The planet is running out of time to eliminate its reliance on fossil fuels, and the coal that keeps the lights on in Kentucky is one of the state’s biggest contributors to global warming.
Warming temperatures in Kentucky will bring more extreme weather events.
rejoined under the Biden administration, is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Brown coal plant in 2016, it’s partnering with a merchant power company to build a 125-megawatt facility for specific large customers and it has a solar share program for residential customers.
Late last year, PPL updated its climate action plan to align with the Paris Agreement and limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius as well as get to net zero emissions by 2050.
Climate scientists are concerned with the amount of carbon we have left to burn without increasing global temperatures more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Sinclair, vice president of energy supply and analysis for LG&E KU, said it could be one of the last remaining coal plants in the country at that time.
“Net zero is not the same as absolute zero.
The forecast depends on how many additional customers LG&E is expecting, as well as fuel prices.
Sinclair, with LG&E, said the forecast they offered to utility regulators was a simple analysis that is not reflective of how the company plans to implement renewable resources.
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The Biden administration’s Build Back Better bill included a $150 billion clean electricity program that would have incentivized utilities to stop burning fossil fuels and replace their generating units with wind, solar and nuclear energy, West Virginia Sen.
Tax credits and incentives are the carrot, but there’s also the stick: putting a price on the carbon that companies put into the atmosphere.
The November report from the World Benchmarking Alliance found 47 of the 50 utilities haven’t yet aligned their carbon reduction plans with Paris Agreement goals.
If approved, the 100-megawatt plant in Hardin County would be one of at least four utility-scale projects coming online in Kentucky in the next three years.
Though the drought has some roots in wider climate issues, Carol says much of the groundwater in her area has dried up because nearby coal mines and power plants were using immense quantities of water for many years.
“We were selling our water to Navajo Generating Station and the Mojave Generating Station,” she said.
In 1983, two southwest Virginia coal miners told an Appalshop filmmaker they were worried about a slate of budget cuts to social services by then-president Ronald Reagan.
In the film, the two miners are sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, their brows furrowed.