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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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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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Countdown to Climate Summit arrives in Beijing
With only nine months left until the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Greenpeace China has brought the countdown clock to Beijing. Activists turned one of Beijing's ancient city gates into a gigantic countdown clock marking the time left till the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The glowing projection, which spread across the giant gate, read: 'Time is Running Out to Stop Global Warming.' And ...
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Germany phasing out some worst-polluting coal plants by 2020
The German government is scrapping plans for a levy on the most-polluting coal-fired power stations and will instead phase some of the plants out. The Economy Ministry said Thursday that 13 percent of Germany's total lignite-burning power plant capacity will be put into a reserve role and then phased out entirely after four years. It dropped previous proposals for a levy on such plants, which ...
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Mountain hollows could be used to generate energy
Chinese researchers have developed a novel approach to generating renewable energy that uses undeveloped mountains as 'solar chimneys' to convert sunlight into electricity. Although untested, such technology could potentially compete with clean coal power plants in terms of cost and make significant contributions to energy supplies in mountainous countries. Design of a standard solar chimney is ...
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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 ...
By E.ON AG
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Europe dodges the carbon pollution issue
European environment ministers have sidestepped the key emissions reduction strategy of classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant during consideration of new laws to limit industrial pollution. The move further questions Europe's claim to be a leader in climate action, with California requiring carbon pollution mitigation for the last two years and reclassification under consideration elsewhere. ...
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Scotland told to hold off on new coal power until ready for CCS
Scotland, which has just issued a report extolling its potential for carbon capture and storage, should hold off on constructing any new coal-fired power stations until carbon storage becomes a reality, WWF-Scotland said last week. The government study, Opportunities for C02 Storage Around Scotland, notes that “evidence for climate change and its potentially catastrophic effects on the world is ...
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Greenpeace starts an energy revolution in Sardinia
Sardinian authorities have promised to revise the region's energy plans to meet EU climate protection targets, following a Greenpeace blockade at the E.ON owned Fiume Santo coal-fired power station to protest planned expansion of climate changing coal capacity in the region. Early Sunday morning, Greenpeace activists blocked conveyor belts at the plant, preventing coal from being carried to the ...
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Investing in power plants: effects of volatile CO2 prices and price caps
A recent study has modelled the effects of carbon dioxide prices and price caps on decisions to investment in new power plants. It found that unstable prices can encourage development of coal-fired power stations fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In addition, low price caps on carbon are not likely to encourage a switch to biomass-fired power plants. The EU is committed to ...
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Dirtiest 30 Power Plants Spew 10 Percent of Europe`s Carbon
BRUSSELS, Belgium (ENS) - The 30 dirtiest power stations in Europe were responsible for 10 percent of all European Union emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in 2006, finds a new analysis issued Thursday by the global conservation group WWF. The title of dirtiest power stations goes to Greece's Agios Dimitrios and Kardia, owned by DEH, the Public Power Corporation of Greece. They are ...
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Fluence Energy Storage Project to Provide Advanced System Stability Services in the UK
Statkraft has chosen Fluence Energy UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Fluence Energy, Inc., to deliver its first battery-based energy storage project connected directly to the transmission network. It is also the third project across the UK and Ireland that Statkraft, Europe's largest generator of renewable energy, will deliver together with Fluence, a market leader in energy storage products and ...
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Three Chinese firms `more polluting than UK`, says Greenpeace
China's three largest power companies emit more CO2 than the entire of Britain, Greenpeace said this week. A new report found by burning 20 per cent of China's coal in 2008, the top ten companies emitted an equivalent of 1.44 billion tonnes of CO2. That year the largest three (Huaneng, Datang and Guodian) together emitted more than the United Kingdom's total emissions during the same period. ...
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Waste disposal, bioenergy and climate protection can go hand in hand
The recycling of the raw material waste and the utilization of biomass for energy recovery can contribute towards keeping the air clean and protecting resources. This has been confirmed in studies conducted by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (UBA), the Öko-Institut Damstadt and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU) in Heidelberg. The motto of this year’s ...
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What is powering your Christmas lights?
From Santa’s cave to the neon-lit streetscapes of Australian suburbia, the dazzle of Christmas lights heralds the arrival of the festive season better than any harking angel.But what powers these festive illuminations? If the answer is electricity then be aware that 80 percent of electricity consumed in Australia is generated from large, centralised carbon–intensive, coal-based power stations ...
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Italian court throws out injunctions against Greenpeace coal plant protest
An Italian court has thrown out injunctions against 12 Greenpeace volunteers who took action against Italy's most polluting coal power plant. The court ruling even stated that the protest was 'justified due to the danger of the coal plant to the local area'. In November 2007 we paid a visit to the Brindisi Sud coal power station, which belches out nearly 15 million tons of global warming ...
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Greenpeace calls on the Italian government to quit coal and stop blocking Europe`s climate deal
This morning, five Greenpeace activists scaled a crane at the new coal-fired power station in Civitavecchia, near Rome. The protestors unfurled two banners that read: 'Italian government opposes Kyoto' ('Il governo contro Kyoto') and 'No new coal' ('mai più carbone'). At the same time, five more volunteers in inflatable boats, launched from Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, painted 'Quit Coal' on ...
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Scottish sandstone rocks could hold up to 100 years of carbon emissions
New scientist report estimates the Captain sandstone could store carbon emissions from power stations in Scotland using CCS technology New report found sandstone rocks under the North Sea could hold up to a century's worth of carbon emissions from Scotland’s power industry and create tens of thousands of new jobs. The study has estimated that the rock formation, known as Captain ...
By Vital Energi
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Mainstream launches $1.9bn pan-African renewable energy platform with Actis
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power today announces the launch of a pan-African renewable energy generation platform, Lekela Power, which it has formed along with Actis, the global pan-emerging market private equity firm. Lekela Power will provide between 700 and 900 megawatts of wind and solar power across Africa by 2018. Mainstream and Actis have already formed two ...
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