It builds nearly two new coal fired electricity plants each week.

His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.

A typical example is the increase in electricity produced by gas fired generating plants rather than coal fired plants.

The majority of fossil fuel usage for the generation of electricity was coal and gas.

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(g) Experience in the design and operation of plants for the generation of electricity with a reduced emission of pollutants (clean coal combustion, co generation, fuel cells)

More windmills or more coal fired power plants.

The base load power, too, is predominantly based on fossil fuels, with around 39 of global electricity generation sourced from burning coal.

South Africa, for example, reported that coal currently provides more than 90 per cent of the energy for its electricity generation and is expected to dominate power generation until 2040.

Clean coal technologies were at least 25 percent more efficient than traditional coal fired power plants.

The Canadian economy was in recession, above average winter temperatures were experienced in many regions of the country and high water levels allowed hydro electricity to temporarily displace electricity normally produced from coal fired generators.

As of 2007, coal generates 48.5 of U.S. electricity.

Even the most modern and advanced conventional coal fired power plants emit over 15 times more CO2 per unit of electricity than renewable energy systems, and more than twice the amount of efficient gas fired power stations.

So how else could we replace the coal fired power plants?

South Africa reported on its 60 billion tonnes of coal reserves and its dependence on this energy source for 90 per cent of its electricity generation.

Hansen condemns coal fired power plants as death factories, and his belief that coal is evil is widely shared.

As inexpensive natural gas has eroded coal s traditional share of electricity generation in the US, importing cheap coal from the US has become more attractive to Europe.

Coal oil lamp we didn't have electricity in our farm home.

For example, a recent report by Trucost estimates that coal fired power generation worldwide may be responsible for around 1 trillion of damage due to climate change and air pollution.

China is now estimated to build two new coal fired power plants each week.

Greater sharing of existing cleaner coal technologies is needed, as is continued development of next generation clean coal plants.

In 1902, Nokia added electricity generation to its business activities.

That would constitute a significant fraction of global electricity generation.

Coal exists in vast quantities, and generates almost half of the planet's electricity.

Suppose coal produces electricity at a cost of 0.06 per kilowatt hour, while solar power costs 0.16 kilowatt hour. The tax on coal based electricity would have to be 0.10 kilowatt hour.

For greenhouse gas abatement, this means opening up the opportunities for cleaner energy forms (for example, natural gas and solar power) as well as giving co generation and demand management options the capacity to compete with traditional coal based electricity generation.

Methane from the coal industry is to be used for energy generation.

All energy generators, including coal and gas fired plants, make major demands on water resources.

But one day of coal adds up to one hell of a lot of carbon dioxide in a normal one gigawatt coal fired plant.

But one day of coal adds up to one hell of a lot of carbon dioxide in a normal one gigawatt coal fired plant.

Another priority issue was the supply of oil for electricity generation.

Indeed, coal is on track to provide more than half of Germany s electricity supply.

Banpu Group, a coal and electricity company, has mining operations in Indonesia and China.

And then the other point is, we have to have sustainable means of power generation anyway, electricity generation.

If he were truly concerned about global warming, how could he have endorsed the construction of coal fired electricity plants, even if those plants use more efficient technologies than have been employed in the past?

The most important technology for the safe environmental use of coal is the capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide from coal fired power plants.

Many coal fired power plants would be uncompetitive if they were required to internalize these costs.

The US gets 50 of its electricity from coal but less than 0.5 from wind.

All the world's photovoltaic solar panels generate as much electricity as two coal power plants.

Governments have far more cost effective electricity generation technologies at their disposal.

Both depend on imported oil for transport and on domestic coal for power generation.

The US auto industry should be re tooled for low carbon emission automobiles, either plug in hybrids or pure battery operated vehicles. Either technology will depend on a national electricity grid that uses low emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal fired plants that capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions.

The US used to generate about half its electricity from coal, and roughly 20 from gas.

So far there is only three sources of baseload electricity coal, some gas, nuclear and hydro.