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New coal plants with 15 year life are economically and environmentally attractive
Recent reports to the contrary, new coal-fired plants are both economically and environmentally attractive compared to operating existing coal-fired plants or replacing them with alternative energy generation. This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine Company in its new 'CO2 Decisions' which is one of the Decision Trees in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions. Existing coal-fired plants are ...
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Air Pollution Control Second Only To Fuel In Cost Of Operating Coal-fired Power Plant
Operators of coal-fired power plants are making critical decisions relative to air pollution control which will greatly effect their competitive position and/or the costs for rate payers. In the 1970s a coal-fired plant could spend 2-3 mills/kWh for owning and operating an electrostatic precipitator and opacity monitor. Today the costs for particulate, SO2, NOx and toxic control can be more ...
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Coal-fired Power Plant Becomes A “Green” Chemical Producer
Coal-fired power plants can become major producers of hydrochloric acid and calcium chloride in a win-win situation. Environmental emissions from the power plant including mercury are reduced. Environmental emissions from hydrochloric acid manufacture are eliminated. The net cost of electricity goes down instead of up. These are the conclusions reached by the McIlvaine Company in its online, ...
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BASF Mercury Sorbent ZX solution for coal-fired power plants
BASF’s Catalysts division will introduce Mercury Sorbent ZX, an innovative mercury adsorbent solution for coal-fired power plants, at the Power Plant Air Pollutant Control “MEGA” Symposium, being held Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland. The symposium is sponsored by The U.S. Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Environmental ...
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Fluor Receives Notice to Proceed for New LCRA Gas Power Plant in Texas
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it was issued a notice to proceed by LCRA to build a new natural gas-fired power plant in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. LCRA’s Ferguson Replacement Project, a 540-megawatt combined-cycle power plant, received the required air permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental ...
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Clean Coal Is Available Now
Balancing energy costs with environmental goals is becoming increasingly difficult, but there are a number of promising opportunities which will make the achievement of this balance possible. These opportunities are analyzed by the McIlvaine Company in its Power Plant Air Quality Decisions service. The reality is that 50 percent of U.S. power is being produced in coal-fired plants. ...
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Utilizing the Excess Coal-fired Boiler Talent in the U.S.
The U.S. is not building new coal-fired power plants and will be shutting down nearly 70,000 MW of existing power plants. There is uncertainty regarding the remaining 190,000 MW depending on clean power regulations. The result of this shrinkage is a large excess of coal-fired boiler talent in the country. Two options for beneficial use are to channel this talent into: Other types of power ...
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Biomass Will Make Coal-fired Power Plants Greener
The U.S. should follow the European lead and burn more biomass in coal-fired boilers. Big equivalent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would be achieved according to the McIlvaine Company in its Power Plant Air Quality Decisions online system. In the U.K. one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants, (Drax), announced recently that 10 percent of the fuel input will come from biomass. ...
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SunPower Breaks Ground on 13.78-Megawatt Solar Power Plant at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) today announced that the company has broken ground on a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake) in California. The plant is expected to create 140 jobs during construction, and generate the equivalent of more than 30 percent of NAWS China Lake's annual energy load, helping to reduce costs by ...
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Study: Cutting Carbon Dioxide saves 3,500 US Lives s Year
The Obama Administration's hotly debated plan to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the nation's power plants will save about 3,500 lives a year by cutting back on other types of pollution as well, a new independent study concludes. A study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced - an anticipated byproduct ...
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Burn Waste PVC in Coal-fired Boilers and Solve Multiple Environmental Problems
Coal-fired power plants can add PVC scrap to their coal and make byproduct hydrochloric acid. The result would be elimination of mercury both from coal-fired stacks as well as from the obsolesced chlorine manufacturing facilities. There would also be greenhouse gas benefits and elimination of the environmental problems associated with disposing of millions of tons of waste PVC. These are the ...
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AMETEK Land ‘Power Insider Asia’ Interview – Air Quality of Power Facilities in Asia
Power Insider Asia speaks with Derek Stuart, Global Product Manager for combustion and environmental monitoring products at AMETEK Land to discuss some of the implications in the air quality of power facilities in Asia. Air quality control systems are required for a healthy indoor and outdoor environment. These systems make it possible for industries to comply with national pollution control ...
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US moves toward ban on coal-fired power plants to focus on renewables
In a report compiled in early 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages and talked about a resurgence in coal-fired electricity. But during 2007, 59 proposed U.S. coal-fired power plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition to the 59 plants that were dropped, close to 50 more coal plants are being ...
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National Climate Assessment Highlights Urgent Need to Cut Carbon Pollution
The third National Climate Assessment today documents the alarming extent to which climate change already is adversely impacting Americans all across the country, underlining anew the important opportunities we have today to take strong action to curb carbon pollution before the impacts worsen. The following are two statements, one by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense ...
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SMA Solar Inverter Factory Distinguished with International Energy Efficiency Award
Niestetal, Germany, April 27, 2010 – Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena), an alliance comprised of the German Energy Agency and European power companies, has honored SMA Solar Technology AG with the 2010 International Energy Efficiency First Place Award for its groundbreaking CO2-neutral solar inverter factory, located in Kassel, Germany. The award presentation was held in during the World ...
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13.78-Megawatt SunPower Solar Plant Planned for Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA, SPWRB) today announced that the company has begun designs for a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California and intends to break ground next month. SunPower's high-efficiency solar technology will generate the equivalent of more than 30 percent of China Lake's annual energy load, helping to reduce ...
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ADA-ES to Present at the Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference and the Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor Summit
ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADES) today announced that Michael D. Durham, President and CEO and Mark McKinnies, Senior Vice President and CFO will address institutional investors at two investment conferences scheduled as follows: Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM ET at The Omni Berkshire Place in New York. Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor ...
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New Report: America’s energy productivity and security has never been better
Key economic, security, and environmental indicators show the state of the U.S. energy economy has never been better, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council. One key finding: the United States has found so many innovative ways to save energy that the nation has more than doubled its economic productivity from oil, natural gas, and electricity over the past 40 years, ...
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NRDC Analysis: More Solutions, Cheaper and Cleaner Ways to Cut Carbon Pollution Under EPA Power Plant Standards
A ground-breaking Natural Resources Defense Council proposal on how to cut carbon pollution from America’s power plants can achieve even greater reductions than previously thought—and at less cost, NRDC said today as it released an updated analysis of its 2012 plan. NRDC’s new analyses shows that 470 to 700 million tons of carbon pollution can be eliminated per year in 2020 ...
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Air-powered cars to be manufactured in India after developer signs licensing agreement
One of the great success stories of recent technological history is carbon fiber. Light, stronger than steel and corrosion proof, it’s used in everything from airplanes to fishing rods to sailboat masts. Without carbon fiber composites Guy Negre wouldn’t have his air powered cars. It’s the super strong carbon fiber pressure tanks that make the cars possible. Soon cars running on compressed air ...
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