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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000

Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]

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IEA Says Global Coal Use at All-Time High, Will Remain Strong

December 18, 2024 admin 0 Comments China, Coal, coal 2024, EIA, iea, International, news, power, Power Demand, u.s., uk

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:57:12 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) in a new report said global use of coal, including for power generation, is expected to reach a record 8.77 billion tonnes this year. The […]

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Explosion at Coal Power Plant in South Africa Injures Nine

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments Accidents, Business, Coal, coal power, eskom, Explosion, full coverage, injuries, International, matla, news, O&M, Safety, South Africa, Technology, transformers

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:56:44 +0000

A transformer explosion at Eskom’s coal-fired 3.6-GW Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Dec. 12 injured nine employees, including one critically. The incident, caused by a ruptured high-pressure […]

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Report Says $6.5 Billion in Unburned Coal Sitting at U.S. Power Plants

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments Business, Coal, EIA, ieefa, natural gas, news, power, stockpiles

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:04:19 +0000

A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) says U.S. coal-fired power plants have as much as $6.5 billion of unused coal inventory, based on […]

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Duke Energy Will Replace A Coal Generating Station With Battery Storage

December 7, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Coal, duke energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, utilities

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:12 +0000

Duke Energy is beginning to embrace grid scale battery storage after dancing around the idea for many years.

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Largest Pennsylvania Coal-Fired Plant Will Convert to Natural Gas

December 6, 2024 admin Business, clean air act, Coal, edison international, emissions, EPA, Gas, General Electric, homer city, natural gas, news, NRG, pollution, power, smokestacks

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:37:25 +0000

A major Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, the largest coal-burning facility in the state before it was closed in 2023, may be converted to a natural gas-fired station. Officials in Homer […]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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Cuba Hit by Nationwide Blackout, Restoration Achieved in 24 Hours

December 5, 2024 admin Coal, cuba blackout, Distributed Generation, electricity grid resilience, energy crisis, energy infrastructure, energy security, full coverage, Gas, International, national grid failure, news, power outages in cuba, power restoration timeline, thermal power plants, utility management

Credit to Author: Amaury Perez Sanchez| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:19:53 +0000

Cuba suffered another massive blackout on Wednesday, Dec. 4—the latest in a series of devastating grid disruptions that have plagued the island in recent years. While authorities reported swift restoration—completed […]

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North Dakota Carbon Capture Project in Limbo After Canada Group’s Exit

December 5, 2024 admin Canada, Carbon Capture, CCS, climate change, Coal, news, NORTH DAKOTA, power, project tundra, tc energy corp.

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:24:04 +0000

A Canada-based energy group reportedly has withdrawn from a $2 billion carbon capture project in North Dakota. Project Tundra, which aimed to capture carbon dioxide from flue gas from two […]

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Hard Sail Power Might Have Niche In Roro Vehicle Shipping

December 1, 2024 admin boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, natural gas, ocean shipping, Oil, Shipping, shipping emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000

Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]

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