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Chris Huhne letter to the guardian on an emissions performance standard

The idea that we are “watering down” our commitment is simply incorrect ('Dirtiest coal power plants win reprieve, 16 August'): this Government has committed to introducing an Emissions Performance Standard. We are moving as quickly as possible and our consultation on a radical reform of the electricity market to deliver secure, affordable and low carbon energy, will be out within 6 ...

Aug. 17, 2010

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation - Carbon Trust response

Carbon Trust response to the Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation, which sets out support levels for renewable electricity technologies for the period 2013 to 2017 James Wilde, Director of Innovation and Policy at the Carbon Trust said: "The Government's decision to reduce the support provided to onshore wind by 10% is sensible as it is based upon evidence of costs falling. Given the ...

Jul. 25, 2012

By Carbon Trust

Can Germany Really Turn Its Back on Nuclear?

Earlier this month, the German conservative government has announced a complete dismantling of nuclear power plants by 2022. Challenged the view of many experts, and brokers of energy in Germany and throughout Europe, the German government published a controversial report proposed a possible plan to close all nuclear reactors by 2017. Can Germany really has nuclear independence by the end of ...

Jun. 24, 2011

By Catalyst Commercial

To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production

America's newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground. Some environmentalists complain that it ends up releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is stored underground as waste. It's another example of the Obama administration promoting new, cleaner ...

Dec. 23, 2013

By Associated Press

IEA hails historic launch of carbon capture and storage project

The International Energy Agency (IEA) today welcomed the launch of the world’s first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, calling it a historic milestone along the road to a low-carbon energy future. The 110MW retrofit of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada will trap around 1 million tonnes of carbon ...

Oct. 1, 2014

By International Energy Agency

Environmental Concerns Compel Use of Gas Turbines for Power Generation in Asia-Pacific, Finds Frost & Sullivan

The Asia-Pacific gas turbine market will sustain its growth momentum as concerns on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions force utilities and independent power producers to opt for environmentally friendly power generation technologies. The availability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied through both pipelines and shipment will increase gas turbine demand in the long term, although ...

Feb. 28, 2013

By Frost & Sullivan

MEPs vote to equip power plants to store CO2 underground

The European Parliament's Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), which stores CO2 emissions permanently underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it said in a co-decision vote on Tuesday. MEPs had already proposed financing demonstration projects through the revised ...

Oct. 8, 2008

By European Parliament

How to design a clean energy standard

WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States. In response to President Obama’s goal of generating 80 percent of the U.S. electricity from clean energy sources by 2035, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski issued a white paper posing six basic questions and ...

Apr. 19, 2011

By World Resources Institute WRI

CERC takes part in Carbon Capture and Storage modelling

CERC’s contribution to the ‘CO2 capture Mongstad’ project, a major venture overseen by Statoil Petroleum AS and Gassnova SF (the Norwegian State enterprise for carbon capture and storage), is ongoing. Statoil and Gassnova are planning to equip the combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Mongstad refinery with post-combustion carbon capture, potentially using amine technology. ...

Jun. 25, 2013

By Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC)

New CO2CRC carbon capture project commissioned

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research has taken a major step forward with the commissioning of Australia’s most comprehensive post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture research facility, the CO2CRC H3 Capture Project, at International Power’s Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The project was launched by Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor ...

Jul. 9, 2009

By Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)

Charles Hendry`s speech at the Oslo Energy Forum

Good morning. I am honoured to have the chance to speak to such an influential audience. And I am delighted to be back in Norway. Our countries share a tremendous amount of history. Every year, Oslo sends a Christmas tree to London; it stands just a short walk from my office, an annual reminder of joint endeavours in our past. We even shared part of our United Kingdom, the Shetland islands. ...

Feb. 10, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Clean Coal Technologies Comments on the Environmental Protection Agency`s Proposed New Regulations of the Coal Industry

Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. (CCTC) ("the Company"), an emerging clean energy company utilizing patented technology to convert raw coal into a cleaner burning and more efficient fuel, comments on recent Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposals which would impose new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from newly constructed power plants. The Administration is considering the ...

Oct. 3, 2013

By Clean Coal Technologiesinc, Inc.

Accounting for Carbon Capture and Storage

A new report recently released by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) provides the first-ever comprehensive framework for calculating carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions from carbon capture and storage (CCS). The framework equips policymakers and project developers with common methodologies for quantifying the emission impacts of CCS projects. CCS involves a suite of ...

Feb. 24, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

C2ES Report Offers Comprehensive Approach to Measure CO2 Reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage

A new report released today by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) provides the first-ever comprehensive framework for calculating carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions from carbon capture and storage (CCS). The framework equips policymakers and project developers with common methodologies for quantifying the emission impacts of CCS projects. CCS involves a suite of ...

Apr. 5, 2012

By Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Obama`s climate plan takes aim at coal plants

America is slowly moving toward cleaner sources of energy and using less of it overall. President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change will accelerate those trends. The plan aims to reduce power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide, increase America's reliance on natural gas and renewables and make trucks, homes and businesses more efficient. Some parts of the plan will take months to work ...

Jun. 26, 2013

By Associated Press

IEA warns of `oil crunch` by 2030

“We cannot let the financial and economic crisis delay the policy action that is urgently needed to ensure secure energy supplies and to curtail rising emissions of greenhouse gases. We must usher in a global energy revolution by improving energy efficiency and increasing the deployment of low-carbon energy,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in ...

Nov. 12, 2008

By International Energy Agency

Michael Fallon speech to the Npower business customer conference

Introduction Innovation has always been the key to successful energy policy. It has never been as simple as rolling out one proven means of power-generation. On the contrary, we have always endeavoured to find new sources in new places, whether we look at the first generation of nuclear power stations in the 50s, or the opening up of the North Sea in the 60s. In the past, innovation has given ...

Jun. 7, 2013

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

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