coal-fired power plants

4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2022 by Christian Shepard · across every show →

Everything said about coal-fired power plants, oldest first

Feb 9, 2022 neutral
Insight
Shepard: Bureaucracy and regional coal dependence stall China's renewable transition
“And to get away from that and to start relying on renewable energies, it doesn't just take you know, a technical fix. It's sort of a bureaucratic issue. You got to rework departments. There are regions of the country that have been relying on this for growth. …”
Christian Shepard Feb 9, 2022 ▶ 15:40 Greenwashing at the Beijing Olympics
Feb 9, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Shepard: Unprofitable coal plants and insufficient renewables caused power rationing in China
“China's recovery from the pandemic has been fairly rapid, particularly in, in industry. So that means that a lot of electricity was being used, particularly as you're getting into winter. And Coal prices were down, and so coal-fired power plants, they weren't …”
Christian Shepard Feb 9, 2022 ▶ 16:11 Greenwashing at the Beijing Olympics
Feb 22, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Boyle: Over 99% of US Coal Plants Cost More Than New Renewables
“99, or over 99% of coal-fired power plants are more expensive on a going-forward cost, basically, than new renewables.”
Michael Boyle Feb 22, 2023 ▶ 2:05 Stunning new data on coal vs renewables
Dec 18, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Cumulative US LNG emissions could exceed the footprint of 1,000 coal plants
“If you add up all the emissions from what's in operation, all the emissions from what's under construction, all the emissions from what is being proposed beyond that, we could be talking about the emission footprint of about a thousand, actually more than a th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:00 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
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