Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:00:17 +0000
The new rule is long overdue—the last set of trucks standards were developed over two decades ago. Unfortunately, the agency’s proposal is weaker than existing state action and fails to advance the deployment of zero-emission trucks at the pace needed to address the urgent public health crisis caused by tailpipe exhaust.
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:14:10 +0000
The post EPA to Withdraw Federal Regional Haze Plan for Utah Based on New Analysis appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Citing new technical information gleaned from a more modern modeling analysis, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to withdraw a federal implementation plan (FIP) to control regional haze from four PacifiCorp coal-fired units in Utah and allow the state to revert to conditions set out in a 2015-submitted state implementation plan (SIP). The agency’s […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:21:53 +0000
The post Ansaldo, Equinor Partner to Validate 100% Hydrogen Gas Turbine appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Italian turbine maker Ansaldo Energia and carbon capture specialist Equinor are collaborating on the validation of a 100% hydrogen gas turbine combustor. Under an agreement announced on Oct. 24, Equinor (formerly Statoil) will co-fund tests that could show Ansaldo’s GT36 H-class gas turbine combustor can be operated purely with hydrogen. “The purpose of this collaboration […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:53:13 +0000
Vistra Energy will shutter four coal-fired power plants—a total 2 GW—as required by Illinois’ recently revised Multi-Pollutant Standard (MPS) rule, but CEO Curtis Morgan noted the move was “inevitable” due to the changing regulatory environment and unfavorable economic conditions in the MISO market. The company on Aug. 21 said it will close the 54-year-old 915-MW […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:27:45 +0000
New guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Aug. 20 to help states prepare for the second implementation period of the federal regional haze program puts emphasis on “discretion and flexibilities” they can use to comply with long-standing mandates to protect visibility in federal areas. While it is not binding, the EPA’s […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:39:47 +0000
July marks two important milestones that set gas-fired generation on its course to becoming a dominant form of power generation: commercial operation of the world’s first industrial gas turbine in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1939, and commercial operation of the first gas turbine in the U.S. used to generate electric power—a 3.5-MW General Electric (GE) unit […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:21:45 +0000
Power plant SO2 and NOx emissions have decreased 92% and 84%, respectively, since Congress passed major amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Meanwhile, mercury air emissions from power plants have decreased 90% since 2000, as federal limits on mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants went into effect in 2015. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 22:04:11 +0000
Since the 1940s, when General Electric (GE), launched its gas turbine operations, the company has pioneered and commercialized a lengthy list of gas turbine technologies, large and small. As the decarbonization movement gains pace and more renewables flood the landscape, the company’s gas turbines have taken on new crucial roles to provide dispatchability and flexibility. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:32:15 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will refrain from amending the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO2), retaining a 2010 rule, which it said adequately protects public health. The agency on Feb. 25 said in a notice that a periodically required review of the primary—or health-based—rule concluded no revision was necessary. The […]
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