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Sequestration and fuel reserves
A technique for trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide deep underground could at the same be used to release the last fraction of natural gas liquids from ailing reservoirs, thus offsetting some of the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. So says a paper to be published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. While so-called “fracking” ...
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For all the Li in China
Coal from China could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. Lithium is an essential component of rechargeable batteries used almost ubiquitously in mobile gadgets such as phones, laptops, tablet computers and in many electric vehicles. Worldwide annual consumption ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Nuclear Power on Top of European Energy Agenda, despite Embargoes
The aftermath of Fukushima has raised two key questions in Europe. One: is nuclear power with its attendant waste and safety issues worth having? And, two: can Europe, in the absence of nuclear power generation, reduce its dependency on oil and gas imports and meet its climate targets? New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.energy.frost.com), European Nuclear Power Sector, finds that ...
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Dominion Energy Foresees Even Greater Growth of Renewable Energy
Dominion Energy Virginia's solar fleet could expand by at least 4,720 megawatts of capacity in the next 15 years, according to the company's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) filed on 5/1 with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). That's enough energy to power 1.18 million homes at peak sunlight and a nearly 50 percent increase over the forecast of 3,200 megawatts presented last year.The ...
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EPA Proposes Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution from new power plants in order to combat climate change and improve public health. In addition, EPA has initiated broad-based outreach and direct engagement with state, tribal, and local governments, industry and labor leaders, non-profits, and others to establish carbon pollution ...
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EPA Proposes Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution from new power plants in order to combat climate change and improve public health. In addition, EPA has initiated broad-based outreach and direct engagement with state, tribal, and local governments, industry and labor leaders, non-profits, and others to establish carbon pollution ...
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Emerging from the Corona crisis with renewables: Appeal to political decision makers
The capacity for rapid and comprehensive financial, economic and social measures, newly discovered in the Corona crisis, should not lead to a relaunch of the old polluting industries. Instead, it must be used to fight the escalating climate catastrophe. It is disproportionately more dangerous for our health and the economy, and has been raging for much longer. Now is the time to use the current ...
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Allete, Xcel Energy ink new 5-year contract for existing wind farms
Allete Clean Energy, a Minnesota-based independent power producer and supplier, has recently approved a new 5-year power sale agreement between its Viking wind farms in southern Minnesota and Xcel Energy, Inc., whose original 15-year PPAs will expire in December 2018. As per an official press release, Allan S. Rudeck Jr., President, Allete Clean Energy, said that the company is delighted to ...
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A New Phase in IEA Work with China and India
“As China and India become major players in global energy markets, it makes sense to share views with them on our common energy challenges”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Paris. “For the first time ever, the 27 member countries of the IEA have invited high-level Chinese and Indian delegations to participate in “Committee Week” – several ...
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Cogeneration and Waste Heat to Power in the `All-of-the-Above` Energy Market
At the National CHP2013 & WHP2013 conference and trade show held October 7-9at the Crowne Plaza in Houston, Texas keynote speaker Charles D. McConnell, Executive Director, Energy and Environment Initiative, E2I, Rice University and former Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will answer the question, "In the context of the U.S. Energy Policy, What is 'All-of-the-Above' ...
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GE to Supply Japan’s JFE Steel Co. with Multi-Fuel, On-Site Power Solution at Chiba Steel Mill
With the global steel industry working to reduce the environmental impact of its production activities, GE (NYSE: GE) is supplying Japan steel producer JFE Steel Co. Ltd. with a heavy duty Frame 9E gas turbine system for an innovative steel gas-to-energy recovery project at the company’s East Japan Iron Works in Chiba City, located in the Keiyo ...
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Software and Hardware Upgrades Could Cut Global CO2 Emissions from Coal and Gas Power Plants by One Billion Metric Tons
GE today released a new analysis of global power plants, which found that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the world's fleet of coal and gas plants can be reduced by 10 percent -- the equivalent of removing 95 percent of cars off U.S. roads -- when existing hardware and software solutions are fully applied. The analysis is the first to quantify the emission reductions of using existing ...
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ALLETE Clean Energy Plans Expansion of North Dakota Wind Farm
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE, Inc. (NYSE: ALE), today announced its plan to work with Montana-Dakota Utilities (MDU) to expand the Thunder Spirit wind farm in North Dakota, reaching the 150-megawatt permitted capacity of the facility ALLETE Clean Energy developed in 2014 and 2015. ALLETE Clean Energy secured a 25-year power purchase agreement with MDU to purchase ...
By Allete, Inc
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GE launches dedicated power generation products and services business unit in China
GE Seeks to Localize Business Capabilities in China New Business Unit Responsible for Heavy Duty Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine, Generator and Gasification Activities GE Veteran Yang Dan Chosen as General Manager of New Business Based in Beijing GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it has established a new, dedicated Power Generation Products and Services business unit in China to more effectively ...
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IEA review of Morocco’s energy policies highlights country’s progress towards energy transition
Morocco’s energy strategy is very much on target, with notable advances in wind and solar power and on fuel subsidy reform, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its in-depth review of Morocco's energy policies. The new report notes that while the country’s power sector restructuring is under way, there is scope for further progress in energy efficiency. “Under ...
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Volatile oil has experts wondering what`s next
A year ago, a barrel of oil cost about half of what it does today. The price of West Texas Intermediate surged from near US$50 a barrel in early 2007 to an all-time high of US$105 last week. So are oil prices heading towards $150-or downward toward $50? That's the key question at a forum this week on oil prices and how to cope with them. More than 140 policy-makers from central banks, energy ...
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