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Additional Risk Mitigation For Grainger Ash Ponds

Santee Cooper in South Carolina is using AquaDam to assist in protecting against the Waccamaw River that continues to rise near the dike around Pond 2 at the former Grainger Generating Station. ...

Sep. 20, 2018

By Aqua Dam, Inc.

EPA sets first national standard for coal waste

The Obama administration on Friday set the first national standards for waste generated from coal burned for electricity, treating it more like household garbage rather than a hazardous material. Environmentalists had pushed for the hazardous classification, citing the hundreds of cases nationwide in which coal ash waste had tainted waterways or underground aquifers, in many cases legally. A ...

Dec. 19, 2014

By Associated Press

More than 10,000 active environmental projects for the world’s 7,000 coal-fired power boilers

More Than 10,000 Active Environmental Projects for the World’s 7,000 Coal-fired Power Boilers The combination of a building boom for new coal-fired power plants in Asia plus environmental upgrades in Europe and the Americas has led to a record number of environmental projects in planning and construction. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Utility Environmental ...

Apr. 18, 2012

By The McIlvaine Company

Coal/Biomass combination with CO2 capture greener than renewables but not most eco-efficient

If a combination of coal and biomass provided the energy source for electricity and the CO2 from the combustion was captured, there would be more carbon extracted from the atmosphere than returned to it. The best global warming reducer would be a 100 percent biomass boiler with 90 percent CO2 capture, but there is not enough biomass to generate the electricity the world needs. However, a ...

Jan. 21, 2009

By The McIlvaine Company

Georgia Power to Own and Operate 80 MW of Battery Energy Storage

The State of Georgia is positioned to become a leader in battery energy storage in the Southeast with Georgia Power's planned investment to own and operate 80 megawatts (MW) of battery energy storage. The company's 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), unanimously approved today by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), includes energy storage, 72 percent more renewable generation by 2024, ...

Jul. 18, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Power Plant Plan Further Clouds Coal`s Future

President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from the nation's power plants gives many coal-dependent states more lenient restrictions and won't necessarily be the primary reason coal-fired power plants will be retired. If Kentucky, for example, meets the new limits that the Obama administration proposed Monday, it would be allowed to release more ...

Jun. 3, 2014

By Associated Press

U.S. Department of Energy Projects Win 32 R&D 100 Awards for 2016

November 7, 2016 -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) researchers have won 32 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine and received a special recognition award for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The R&D 100 Awards, sometimes called the "Oscars of Innovation," are given annually in recognition of exceptional new products or ...

Nov. 7, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

Help for Duke Energy

We are a waste to energy firm in Western North Carolina called RCBC Global Inc. As you know, the EPA has to make a ruling by next Friday about whether or not coal ash is classified as hazardous or non hazardous. Sunday Dec 7th 60 minutes aired Duke Power's CEO Lynne Good about why she has not cleaned up the coal ash spill into the Dan River. I will cut to the chase as to why I am contacting you. ...

Dec. 7, 2014

By RCBC Global Inc.

EPA expected to treat coal ash waste like garbage

Environmentalists and industry experts widely expect the first federal standards for the waste generated from coal burned for electricity to treat the ash like household garbage, rather than a hazardous material. The Obama administration is under court order to unveil the rule Friday, ending a six-year effort that began after a massive spill at a Tennessee power plant in 2008. Since then, the ...

Dec. 18, 2014

By Associated Press