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Good News, Bad News — Last Coal-Fired Generating Station In Alberta Closed

July 12, 2024 admin Alberta, Canada, clean power, Coal, coal power, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:53:49 +0000

In 2015, Alberta premier Rachel Notley of the New Democratic Party announced plans to completely phase out coal power by 2030 as part of its broader climate policies. Critics questioned whether it could be done. “The industry was up in arms that it wasn’t possible,” Blake Shaffer an assistant professor … [continued]

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EPA Unleashes Four-Pronged Assault on Fossil Fuel Power Pollution

April 25, 2024 admin Business, ccr, Coal, coal ash, coal power, effluent limitations, elg, EPA, fossil fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas power, ghg, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, MATS, mercury, news, power, regulations, Technology, Wastewater

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:28:19 +0000

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 25 simultaneously finalized four major environmental rules covering greenhouse gases (GHG), air toxics, wastewater discharges, and coal combustion […]

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What’s New in Coal Power Innovation?

December 1, 2023 admin ammonia, Carbon Capture, ccus, China, Coal, coal power, efficiency, engineering, Environmental, flexibility, full coverage, global coal, iea, India, innovation, International, news, power, Research and Development, supercritical, Technology, u.s., ultrasupercritical

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:15:00 +0000

Despite a dismal outlook for coal, countries with substantial coal fleets are intensifying efforts to develop new technologies and operational capabilities to improve coal power’s environmental impact

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MHI, Mitsubishi Power Report Breakthroughs for Hydrogen Combustion, Ammonia Burners

November 30, 2023 admin ammonia, Coal, coal power, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, h-25, hydrogen, jac, Japan, jera, MHI, mitsubishi power, news, power, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:23:23 +0000

Staff at the central control room at Mitsubishi Power’s T-Point 2 Combined Cycle Power Plant Validation Facility at the Takasago Hydrogen Park in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, celebrate the demonstration of a large frame gas turbine using a fuel mixture of 30% hydrogen, while connected to the local power grid. The gas turbine uses hydrogen produced and stored at the Takasago Hydrogen Park. Courtesy: Mitsubishi Power

Mitsubishi Power has successfully demonstrated partial load and full load combustion of a fuel blend with 30% hydrogen (by volume) in a grid-connected J-series Air-Cooled (JAC) gas turbine. The achievement […]

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Clean Energy Spending Grows, but Big Investments Continue in Coal and Other Fossil Fuels

May 25, 2023 admin clean energy, Coal, coal power, iea, International, international energy agency, Investments, news, Renewables, Solar

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 18:45:30 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects investment in clean energy technologies, including “renewable power, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency improvements and end-use renewables and electrification,” to exceed $1.7 trillion […]

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India Commissions First Supercritical Coal Plant Equipped with Air-Cooled Condenser

April 3, 2023 admin air cooled condenser, Business, climate change, Coal, coal power, Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, India, International, news, ntpc, sustainability, Technology, thermal cooling, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:11:00 +0000

NTPC, India’s largest energy conglomerate and its largest coal generator, in March commissioned the country’s first supercritical coal-fired plant equipped with an air-cooled condenser (ACC). The effort

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EPA Rolls Out More Stringent Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Coal Power Plants

March 8, 2023 admin bottom ash transport, Coal, coal power, effluent, elgs, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, Wastewater, zero-discharge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:53:06 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]

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2022 Set a Global Record for Coal Generation

February 1, 2023 admin Business, China, Coal, coal power, energy security, Europe, Fuel, full coverage, GERMANY, iea, India, indonesia, International, Japan, news, Renewables, South korea, Technology, turkiye

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:12:00 +0000

The recent shake-up in natural gas markets and their ensuing impact on energy security, and geopolitical tension, dramatically altered the trajectory of global coal-fired generation, sending it soaring to

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Group: EPA’s Coordinated Regulatory Assault on Coal Power Could Push Retirements Beyond 86 GW by 2030

August 4, 2022 admin ace rule, america's power, Business, carbon emissions, ccr, clean power plant, climate change, Coal, coal power, elg, Environmental, EPA, full coverage, Legal & Regulatory, MATS, news, Supreme Court, Technology, transport rule

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:30:38 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying a regulatory sweep targeting more stringent limits on traditional pollutants that could accelerate coal power plant closures. A coal generation trade group estimates that even without new rules, an estimated 86 GW of coal generation is slated to retire by 2030. While the Supreme Court in June curtailed […]

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