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IEA to launch Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2014 on 15 December
The international launch of Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2014 Press webinar/teleconference On Monday, 15 December 2014, 3:00 p.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 2014 provides IEA forecasts on coal markets for the coming five years as well ...
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Progress Energy Carolinas announces accelerated coal plant closings
Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), will accelerate the retirement of one North Carolina coal-fired power plant previously slated for closing in 2013, and will retire the utility's only coal-fired unit in South Carolina. The company announced today that the 316-megawatt (MW) Cape Fear coal-fired plant, located near Moncure, N.C., and the 177-MW H.B. Robinson Unit ...
By Duke Energy
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EDF Reaches an Important Milestone in the Implementation of Ecocombust
After a meeting on 24 January, EDF and the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition validated a work program prior to a decision on the Ecocombust project. This work program is expected to qualify, by the fall of 2019, the technical tests, the environmental impact studies and the economic model of the project. At this date, subject to satisfactory technical, economic and environmental ...
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Salt as Energy Storage: Vattenfall Launches Pilot Project at Heat Plant in Berlin
Vattenfall, together with the Swedish company SaltX Technology, will test how renewable wind and solar power can be stored in salt. In experiments, SaltX's patented technology has proven to be able to store up to ten times more energy and for much longer periods than water. The technology will be tested for the first time on an industrial scale at a pilot plant in Vattenfall’s Reuter thermal ...
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RDF/SRF Shredder for Refuse Derived / Solid Recovered Alternative Fuels Prodution
RDF/SRF Shredder for Refuse Derived / Solid Recovered AF Alternative Fuels Prodution RDF has many facets, meaning it can be further specified into TDF (Tyre Derived Fuels), SRF (Solid Recovered Fuels) and AF (Alternative Fuels). RDF stands for Refuse Derived Fuel. This fuel is produced from combustible components that the industry calls Municipal Solid Waste-MSW for short. This waste, usually ...
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Enel: First hydrogen-fuelled power now on line in Venice
Two landmark events have been achieved at Enel’s hydrogen-fuelled power plant near Venice. Just a few days after the new hydrogen pipeline supplied by Polimeri Europa (ENI) went into service, the power plant has successfully begun generating power fuelled 100% by hydrogen. The people of Venice are the first in the world to benefit from power generated by the world’s largest industrial-sized ...
By Enel SpA
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New 4,000MW power plant to boost Indian electricity capacity
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has executed a loan agreement for a US$450 million loan to Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tata Power Company Limited which is the largest private power utility in India. CGPL will build, own and operate the 4,000-megawatt Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in the western state of Gujarat. This is expected to be the first in a ...
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AOC Supports Wind and Chemical Industry to Advance Wind Turbine Recycling
WindEurope, Cefic (the European Chemical Industry Council) and EuCIA (the European Composites Industry Association) have created a cross-sector platform to advance novel approaches to the recycling of wind turbine blades. As a member of CEFIC and sponsor of EuCIA, AOC is supporting the efforts of promoting cement co-processing as viable recycling route for composites, and of developing ...
By AOC, LLC
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What Is Biomass Pellet Fuel
Biomass pellet fuel is a heating fuel made from biomass compression. The common type is wood pellets. As a form of wood fuel, wood pellets are typically made from compacted sawdust or other waste produced from sawn wood and other wood products. Other woody biomass sources include palm kernel shells, coconut shells, and treetops and branches that are removed from the whole tree or left after ...
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Coal and its future are fueling conflicts around the globe
"Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Richard Martin Fierce conflicts over coal are taking place around the globe, but author Richard Martin says the decline and ultimate demise of the fuel that powered the Industrial Revolution is inevitable and cannot be reversed. What he cannot predict, he says, is whether the transition to energy sources that ...
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China’s investment in renewables soars
China invested more than US$89 billion in renewable energy projects in the country in 2014 – a growth of 31% on the previous year, according to a detailed report on the country’s energy sector. The soaring increase is revealed in a report by the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). But it adds that fossil fuels − particularly coal − still look ...
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Beijing Enlists U.S. Help to Green the 2008 Olympic Games
WASHINGTON, DC , April 18, 2005 (ENS) - Beijing has pledged to the International Olympic Committee to achieve World Health Organization standards for urban air quality in time for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with the Chinese government to ensure that goal is achieved. The city's strategy for cleaning the air depends on reductions in ...
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Consumers Energy Achieves Broad Support for Breakthrough Clean Energy Plan, Files Settlement
Consumers Energy and other stakeholders have filed a settlement with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) on the company's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) outlining a breakthrough Clean Energy Plan for Michigan. The plan positions Consumers Energy as a national clean energy leader and demonstrates its commitment to people, the planet and Michigan's prosperity. Today's settlement ...
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Boeing 737 factory to move to clean energy
Boeing said Tuesday it plans to buy renewable energy credits to replace fossil-fuel power at the factory in Washington state where it assembles its 737 commercial airplanes. The aerospace company and the utility, Puget Sound Energy, said the plan will move the Renton factory near Seattle toward an all-renewable energy mix. Boeing Co. says it will offset electricity from coal and other fuels by ...
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E.ON gas storage examining CO2 storage options
E.ON Gas Storage GmbH (EGS) has filed an application with the Lower Saxony mining, energy and geology office (LBEG) for permission to carry out geological investigations in the Weser area. Over the next five years it is to be examined whether geological conditions in that area are suitable for building an underground CO2 storage facility. This study is part of an E.ON programme for carbon capture ...
By E.ON AG
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Tanzania Indaba 2013 - Mining & Energy
The Tanzania Indaba 2013 will focus on Mining, Energy / Power & Infrastructure. The main event in the Tanzanian power calendar will take place between the 2-4th October at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC) in Dar-es-Salaam. Clarke Energy is a specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of gas-fueled power plants. The company is also the distributor ...
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Renewables successfully driving down carbon emissions in Europe
Without the deployment of renewable energy since 2005, greenhouse gas emissions in 2012 could have been 7% higher than actual emissions, according to the EEA report 'Renewable energy in Europe – approximated recent growth and knock-on effects'. Renewable technologies also increase energy security, the report found. Without the additional use of renewable energy since 2005, the EU's ...
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New equipment for processing of carbon-containing feedstock.
The Technokomplex company announces of beginning offering for sale two new types of the equipment - KVARK-500 Drum Furnace for Gas-vapour Activation of Carbon-Containing Feedstock and UGLAS-800 Gas Generator. The furnace allows activationof pyrolysis product (carbon-containing residue) and carbonize products like brown coal, bituminous coal, anthracite, peat, wood, vegetation wastes (walnut, ...
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Hybrid system could cut coal-plant emissions in half
Original story at MIT News Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving these goals is still a considerable technological, economic, and political challenge. The International Energy Agency has projected that, even with the new agreements in place, global coal-fired power generation will increase over the next few ...
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9th International Conference on High Temperature Filtration – A great success!
Organized by Evonik Fibres, the 9th International Conference on High Temperature Filtration, again turned out to be the top event for participants from around the globe. From September 24th to 26th 2008, a total of 86 experts from 5 continents, representing 18 nationalities, met to collect information around the main topic: “Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels”. (photo 1) Plant manufacturers, end ...
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