converted into synthesis gas.
In this wave, additional natural gas-fired power plants will be built to replace retiring coal plants and meet future increases in demand.
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