coal fired plant News
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New coal plants with 15 year life are economically and environmentally attractive
Recent reports to the contrary, new coal-fired plants are both economically and environmentally attractive compared to operating existing coal-fired plants or replacing them with alternative energy generation. This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine Company in its new 'CO2 Decisions' which is one of the Decision Trees in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions. Existing coal-fired plants are ...
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Eight Indian based Companies will Spend more than $1 billion for Valves in 2019
The market for valves in India is increasing at a greater rate than elsewhere. Purchases in 2019 will exceed $3 billion. This represents valves, parts, and service which will be utilized in India. Eight large valve purchasers based in India will spend more than $1 billion for valves. However some of those valves may be installed in other countries. The end use forecast is crucial to stocking of ...
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World coal-fired capacity to increase by 60%
World coal capacity is expected to reach approximately 2,500 GW by the end of 2020, an increase of nearly 60 percent from 2008. East Asia will lead the way with the biggest total gain in capacity, while West Asia will enjoy the largest percentage growth, approximately 300 percent. These are the latest forecasts in Coal-Fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast published by the McIlvaine ...
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AEP to refocus investments on regulated operations, renewables
After taking a $2.3 billion charge to reflect declining values of its coal-fired power plants, American Electric Power (AEP) has announced it will be focusing investments on regulated operations and renewable energy. AEP says it will invest approximately $17.3 billion over the period 2017 to 2019 in its core regulated operations and contracted renewables. Most of the new spending will be in ...
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Will biomass be the saviour of coal?
Use of biomas at coal-fired energy plants would enhance existing generation assets and balance carbon reduction objectives with energy demand and energy ...
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Coalition against coal fires up in Greece
Greece and seven municipalities are joining forces to oppose several coal-fired power plant projects, on the grounds they will cause large increases of greenhouse gas emissions and cause local pollution problems. “This coalition against coal aims to promote the principles of sustainable energy”, said Achilleas Plitharas, WWF-Geece’s Environmental Policy Campaigner. “A coal-fired plant will ...
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Ex-Im Bank rejects coal-fired plant in Vietnam
The Export-Import Bank of the United States has rejected a proposal to provide financing for a new coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. The bank's board of directors cites the project's likely effect on global warming in its vote on Thursday. President Barack Obama said last month that the U.S. will no longer support building coal-fired power plants abroad as part of an effort to curtail global ...
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124 coal and gas-fired power plants slated for startup in 2006
Untitled Document There are 124 coal and gas-fired power generation projects, 25 MW or larger, scheduled for 2006 startup in the McIlvaine Company database, World Power Generation Projects. Gas-fired projects outnumber coal-fired projects. 2006 Plant Startups (number of generator units) Region Fuel Coal Gas LNG Total ...
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China would use coal plant to power Jamaica port
A Chinese company wants to build its own coal-fired plant in southern Jamaica to generate the power needed for a hoped-for $1.5 billion port that the Caribbean island envisions as helping transform its chronically sluggish economy. During an update to Parliament, Transport and Works Minister Omar Davies said China Harbour Engineering Co. aims to power the transshipment port with coal "to provide ...
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Obama nominates Colo. energy regulator to FERC
President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated the former head of Colorado's Public Utilities Commission to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Ronald Binz sat on Colorado's utilities commission from 2007 to 2011 and helped oversee efforts to reduce Colorado's reliance on coal-fired utility plants and increase the state's use of renewable energy. He previously served as the state's ...
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Thailand’s Energy Ministry vows for green power technology
Green technology is important to the success in dealing with challenges faced by Thailand and other ASEAN countries in securing energy security and sustainability and that the event like SETA 2016 will help these countries access to the required technology, Dr Areepong Bhoocha-oom, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy of Thailand, told the audience of the keynote session at SETA 2016. ...
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Clean Coal Is Available Now
Balancing energy costs with environmental goals is becoming increasingly difficult, but there are a number of promising opportunities which will make the achievement of this balance possible. These opportunities are analyzed by the McIlvaine Company in its Power Plant Air Quality Decisions service. The reality is that 50 percent of U.S. power is being produced in coal-fired plants. ...
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Coal-fired power plants: EU endorses new OECD rules on export credits
New rules on export credits to coal-fired power plants, developed within an OECD framework, have been endorsed by the EU. This is an important EU contribution for the COP21 negotiations on climate change, which start in Paris on 30 November 2015. It marks a further step in work ongoing since 2012 in aligning export credit policies with climate change objectives. The participants to an ...
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15 Coal-fired Plant Operators Will Purchase 50 Percent of the Pumps
Coal-fired plant operators will spend $1.5 billion for pumps each year for the next five years. The top five operators will purchase over 36 percent of the total. The top 15 companies will spend $825 million/yr. This is the latest analysis from the McIlvaine Company in Pumps World Market. The No. 4 purchaser NTPC and the No. 8 purchaser Vietnam Power will be purchasing mostly for new facilities. ...
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Big Shift In Process Equipment Markets In The U.S.
The market for process equipment, instrumentation, and services will slow in the traditionally strong regions of the South East, South Central and Pacific Regions. Instead, the growth will be in the Midwest, North Central and Western regions. This is the prediction resulting from findings in four McIlvaine publications including, World Market for Your Products, North American Analysis and ...
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Benefit of emission reduction in coal-fired power plants demonstrated with environmental burden index
Coal-fired power plant operators can make substantial reductions in actual greenhouse gases and huge reductions in other emissions. Operating costs would be reduced while the cost of electricity and life cycle costs would not increase. The large investment to accomplish this would greatly boost the U.S. economy. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in its just completed analysis: ...
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$2.5 Trillion Investment In New Coal-fired Plants In The Next 25 Years
World coal-fired power generation capacity will rise from 1.3 million MW in 2006, to 1.7 million MW in 2011, and to 2.7 million MW in 2030. This will require more than 1.7 million MW of new coal-fired construction to account for retirements as well as growth. The investment in these new plants will exceed $2.5 trillion. This is the prediction in the new McIlvaine online continuously updated, ...
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New interactive tools show continuing SO2 reductions at coal-fired power plants
New interactive tracking tools are now available on EPA’s Web site to help the public follow nation-wide changes in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants. Using interactive charts and Google Earth satellite maps, the public can now observe recent changes in SO2 emissions and other indicators at individual coal-fired power plants in the Acid Rain Program. The Acid Rain ...
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Fly ash
With international procurement channels, know-how in processing and individual logistics concepts, we are a reliable partner of the cement and concrete industry for fly ash. The energy turnaround means that fly ash from German hard coal-fired power plants is in short supply. Therefore, international recycling, new supply concepts and individual solutions for the European markets are ...
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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 ...
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