Coal Plant

“China is actively reducing the lowest level that coal plants can run out. Now, this is not just a policy choice. It's also a technical requirement. So it means they want Coal plants to be able to throttle down in the middle of the day further than they had to …”

“Have clients would like, had a client buy a coal plant. And we were advising them on the transaction based on, they just like showed up and they're like, yeah, we want to buy power assets.”

“It's by far and away the biggest source of electricity in China, and they built a hundred coal plants last year.”

“It's cheaper to put in a solar and battery farm than a new coal plant.”

“If you are charging your car with energy produced from a coal plant, you've actually got a coal fired car there, right? If you're charging your car from the solar units on top of your house, and you're charging it your own garage, well, then you've got a truly…”

“We are gonna get to coal plants and natural gas plants, a hundred percent certain in the next decade.”

“And when you look at the delta between, if I move from a coal plant to a natural gas plant, and a natural gas plant to a renewables plant, That first step has 2.5 times the environmental impact.”

“One really great example is Excel Energy. So they do see a large forecasted increase in electricity demand, but yet they still plan to retire all of their coal plants by the early 20 thirties and install significant amounts of new renewables.”

“The radiation exposure from living next to a coal plant is higher than the radiation exposure from living next to a nuclear power plant.”

“Malta's plant integrates really well into the existing legacy grid system because our system is, is comprised of parts and pieces, systems and subsystems that are used in power plants all over the world, including the United States. So for grid operators and u…”

“Not even not building a lot, not building any, period. Like, there are, there have not been any proposed coal plants even before that proposed rule went in place.”

“I think probably more for gas than for coal. I mean, coal's on its way out. You know, I mean, and there might be a handful of plants that end up getting tied up into the scenario you just described, but compared to existing gas plants, it's a relatively small …”

“Right now, you can build a solar plant for a billion dollars a gigawatt. You can build a wind plant for 1.2 billion dollars a gigawatt. A coal plant will cost you about three and a half billion dollars a gigawatt”

“The only reason they are still in existence is because they have to provide heat to a paper mill, or to some other industrial facility, and those are things we can tackle right away”

“In twenty-twenty-two, wind, solar, and hydro collectively generated more electricity than the nation's coal plants.”

“One of the things we wanted to highlight with this report, again, with the local renewables, is you can potentially reuse the interconnection rights that utilities have at these coal plants and transfer them to new renewables that can get ahead of the queue an…”

“Collectively, these coal plants hold about a hundred and seventy six billion dollars in debt, and there are a lot of efforts to figure out how to, what to do with this debt, and the federal government has created some programs in the Inflation Reduction Act to…”

“The renewable projects, they bring a lot of short-term employment opportunities associated with construction, but the long-term operation and maintenance jobs that come with new clean energy projects don't really come close to the amount of jobs that are suppo…”

“And these coal plants in the old days maybe stored 60 days worth of coal on site. These days they store like 15 to 30 days.”

“The problem is, for most coal plants, what's coming out, it's full of garbage. Like, it's full of all sorts of It's full of contaminants, it's full of particulates, and it messes with the amine separation process, so you can't just straight off use that, and t…”

“He spent a lot of his time at this industrial park, at a coal plant that generates 15% of the island's electricity.”

“And it's the largest power plant on Oahu which is the largest Hawaiian island by population. There's about a million people Benefiting from the power this coal plant creates.”

“It's going to have to shut down next year in September, 20, 22.”

“And then this capital A energy storage battery, which is in many ways the linchpin of the whole plan for Oahu, because it's located just down the street from the coal plant. So it plugs into the same part of the grid that the coal plant used to serve, and it's…”

“If things don't go smoothly, it certainly could give fodder to people who say that, hey, it's dangerous to move too fast on this stuff, or, you know, we need these coal plants, they're reliable, and this new, newfangled stuff isn't. You know, so that, that wou…”