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Co-Firing With Ammonia Project Set for Chilean Coal Plant

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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:14:50 +0000

Power generators are exploring how they can retrofit coal-fired power plants to enable co-firing with ammonia, part of their strategy to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The latest project to look at the concept is led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), which on Dec.  7 announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) […]

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POWER Digest [November 2022]

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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:09:00 +0000

JX Nippon Acquires NRG’s Share of Petra Nova Carbon Capture Plant for $3.6 Million. ENEOS Group, a Japanese energy and non-ferrous metals business group that owns JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration, will

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South America Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 2: Chile & Brazil

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Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:48:54 +0000

By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.” If you missed part 1 of this series, see: South American Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 1: Argentina, Peru, & Ecuador. Chile […]

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Solar Park Powering Astronomical Observatory In Chile’s Atacama Desert

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:40:42 +0000

A recent story at PV Magazine shares the story of an observatory in Chile powered by solar power. A solar plant with a capacity of 9 megawatts has now been completed at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory. The PV installation is also intended to power the world’s largest telescope, which is currently being built […]

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Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

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Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 12:03:51 +0000

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium. Lithium resources are concentrated in locations that have […]

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Lithium: Good News for the Australian Mining Industry

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Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:00:33 +0000

In good news for the Australian mining industry, miners produced 55,000 tonnes of lithium in 2021, a 28% increase from the 39,700 tonnes of lithium produced in 2020. This is approximately half of global production. Australia is the global leader in lithium production in 2021, with Chile (26,000 tonnes), China (14,000 tonnes), and Argentina (6,200 […]

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Report: Investment in Renewables Hit Record High in 2019

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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:33:18 +0000

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Financial support for installations of offshore wind projects helped investment in renewable energy capacity hit a record high in 2019, according to data from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF) released Jan. 16. The group said worldwide investment in renewables was $282.2 billion last year, up 1% from $280.2 billion in 2018. Financing of offshore wind projects, […]

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Chile cancels Apec meet over massive unrest – Palace

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Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:41:12 +0000

AS massive street protests gripped the country, Chile cancelled the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Summit next month at which President Rodrigo Duterte and 19 other world leaders were expected to attend, Malacañang said. Quoting Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a text message to reporters that the Apec summit would […]

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