Power Plant Regulations News
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NERC Assessment ‘Especially Dire Warning’ of Persistent Reliability Threats
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) CEO Jim Matheson recently (May 17) issued the following statement after the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) summer 2023 reliability assessment.“This report is an especially dire warning that America’s ability to keep the lights on has been jeopardized,” Matheson said. “That’s unacceptable. The decisions we make today ...
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New Hydro Power Plant With Horizontal Rake Set Into Operation
Just before the international lockdown a new DIVE power plant has been set into operation. Hydro power plant Touille ist located at the river Salat with a capacity of 600kW at 7m of head. The runner diameter is 1450mm. For fish migration safety a new horizontal rake was installed. The rake is also designed by DIVE Turbinen GmbH & Co. KG. DIVE Turbinen GmbH & Co. KG is a german turbine ...
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LAWI is developing a new advanced control algorithm LAWI EtaLogic
Process control of biomass and waste-to-energy power plants is a complicated process, in which numerous process parameters have interactions with each other. Biomass and waste fuels are characterized to have various and sometimes unpredictable quality, heating value, moisture and even sudden changes to power generation demand. These fuel properties cause a lot of difficulties for the tuning and ...
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“Green Gas From Green Power”: E.ON Launches Nationwide Initiative
Together with the German regional energy suppliers Avacon, Bayernwerk, E.DIS and HanseWerk, E.ON has launched its new “Green gas from green power” initiative to reduce CO2 emissions in the heating, transport and industrial sectors.Power-to-Gas (P2G) – plants convert locally produced energy from wind and solar into “green” gas, i.e. hydrogen or – in a subsequent step – into synthetic methane. Both ...
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Alpiq Creates Structures For Future Growth
Swiss energy company Alpiq notes that the digital transformation of the energy world covers the entire value chain from electricity generation to consumption. The integration of new renewable energies as well as the shift from traditional end customers towards prosumers present new and complex challenges to infrastructure in the energy industry. The Commerce & Trading and Energy Services ...
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Water associations challenge EPA steam power plant rule
In a brief filed Monday in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the American Water Works Association and the National Association of Water Companies challenged a new rule on steam power plant discharges, arguing that it does not adequately protect drinking water consumers. In challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final Effluent Limitation Guidelines for Steam Power Plants ...
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The US oil and natural gas producers want to be part of the climate solution
In an era when carbon based energy is under scrutiny for impacts to climate change, the American Petroleum Institute is looking to be part of the solution rather than simply named as the problem. The US oil and natural gas producers have had positive impacts to the US economy while helping to achieve substantial emissions reductions. A global climate conference will be taking place later this ...
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AWWA praises collaboration on steam electric power plant rule
The American Water Works Association today praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule to reduce pollutants from steam electric power plants, noting that the final rule contains significant improvements in addressing bromide discharges. EPA on Wednesday announced the first-ever national limitations for pollutants under the Clean Water Act to control the amount of heavy ...
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Obama calls out fossil fuel interests for fighting solar
President Barack Obama on Monday accused fossil fuel interests and other critics of his energy policies of trying to restrict consumers from accessing solar, wind and other renewable sources in order to protect the status quo. "That's not the American way," Obama said in a speech at a green energy conference in Las Vegas. "This is about the past versus the future. America believes in the ...
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Obama Administration Takes Historic Action on Climate Change/Clean Power Plan to protect public health, spur clean energy investments and strengthen U.S. leadership
President Obama announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final Clean Power Plan today, which will cut U.S. carbon pollution from the power sector by 870 million tons, or 32 percent below 2005 levels, in 2030. Power plants are the largest drivers of climate change in the United States, accounting for roughly one-third of all carbon pollution emissions, but there were no national ...
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Study: Cutting Carbon Dioxide saves 3,500 US Lives s Year
The Obama Administration's hotly debated plan to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the nation's power plants will save about 3,500 lives a year by cutting back on other types of pollution as well, a new independent study concludes. A study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced - an anticipated byproduct ...
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Obama drives ahead on climate with government emissions cuts
President Barack Obama ordered the federal government on Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half over the next decade, driving his climate change agenda forward despite percolating challenges from Republican-led states. By curtailing pollution within the U.S. government, Obama sought to increase political pressure on other nations to deal seriously with climate change. The ...
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Coal casts a cloud over Germany`s energy revolution
The energy market in Germany’s saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply − leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant CO2 emissions fell by only 1%. Wind, solar, hydropower and biomass reached a new ...
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TODAY: EPA`s Office of Air and Radiation to Hold Media Call on Carbon Pollution
Today at 12:30 p.m. EST, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Janet McCabe will hold a press call on carbon pollution from power plants. At the direction of President Obama and after an unprecedented outreach effort, EPA released the proposed Clean Power Plan in June 2014, which for the first time seeks to cut carbon ...
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RGGI States Provide Supplemental Comments Supporting EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
Today, the nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation’s first market-based emissions trading program to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, submitted supplemental joint comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting the proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP). The supplemental comments build on ...
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Power Plant Rule Is Flexible But Reductions Are Aggressive, Complex, State Officials Say
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed carbon dioxide standards for existing power plants provide states tremendous flexibility, but the emissions targets are complex and very aggressive, officials said at a forum Oct. 14. States are still assessing how the EPA's proposed rule will affect their power sector and which of the options the agency poses will be the most attractive, state ...
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EPA Power Plant Proposal Could Fast-Track Natural Gas Pipeline Projects, S&P Says
The Environmental Protection Agency's recently proposed regulations for cutting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's existing power plants could help fast-track construction of new natural gas pipelines, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. The sharp increase in domestic natural gas production in recent years is already driving more demand for new pipeline infrastructure. ...
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Power Plant Rule Would Threaten Economy With No Climate Benefit, Industry Says
An Environmental Protection Agency proposal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants would drive up electricity costs and cause significant job losses without providing a tangible climate benefit, coal-reliant states and industry groups said at a public hearing July 29. “The U.S. cannot go it alone and expect that our actions will have a meaningful climate impact in ...
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More Than 120 Groups Report Lobbying Congress on Existing Power Plant Regulations
At least 120 groups ranging from large publicly traded companies to environmental organizations continued strong lobbying efforts directed at Congress this quarter on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations to curb carbon pollution from power plants. Many of those groups focused their attention on legislation in the Senate (S. 1905) that would curtail the EPA's authority to ...
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Focus on Power Plant Rule`s Health Benefits Could Build Wider Support Among Public
The Obama administration's emphasis on the public health benefits of its first-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards for existing power plants may help make climate change resonate with more Americans—which could build support for the controversial rule. Communications research suggests that educating the public on the health impacts of climate change and the benefits of curbing ...
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