Fossil fuels such as coal, crude oil, and natural gas are widely used around the world for electricity generation. Coal is formed from ancient plant matter and is mined in many countries including Germany, Turkey, the United States, and Africa. The Philippines relies on several large coal power plants like the 600 MW Masinloc plant and the 1,216 MW Sual plant. While fossil fuels provide inexpensive electricity, their use contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution problems.

1. Description
How it works?
Advantages
Disadvantages
Sources in the Philippines
Places in the world…

2. Description
Coal
Crude Oil Natural Gas

3. Description
Coal
• forms from plants such as ferns, moss and trees
• when plants die, they are slowly covered with
sediment and pressed deep into the earth
• organic matter becomes richer in carbon and
hydrogen
• the purest form of coal is graphite, which consists
almost entirely of carbon

4. Description
Crude Oil
• also called petroleum
• encompasses multiple types of hydrocarbons,
which are compounds consisting hydrogen and
carbon
• forms mainly from marine vegetation and bacteria
• used in the production of plastic and medications
among many products

5. Description
Natural Gas
• forms mainly from the remains of plankton
• consisting mostly of methane and is often found on
top of deposits of petroleum due to its lower density
• it burns cleaner than coal and petroleum
• commonly used in residential applications for
home heating

6. How it works?
Burn Fuel Heat water
to make
steam
Steam turns
turbines
Turbines
Electrical turn
power generators

7. Advantages
Very large amounts of electricity can be generated
in one place using coal, fairly cheaply
Transporting oil and gas to the power stations is
easy and inexpensive
Gas-fired power stations are very efficient.
A fossil-fuelled power station can be built almost
anywhere, so long as you can get large quantities
of fuel to it

8. Advantages
Burning any fossil fuel produces carbon dioxide,
which contributes to the "greenhouse effect"
It also produces sulfur dioxide, a gas that
contributes to acid rain
Coal-fired power stations need huge amounts of
fuel
Mining coal can be difficult and dangerous. Strip
mining destroys large areas of the landscape.
Fossil fuels are not a renewable energy resource

9. Places in the world that use fossil fuel
Coal-Fired Plants in Germany - Hessen

10. Sources in the Philippines
• ILOILO CITY, Philippines-Protests against the coal-fired
power plant here continued to mount after the
management of the company denied that foul-smelling
emissions came from their facility during a test run last
month.

11. Sources in the Philippines
The 600 MW Masinloc Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant

12. Sources in the Philippines
The 1,216 MW Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant

13. Sources in the Philippines
Calaca, Batangas power plant

14. Places in the world that use fossil fuel
Coal-Fired Plants in Turkey

15. Places in the world that use fossil fuel
Coal-Fired Power Plants in Arizona & New
Mexico

16. Places in the world that use fossil fuel
Coal-Fired Power Plants in Africa - other
countries

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