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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Read moreCredit 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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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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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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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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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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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:15:44 +0000
In 2020, a bucolic part of western Mississippi, the tiny village of Satartia, experienced a terrifying disaster. About 300 people … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:45:42 +0000
Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the … [continued]
The post CCS Redux: Global Spend On Carbon Capture Since 1970 Would Have Avoided More CO2 If Spent on Wind & Solar appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:34:28 +0000
Data from Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a group that tracks power generation projects worldwide, shows that China was responsible for construction of 96% of all new coal-fired facilities globally last […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:57:10 +0000
Over the past year or so, energy return on energy invested (EROEI) has shown up multiple times for me as … [continued]
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