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Montana Governor Signs Clean Energy Bills
HELENA, Montana (ENS) – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Tuesday signed into law two bills that provide tax incentives for future development and transmission of clean and renewable energy. The incentives support the development of new transmission lines, carbon dioxide sequestration pipelines to prevent emission of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, liquid fuel pipelines, power plants, ...
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China leading global efforts on clean coal
China is come a step closer to capturing and storing its carbon emissions with the launch of the GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin, according to a report in Nature. Carbon capture and storage was highlighted by the leaders of the G8 group of nations in 2008, when they called for the development of 20 large-scale projects demonstrating carbon capture technologies by 2010. But with the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Washington State Rejects Coal Gasification Power Plant
Environmental groups are applauding Tuesday's decision by Washington state siting officials to halt consideration of a proposed coal gasification power plant at the Port of Kalama in southwest Washington state near the Oregon border. Members of the state's Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, EFSEC, unanimously rejected the plan by public power agency Energy Northwest for permanently ...
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Farley unit 1 returns to service following automatic shutdown
Plant Farley's unit 1 resumed electricity production on Friday, June 14 at 2:47 a.m. CT following an automatic shutdown. On June 11 at 9:05 p.m. CT, Plant Farley's unit 1 reactor automatically shut down when a lightning arrestor failed on a transformer. All Plant Farley safety systems operated as designed and expected. All three of the transformers' lightning arrestors were replaced, and ...
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Enviros Challenge Proposed Coal Gasification Power Plant
SEATTLE, Washington, September 20, 2007 (ENS) - Public power agency Energy Northwest is moving forward with plans to construct a 680-megawatt coal gasification power plant at the Port of Kalama in southwestern Washington state. The consortium of publicly owned utilities has asked the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to hold adjudicatory hearings in late October, followed by a ...
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Carbon management for power plants 2011
As uncertainty grows around EPA and state-level regulation surrounding carbon emissions from power plants, finding strategies and technologies for complying with these regulations is becoming a top priority for power plant operators. Because of this, the Chief Environmental Officers from America's largest power generation companies including Southern Company, Dominion Resources and Constellation ...
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Southern Company, KBR to help drive global adoption of 21st century coal gasification technology
Southern Company – through subsidiary Southern Generation Technologies, LLC – and KBR, LLC, of Houston, Texas, have formed an alliance to market 21st century coal technology, Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIG™), to power companies worldwide. This innovative coal gasification process can provide power companies an efficient means to generate electricity using an ...
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Duke Energy´s Edwardsport power plant begins commercial operation
Duke Energy's Edwardsport Generating Station has begun commercial operation. Located in Knox County, Ind., near Vincennes, the 618-megawatt advanced technology coal gasification plant is one of the world's cleanest coal-fired power generating facilities. The plant uses advanced technology to gasify coal, strip out pollutants, and then burn that cleaner gas to produce electricity. The ...
By Duke Energy
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Southern Company subsidiary acquires 139-megawatt solar plant and more than doubles solar generating capacity
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) today announced the acquisition of the company's largest solar installation – the 139-megawatt (MW) Campo Verde Solar Project – by subsidiary Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy from First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR). The Southern Power-Turner Renewable Energy partnership's fifth solar acquisition and its first solar project in California, the ...
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Ammonia Tank - Dakota Gasification
Thermacon has designed, engineered, manufactured and installed storage tank insulation products throughout the world for over forty years. They have designed innovative products that have exceeded the needs and satisfied very specific and vigorous industry standards for various clients in multiple industries. We are very proud of the work that we do at Thermacon so in this blog and some of our ...
By Thermacon
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Sinopec Qilu Plant in China sets world record using GE Gasification Technology
GE Licensed Coal-Fed Gasification Facility Achieves Record for World’s Longest Continuous Operation Cycle of its Kind at 481 Days GE’s Gasification Technology Demonstrates Unsurpassed Reliability Technology that Helped Set Record Being Discussed at Gasification Technologies Conference in Colorado Springs The Sinopec Qilu No. 2 fertilizer plant in China has achieved the ...
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Coal & gas power plants - efficiency & cost
Which of today's fossil fuel-fired power plants have highest efficiencies and lowest emissions? And how much do they cost? These are some of the questions answered in IEA's recently released publication Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Generation - Case Studies of Recently Constructed Coal- and Gas-Fired Power Plants. But the authors' case studies covering nine selected facilities in Europe, Asia and ...
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