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China Energy Shortages Summer 2011
China’s Electricity Council said the country will likely face power shortages of 30 million kilowatts this summer so the government has moved quickly to put restrictions in place as the peak season approaches. Big industrial provinces such as Guangdong and Zhejiang are already scaling back power consumption. These reductions are likely to hinder aluminum, cement, zinc and steel output. ...
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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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OECD countries to limit overseas financing for coal plants
A compromise struck by the United States, Japan and other major nations will restrict export financing to build coal power plants overseas, but not eliminate it completely. The agreement reached earlier this week is an important step that sends a strong political message ahead of upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, an American official and environmentalists said. The Obama ...
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Beyond business as usual
Beyond Business as Usual: Investigating a Future without Coal and Nuclear Power in the ...
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Asia is set to support global coal demand for the next five years
Global coal demand is expected to decline in 2019 but remain broadly stable over the next five years, supported by robust growth in major Asian markets, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest market analysis and forecasts. The weakness in coal demand this year results mainly from coal-fired electricity generation, which is set to experience its largest ever ...
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New subsidy scheme for Turkish coal power plants
A new law has been published in Turkey promoting a subsidy scheme that could threaten health of its citizens and the energy future and environmental regulations of the country. Energy has a critical status in Turkey in the 2023 Vision and Development Plans. Since 2005, the country provides subsidies and grants exemptions to increase the share of coal, especially lignite as indigenous coal, in ...
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Environment: Commission refers Germany to Court over coal power plant in Moorburg
The European Commission is taking Germany to Court over its failure to apply the requirements of the Habitats Directive in relation to the authorisation of a coal power plant in Hamburg/Moorburg. The project in question risks having a negative impact on a number of protected fish species including salmon, European river lamprey and sea lamprey, which pass near the power plant when migrating from ...
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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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Carbon capture and storage needed for new coal-fired power stations
The Environment Agency has recommended that no new coal-fired power stations should be built unless they can capture and store carbon emissions. In its response to the Government’s consultation on carbon capture and storage, the Environment Agency called for faster progress on proving carbon capture and storage technology on a commercial scale. Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment ...
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Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/SBI-v775/Clean-Coal-Technologies-Trends-Worldwide-6447642/ Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and ...
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Step forward for health protection in Turkey: Proposal to extend the pollution exemptions given to privatised coal power plants withdrawn
Last night, 14 February, all political parties in the Turkish Parliament agreed to withdraw a proposal on granting exemptions from environmental investments including filtration systems, flue gas facilities and ash dams to privatized coal power plants for an additional 2 years. This so-called Article 45 would have allowed private operators of coal plants to continue polluting. During ...
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New report shows coal plant closures needed by 2030 to meet Paris targets
Entitled "A stress test for coal in Europe", it presents the first science-based shutdown schedule for the EU’s over 300 coal power plants – in order for it to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal. The report shows that emissions from coal in the EU electricity sector need to be close to zero by 2030 (95 percent by 2030; 100 percent by 2031), with a quarter of ...
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REGISTER NOW for the IEA`s Coal 2019 embargoed press webinar on Friday, 13 December
WHAT: Under embargo press webinar for the launch of IEA's Coal 2019: Analysis and Forecasts to 2024 WHO: Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy Markets and Security and Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, Senior Energy Analyst WHEN: Friday, 13 December 2019 at 15:00 Paris time The International Energy Agency will host an embargoed press webinar for the launch of the Coal 2019 report on Friday, 13 December ...
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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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Temporary rebound expected for coal mining in 2014
The U.S. coal mining industry will see a modest and short-lived rebound in 2014, driven by more production in Western states after two successive years of declines, according to a government forecast released Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration projected a 36 million ton increase in coal production for the year, to 1.04 billion tons. That's up 3.6 percent from 2013 figures. Low ...
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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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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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Consultation on increasing the recycling of coal power station ash
A consultation has been launched by the Waste Protocols Project, a joint Environment Agency and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) initiative, to get views on a Quality Protocol for the re-use of ashes from power generation. The protocol aims to increase their use in the construction industry and divert millions of tonnes of waste from landfill. Funded by Defra, the draft Quality ...
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Court deals major blow to UK coal-fired power plans
British Government Ministers have suffered a blow to their energy plans as six Greenpeace UK volunteers were acquitted of criminal damage by a Crown Court jury in a case that centred on the contribution made to climate change by burning coal. The charges arose after the six attempted to shut down the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent last year by scaling the chimney and painting the ...
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E.ON virtually completes divestment of 5,000 MW generation capacity in Germany
Swap of generation capacities with EDF and EnBW complete Sale of shares in Mehrum power station to Stadtwerke Hannover finalised Following approval by the relevant antitrust authorities, E.ON, EDF and EnBW have completed the swap of generation capacities, agreed last October. As a result, E.ON is receiving power from 800 MW of nuclear power capacity in France from EnBW. Furthermore, E.ON is ...
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