He explained that under the terms of licences, the regional companies were entitled to seek alternative sources to coal-fired electricity to promote diversification in supply.
Eliminating that subsidy would dramatically increase the price of coal-fired electricity.
The Company is a major fuel supplier to the New South Wales energy industry, fuelling approximately 46% of the State's coal-fired electricity.
We have based our cities, or businesses, and our lifestyle on the convenience and relatively low cost of gasoline, coal-fired electricity, and plastic.
Some 20,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricity, or about 20 large plants, have been proposed in the last six months.
In the last 20 years, pollution, especially from the coal-fired electricity plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority, has made things worse.
Lampang has a large deposit of lignite in Mae Moh district, and hosted several coal-fired electricity generating plants, whose pollution has severely affected the local populations.
The fact that some other, less ethical electricity consumers will take the coal-fired electricity is hardly a reason why the ethical consumer would want to take it.
Grimethorpe also had the world's largest Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion generator, considered the cleanest and most efficient commercial method of producing coal-fired electricity.
The only coal-fired electricity generating plants in South Australia, in 2009 they produced 33% of the state's electricity, but over 50% of the state's CO emissions from electricity generation.
