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GE-Led Carbon Capture Technology Project Aims to Achieve 95% Reduction of Carbon Emissions
GE Gas Power announced this week that the company's front-end engineering design (FEED) study "Retrofittable Advanced Combined Cycle Integration for Flexible Decarbonized Generation" will receive $5,771,670 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management following successful completion of the award negotiation phase. This funding is focused on ...
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FuelCell Energy Announces New Carbon Capture Project with Drax Power Station
FuelCell Energy, a leader in delivering clean, innovative and affordable fuel cell solutions for the supply, recovery and storage of energy, today (6/27) announced that it has entered into a contract with Drax Power Station in the United Kingdom for an application of the Company's carbon capture solution. FuelCell Energy will be supporting Drax with a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study ...
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Carbon Sink: The Solution to Carbon Capture May Be Hiding in Your Bathroom
First the good news. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal have been falling over the last five years in the U.S., hitting the lowest point for any quarter since 1986 in March 2012. Cheap natural gas allowed utilities to cut back on coal, the most “carbon-intense” fossil fuel used for power generation. But coal-fired power plants are not going away anytime soon in the U.S., and countries ...
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DNV GL Approves Carbon Capture Technology
DNV GL has approved as qualified, technology for a full-scale demonstration project in Norway to remove carbon emissions at a cement plant. Gassnova, the Norwegian state's agency for implementation of carbon capture and storage projects, initiated the project which will apply carbon capture technology developed by Aker Solutions at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway. Globally, the cement ...
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Aker Solutions Starts Pioneering CO2-Capture Project in Norway
The project is the first of its kind globally for a waste-to-energy plant and comes after Aker Solutions in December signed a contract with the city government. The project is funded by Gassnova, the state enterprise that supports the development and demonstration of technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). "This is pioneering work with significant potential as the world focuses on finding ...
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Fueling Trucks with Biogas from Food Waste
Pentair (NYSE: PNR), a leading provider of water treatment and sustainable solutions, has been selected to deliver biogas upgrading and compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment to help fuel up to 40 CNG trucks for McCulla, a prominent refrigerated transport company in Northern Ireland. Renewable gas to transport is gaining traction as a fast and cost effective way to decarbonize heavy goods ...
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ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat to Advance Breakthrough Atmospheric Carbon Capture Technology
ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat said recently (6/27) that they have signed a joint development agreement to advance breakthrough technology that can capture and concentrate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources, including power plants, and the atmosphere. The companies will evaluate the potential scalability of Global Thermostat’s carbon capture technology for large industrial use. If ...
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Ensuring safe carbon capture and storage in China
Tsinghua University is partnering with WRI to develop guidelines for China’s deployment of CCS technology. Many have said that we can’t solve the climate change challenge without a solution for coal. Nowhere is this truer than in China, which already uses more coal than the U.S, the European Union and Japan combined. Many experts are now looking at carbon capture and storage—known as CCS—as the ...
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Algae.Tec Announces Commencement of Australian Advanced Biofuels Facility Commissioning
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX:ALGXY), an advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield enclosed algae growth and harvesting system today announced commissioning for its showcase biofuels facility Shoalhaven One in Nowra Australia started this week. Algae.Tec Executive Chairman Roger Stroud said the commissioning process was on track for production of algae biomass in early ...
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Capital Power Advances Carbon Capture Project at Genesee
Capital Power Corporation has partnered with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group and Kiewit Energy Group on a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the Genesee CCS Project, advancing the commercial application of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology at its Genesee Generating Station in Alberta. "We're excited to collaborate with MHI Group and Kiewit to advance our Genesee ...
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NSW Minister for Resources and Energy to Open Algae.Tec Algae to Biofuels Global Showcase Facility in Australia
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX :ALGXY) the advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield, enclosed and scalable algae growth and harvesting system today announced the algae to biofuels showcase facility Shoalhaven One will be officially opened on 2 August 2012. Algae.Tec is pleased to announce the New South Wales Minister for Resources and Energy the Honourable Chris Hartcher, MP ...
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Algae.Tec Appoints Veteran Aviation Project Engineer for Global Biofuels Commercialisation Program
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX :ALGXY) the advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield, enclosed and scaleable algae growth and harvesting system today announced the appointment of Colin McGregor as General Manager Project Operations. McGregor, an award winning project manager and manufacturing engineer, with over 20 years aviation experience in both the defense and commercial ...
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Carbon Engineering chosen as sustainability partner for Virgin’s new rewards club, Virgin Red
Today, the Virgin Group launched its new rewards club, Virgin Red, on an exclusive, invitation-only basis. In a world-first for a loyalty programme, Virgin Red has included an option for members to directly support the development of an emerging climate change solution – Direct Air Capture (DAC). Carbon Engineering’s (CE) DAC technology is a key solution that can remove carbon dioxide ...
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Energy-intensive industries vow to support Europe’s green transition
Campaigners welcome a commitment to carbon neutrality by heavy industries but warn that the current plan lacks concrete policy proposals. Europe’s most energy-intensive industries (EIIs) have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, outlining their masterplan to overcome challenges and exploit opportunities. The document was published as the European Parliament declared a climate ...
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Masdar joins the global carbon capture and storage institute as founding member
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted future energy initiative, today signed an agreement at the World Future Energy Summit in the presence of Her Excellency, Quentin Bryce, Governor General of Australia, to become a founding member of the Australian Government’s flagship Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI). The Institute will be administered and funded by the Australian Government ...
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Australian Judge Blocks Coal Mine on Climate Grounds
SYDNEY, Australia, (ENS) - A New South Wales court ruling that a coal producer must include climate impacts of a proposed mine in its environmental assessment could impact a wide range of Australia's mining, energy and manufacturing industries. The New South Wales Land and Environment Court decided Tuesday that Centennial Coal Company Ltd, developer of the Anvil Hill mine, failed to ...
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Eaton Contracted to Provide MGM Resorts with Power Management Solutions for the Largest Rooftop Solar Project in the World
Power management company Eaton today announced a contract to provide electrical distribution equipment for a 6.4-megawatt (MW) DC solar installation at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Convention Center in Las Vegas. The MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) project is the world’s largest rooftop solar array on a convention center, and is predicted to generate ...
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