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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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Coal-Fired Power Plant Blocked in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa, October 15, 2007 (ENS) - Opponents of a new coal-fired power plant proposed in Waterloo, including the Sierra Club and the Iowa Farmers Union, celebrated a victory Thursday when a state panel rejected the City of Waterloo's request to annex land for the plant. The City Development Board decided that the annexation of land owned by residents who oppose the annexation did not ...
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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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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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What Actually Is Fly Ash?
Worldwide, fly ash is produced in hard coal-fired power plants during the generation of electricity by burning hard coal. Dry fly ash is a cementitious material and is often used as a binder in the concrete industry. In the production of concrete and cement, fly ash offers material advantages as well as a reduction in the amount of CO2. ...
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Successful study in the UK
ECOMB performed a feasibility study at large coal-fired power plant located in the UK, in March 2016. This was done together with our new partner for the UK market, BioC Ltd. Conclusions and results from this study were presented to the company’s management team in June. The conclusion was that an installation of an Ecotube-System would have a very positive effect on their boiler units to ...
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Nuclear disaster will shift $200 billion investment to fossil and renewables
In the next five years over $3 trillion will be invested in dynamic segments of the power, energy and water industries. However, forecasts regarding the division of this investment made just months ago are now revised to reflect lower investment in new nuclear power plants and higher investment in alternatives. This is the new conclusion in the McIlvaine continually updated online World Market ...
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US moves toward ban on coal-fired power plants to focus on renewables
In a report compiled in early 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages and talked about a resurgence in coal-fired electricity. But during 2007, 59 proposed U.S. coal-fired power plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition to the 59 plants that were dropped, close to 50 more coal plants are being ...
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World coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35% in next 10 years
World coal-fired power plant capacity will grow from 1,759,000 MW in 2010 to 2,384,000 MW in 2020. Some 80,000 MW will be replaced. So there will be 705,000 MW of new coal-fired boilers built. The annual new boiler sales will average 70,000 MW. The annual investment will be $140 billion. These are the most recent forecasts in Coal-fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast published by the ...
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Coal-fired Power Plant SCR Use to Double between 2012 and 2017
The coal-fired capacity utilizing SCR for NOx control will nearly double in the period 2012 to 2017. This is the prediction of the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated, NOx Control World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Total capacity will grow by almost 385,000 MW during the five-year period. East Asia will account for 78 percent of the growth. Growth in coal-fired SCR will be modest ...
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Poisoning the Great Lakes: 25 Coal-fired Power Plants Responsible For Half the Region`s Mercury Pollution
Just ahead of a major U.S. Senate vote on the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to clean up mercury and other toxic air pollutants, a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report shows that the 25 worst coal-fired power plants account for more than half of the dangerous mercury pollution emitted by the total of 144 electricity generation facilities in the Great Lakes region. The ...
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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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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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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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Coal-Fired Generators Can Be Green
Untitled Document Emissions from coal-fired power plants can be as low as desired. It is just a function of cost. In fact, coal plants can be net reducers of particulate matter and can actually generate water rather than consume it. Data supporting these claims is included in “Power Plant Knowledge System” supplied by the McIlvaine Company. Unpaved roads are the source ...
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Iowans Want Energy Conservation Before New Coal Plants
DES MOINES, Iowa, December 21, 2007 (ENS) - Four out of five Iowans believe energy conservation and fuel efficiency should be the focus of state efforts to meet electricity demand before new coal-burning power plants are built, according to a new public opinion poll. Iowa officials are contemplating two coal-fired facilities proposed for construction near Waterloo and Marshalltown. ...
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Power Industry to Spend $4.8 Billion for Treatment Chemicals in 2013
Electric utility power generators will spend more than $4.8 billion for water and wastewater treatment chemicals in 2013. This is the latest forecast in Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The largest expenditures will be for corrosion and scale inhibitors used in the boiler feedwater circuit. Flocculants are used ...
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Total FGD Market Much Bigger than $3.4 Billion Forecast
Next year coal-fired power plants will spend $3.4 billion for traditional scrubbing systems to remove SO2. This is a big decrease from the 2010 - 2011 peak concludes the McIlvaine Company in FGD Market and Strategies. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The traditional market involves using limestone as a reagent in wet scrubbers. Europe and the U.S. will be spending very little in this category because ...
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