Germany Will Support 10 GW of New Gas Plants, With Eye Toward Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:50:48 +0000

German officials announced a new plan for the country’s power generation, a strategy that includes putting at least 10 GW of new gas-fired capacity up for tenders. Officials on Feb. […]

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CCS Redux: Carbon Capture Is Expensive Because Physics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:04:20 +0000

Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the … [continued]

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Distributed Antenna System Solves Power Plant Communications Problem

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:24:48 +0000

Collaboration was the main success factor in the deployment of an all-carrier enterprise distributed antenna system (DAS) for a Midwest power plant. The Problem A power plant in the Midwestern […]

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Importing Ammonia As An Energy Carrier Is Bad Policy & Worse Economics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:42:45 +0000

Many power-to-x firms and energy exporting companies are looking at Japan especially, but also other hydrocarbon light countries as a … [continued]

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Hydrogen Production Project Moves Forward at Wyoming Coal Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:08:28 +0000

Wyoming officials will help fund a hydrogen generation project that will have coal as its energy source, using carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) along with a chemical looping technology. Babcock […]

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TVA Urges Conservation as Cold Snap Sets All-Time Peak Demand Record

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:37:42 +0000

TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is located on 1,700 acres on the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir near Spring City, in East Tennessee. Each unit has a capacity of about 1,150 MW of electricity. Source: TVA

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has urged conservation as it grapples with record-high power demand amid extremely cold temperatures and near-zero wind chill over its seven-state region in the Southeast. […]

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Poland Set to End Coal-Fired Power Generation

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:34:08 +0000

Poland’s top climate official said the country is preparing to set a date for a complete phase-out of coal-fired power generation, just months after the nation elected a new government […]

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Study Finds ‘Advanced Nuclear Is the Clear Winner’ to Replace Comanche Coal-Fired Power Plant

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:43:16 +0000

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A report published by the Pueblo Innovative Energy Solutions Advisory Committee (PIESAC) says the closure of Comanche Unit 3, a coal-fired power plant capable of generating about 800 MW gross, […]

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PJM Urges Delayed Retirement of 840-MW Fossil Fuel Power Plant, Citing Reliability Impacts

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:17:22 +0000

The H.A. Wagner Power Plant, located outside Baltimore, MD, is fueled by coal, natural gas, and oil. It includes an approximately 13-megawatt gas turbine unit, which can serve as a peaking unit. Unit 3 will convert to run on oil by the end of 2023. Courtesy: Talen Energy

PJM has urged Talen Energy to delay its deactivation of two of four units at the 840-MW coal, oil, and gas–fired Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station in Maryland until transmission […]

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COP28 Concludes with Landmark Decision to Shift Away from Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:00:03 +0000

Negotiators from nearly every country in the world closed COP28 with a decision that—for the first time—formally recognizes the necessity of moving away from fossil fuels to achieve the Paris […]

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