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TXU to Cut Mercury at Coal, Nuclear Power Plants
DALLAS, Texas, August 6, 2007 (ENS) - TXU Power has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the amount of mercury at its Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, a two-unit nuclear power plant about 80 miles southwest of downtown Dallas, Texas, the company and the EPA announced Friday. The nuclear plant's managers have pledged to complete mercury reduction measures at the ...
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Coal-Water Fuel as an ecological alternative to Heating Oil
What is “coal-water fuel” and how it can helps? Coal-water fuel (CWSF or CWS or CWF) is a fuel which consists of fine dispersed coal particles, water and plasticizing agent. This type of fuel is widely used as an alternative to gas and black oil on different heat generating facilities. The operational economy is the main of advantages of the coal-water fuel. CW fuel has almost ...
By GlobeCore PC
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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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EPA Comfort Letter Provides Fuel Customers Added Assurance
An Environmental Protection Agency Comfort Letter recently issued regarding WastAway’s SE3™ fuel provides users solid assurances of regulatory compliance as a non-waste material, compatibility with fossil fuels, and significantly low levels of contamination. “This means the EPA concurs with our product’s capability to more cleanly utilize coal fuel resources,” said ...
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Colloidal Coal Water Fuel by Nanotechnology for power generation
Coal is still the dominant fuel used for power generation due to its low cost and abundant availability despite its emission problems and global warming issues. Companies around the world are trying to improve the efficiency of coal fired power plants and reduce emissions by various methods. The idea is to prepare an ultra clean coal with very low ash content in the form of coal-water slurry that ...
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IEA to launch Medium-Term Coal Market Report on 16 December
The international launch of Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2013 Press webinar on Monday 16 December 2013, 10:30 a.m. Paris time Maria van der Hoeven Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA) Keisuke Sadamori Director of Energy Markets and Security, IEA The Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2013 provides IEA forecasts on coal markets for the coming five years as well as an in-depth ...
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EPA Carbon Standards for Modified Plants Impose Double Regulation, Utilities Say
An Environmental Protection Agency proposed rule that would require modified and reconstructed power plants to meet two different carbon dioxide emissions standards under separate provisions of the Clean Air Act is illegal, states and industry groups said. “The EPA provides no discussion regarding how an affected [electricity generating unit] could meet two different standards, the basis ...
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I&M Offers New Option for Green Power
Indiana Michigan Power has launched a new way for Indiana customers to support renewable energy. IM Green offers customers the opportunity to attribute all or part of their energy use to renewable wind and solar energy generated in Indiana and Michigan for as little as $3.53 per month for a typical home. The optional payment goes directly to supporting renewable generation and IM Green costs. ...
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Feds Consider Microgrid in Upgrade of Washington, D.C. Energy Backbone
The U.S. government says it will consider installing a microgrid as part of a massive energy upgrade planned for a large block of buildings in Washington, D.C. The General Services Administration issued a request for information (RFI) Friday in the first step to upgrade the 81-year-old district energy network and younger combined heat and power (CHP) system. The RFI is precursor to an energy ...
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Batch Waste Tire to Oil Pyrolysis Process
Waste tire to oil process is a pyrolysis process, and the whole process needs high temperature.Here is the detailed introduction of DOING pyrolysis machine working process: 1. Put the waste tires into the reactor. 2. Heat the reactor by using fuel materials, such as coal, charcoal, fuel gas, wood etc. When the temperature reaches around 200°C-300°C, the oil gas will be produced. 3. Then ...
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Progress Energy Carolinas to retire two coal-fired power plants Oct. 1
As announced in July, Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), on Oct. 1 will officially retire two coal-fired power plants, including the utility's first coal-fueled facility built in 1923. The utility will close the Cape Fear power plant, near Moncure, N.C., and the H.B. Robinson Unit 1 power plant, near Hartsville, S.C., as part of its ongoing fleet-modernization ...
By Duke Energy
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Minnesota Becomes the Latest State to Adopt Carbon-Free Electricity
With the signature this week (Feb 7) of Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota becomes the latest state to move towards a carbon-free electricity system. The state joins 21 other states where laws, executive orders, or board decisions set goals of 100% clean power no later than 2050. The District of Columbia and Puerto Rico also have such goals. The Minnesota law requires electric utilities to get 100% of ...
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ADA-ES to Present at the Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference and the Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor Summit
ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADES) today announced that Michael D. Durham, President and CEO and Mark McKinnies, Senior Vice President and CFO will address institutional investors at two investment conferences scheduled as follows: Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM ET at The Omni Berkshire Place in New York. Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor ...
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Coal-fired Power and Ethanol Replace Oil and Gas as the Big Process Equipment Markets
This new century arrived along with a huge market for gas turbine systems and all the components as Europe and the U.S. chose this route to solve their energy problems. At the same time the future for refining and oil and gas exploration looked bright for at least the next several decades. Just six years later, the picture has dramatically changed. In fact suppliers of pumps, valves, ...
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Indiana Michigan Power Enters Rate Settlement Agreement that Provides Significant Customer Benefits
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M), an American Electric Power company, has filed with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) a rate settlement agreement that will reduce base rates for Hoosier residential customers while enhancing reliability. Under the settlement, I&M will reduce its base rates for Indiana residential customers by about 5% over two phases, with a slight decrease of ...
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China and Europe join forces on `clean coal`
A joint initiative between China and Europe has paved the way for the development of efficient and low-carbon energy systems using coal. The researchers believe that international collaboration - and in particular an initiative called cooperation action with China (under the COACH project) - will speed up the development of polygeneration plants. These plants produce other coal-based fuels at ...
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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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Xcel Energy Proposes to Exit Coal by 2030
Xcel Energy this week (Oct 31) announced a proposal to advance the retirement of coal operations at Tolk Generating Station in Texas to 2028, more than four years earlier than planned. With this earlier retirement, along with accelerated coal plant retirements in other states, the company will exit the use of coal by the end of 2030 when the Comanche 3 coal unit in Colorado retires. The company ...
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AEP Releases Climate Scenario Analysis
American Electric Power has released its Climate Scenario Analysis, a report that examines the impacts of climate change on the company's operations, as well as the potential implications of the transition to a clean energy economy. In February, AEP announced a new goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with an interim target to cut emissions 80% from 2000 levels by 2030. AEP plans ...
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Metso to deliver green energy technology for Elektrocieplownia Bialystok S.A`s biomass boiler conversion project in Poland
Metso Corporation's press release on August 30, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. local time The investment will significantly increase the share of renewable energy production for EC Bialystok. Metso will convert a coal fired boiler to biomass fired Bubbling Fluidized Bed (BFB) boiler to Elektrocieplownia Bialystok S.A's combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Bialystok, Poland. The total value of the ...
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