Indiana Utility Will Convert Remaining Coal Units to Burn Natural Gas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:01:42 +0000

A major Indiana utility said it’s preparing to switch its remaining coal-fired power plant to burn natural gas. AES Indiana on March 12 said the two coal-burning units at its […]

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U.S. Natural Gas Supplies High, Prices at Record Low

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:58:20 +0000

The winter heating season, which is often defined as November through March in the U.S., is coming to an end with natural gas inventories 37% above the five-year average, according […]

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Get Ready For California’s Three Sweeping New Climate Disclosure Laws

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:05:27 +0000

Can a requirement to simply disclose information truly be a big deal? Can a requirement that only applies to big companies, or companies that do business in California, actually impact […]

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EPA Drops Existing Gas-Fired Plants from Contentious Power Plant GHG Rule

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:21:56 +0000

(Updated March 7 with responses from EPA): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will drop requirements covering existing natural gas-fired power plants in its final Section 111 rule regulating power […]

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USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:01:14 +0000

For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation … [continued]

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UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:44 +0000

The 2.6-GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions

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2. Drax’s conversion of its 4-GW coal-fired power plant to a 2.6-GW biomass plant leveraged its existing steam turbines, generators, specially built trains, and pulverizing mills. But to accommodate new storage needs, the company built giant EcoStore biomass domes—advanced technological structures carefully attuned to storing biomass. Courtesy: Drax Group

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Coal Continues as Key Part of Japan’s Energy Mix

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:30 +0000

Japan’s energy mix is in flux as the country slowly brings idled nuclear reactors online. The 2011 Fukushima disaster upended the nation’s power generation, resulting in more reliance on coal and natural

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POWER Digest [March 2024]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:10:42 +0000

Dominion Secures Final Approvals for 2.6-GW Offshore Wind Project. Dominion Energy on Jan. 30 said it received the last two major federal approvals needed to kick off construction of its 2.6-GW Coastal

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Fusion Energy Project Sited at Former TVA Coal-Fired Power Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:00:30 +0000

A major U.S. utility is part of a fusion energy project that would be located at the site of one of the company’s retired coal-fired power plants. Type One Energy […]

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New 1.2-GW Natural Gas-Fired Plant Announced for Texas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:36:21 +0000

A Texas-based energy company has announced plans to build a 1.2-GW natural gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Texas, with construction expected to begin in 2025. Sandow Lakes Energy Co. […]

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