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$1.4bn clean coal power plant to be built in Illinois
A consortium of some of the world's largest coal companies and electric utilities has selected the small east-central Illinois town of Mattoon for FutureGen, a $1.4 billion coal-fueled power plant that is planned as the cleanest in the world. The FutureGen Alliance today announced that Mattoon was chosen over three other sites in Tuscola, Illinois; Jewett, Texas; and Odessa, Texas. 'The ...
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Mountain hollows could be used to generate energy
Chinese researchers have developed a novel approach to generating renewable energy that uses undeveloped mountains as 'solar chimneys' to convert sunlight into electricity. Although untested, such technology could potentially compete with clean coal power plants in terms of cost and make significant contributions to energy supplies in mountainous countries. Design of a standard solar chimney is ...
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Lighting a Fire in Indian Clean Coal Industry: The 2nd Annual World Clean Coal Week India Focus 2013
Coal, the world's most abundant fossil fuel, plays a vital role in the world energy mix. It supplies 24 percent of the total global energy and 40 percent of global electricity. In Asia, coal accounts for almost 75 percent of electricity generation nationally, and is most likely to remain the principal fuel source in the future. As a prospering country with world’s 5th largest coal reserve, ...
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$80 Billion market to upgrade old U.S Coal-fired Power Plants
Over the next ten years operators of coal-fired power plants will spend $80 billion to upgrade their existing power plants. This is the prediction in the McIlvaine report, Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The U.S. upgrade market will be driven by the following factors: Coal will again become the low cost power option Building new ...
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ADB to promote clean energy with US$100m investment
Using up to $100 million in seed capital, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping establish five private sector funds with a total target investment of up to $1.2 billion in clean energy projects in Asia. “ADB believes the success of these funds will help demonstrate the credibility of private equity in the emerging clean energy sector in developing Asia, and mobilize capital to support other ...
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Advanced research projects selected to support development of next-generation power plants
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four new research projects aimed at improving the efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance of power-generation systems that use coal, our Nation’s most abundant energy resource. The selected projects will address the central challenge of advanced near-zero emission energy systems: producing power in an efficient and environmentally ...
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Reaction Design Wins the SAE International Arch T. Colwell Merit Award
Scientists and engineers atReaction Design®, a leading developer of combustion simulation software, have been selected to receive the prestigious Arch T. Colwell Merit Award. The annual award program recognizes authors of outstanding papers presented at SAE meetings. “We are proud of the members of our team who were selected to win this award amongst ...
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