While Environmental Protection Agency clean air regulations such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) can explain some of the future expected displacement of coal by natural gas, shale gas economics is a significant reason for the displacement.
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In Michigan, meanwhile, the public service commission there says that the 10 percent target by 2015 is saving money for energy customers, largely because the price of future advanced coal generation is greater than the current subsidized price of green power.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
Our estimate of future coal production depends a lot on whether we think that the people of Montana will get into serious coal production.
Not so long ago, Mr. Gore was among the many environmentalists who deemed natural gas the fossil fuel of the future because it emits considerably less CO2 than coal or oil.
Bottom line: There is no way the U.S. economy can enjoy future prosperity without the big three electrical energy sources of clean coal, natural gas and nuclear.
The future is coal-based: half of Asia's primary energy consumption, and 70% of China's, is coal.
The future of a technology that converts dirty cheap coal into clean natural gas for transportation fuel was underscored last night by a Chinese investment in Synthesis Energy Systems(SYMX, NASDAQ), a small Houston company that holds a valuable license for this transforming technology.
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The future of the Daw Mill colliery in Warwickshire remains under threat despite major changes at mining company UK Coal.
While the headlines are filled with talk of solar, wind and ethanol, the oil and gas industry is quietly gambling billions of dollars that natural gas and its controversial liquefied counterpart will replace oil and coal in the energy economy of the future.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
The study identified future potential electric generation capacity of 158 gigawatts for advanced coal, 78 gigawatts for water and dry-cooled concentrated solar energy and 515 gigawatts for large nuclear reactor plants.
It is seen, therefore, as a bridge fuel, one that takes us from coal and oil to some mix of carbon-free energy in the future.
While TXU will scale back its coal facilities, coal will still be a major part of the state's energy future, at least for the next several years.
But those utilities are now coming around, noting that the price of natural gas is on par with that of coal, and that they will mostly construct gas plants for the foreseeable future.
But even operators of coal-fired power plants understand that this isn't the way of the future.
Mr Abbott kicked off his attack in the Hunter Valley, a coal-mining region of New South Wales, where he branded the tax a threat to coal's future.
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Gov. David Dewhurst said the problem appeared be inadequate winterization and that the trouble centered on two new coal-fired plants owned by Luminant ( a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU) which suffered a broken pipe and a frozen pipe.
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While both coal and gas play important roles in our energy future, and there is another agenda to regulate coal-fired power plants out of existence, the claim is contrary to the well-accepted fact that the greenhouse gas impacts of burning natural gas are less than coal.
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