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  • verb To fire (different types of fuel) together.

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Examples

  • Major Utilities in Ohio have already proposed to "co-fire" giant coal plants with trees, and in some cases to switch their fuel entirely to "whole tree chipping."

    Richard Wiles: Forests Are New Coal in House and Senate Climate Bills Richard Wiles 2010

  • To quickly gain further economic and environmental advantages, the larger, newer coal plants that remain in operation should be required to co-fire with natural gas.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: King Coal 2009

  • The objective of the utility was to co-fire the Bio-Coal together with fossil coal.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • To quickly gain further economic and environmental advantages, the larger, newer coal plants that remain in operation should be required to co-fire with natural gas.

    Climate Progress 2009

  • As well as the ability to co-fire biomass in its coal plants,

    FWi - All News 2008

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