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October 30, 2009
New We Energies Coal Plant Generating PowerThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, “We Energies’ newest coal-fired plant is generating power, after ‘significant progress’ in construction over the past three months, the company’s chairman said Thursday. The coal plant consists of two coal-fired boilers next to an older coal plant on Lake Michigan in Oak Creek.”
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October 29, 2009
AEP To Unveil Carbon Capture Project TodayWest Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, “The Mountaineer coal-fired power plant in New Haven is getting international attention because Friday morning, AEP officials are scheduled to unveil the plant’s carbon capture and sequestration technology.” The facility “is the first of its kind to both capture CO2 emissions and sequester them underground, says AEP spokesman Pat Hemlepp.”
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October 27, 2009
Company To Sell Captured CO2 To Oil ProducersGreenwire reports that Blue Source LLC announced Monday that “it will market almost 3 million tons of carbon dioxide captured at a coal power plant slated for West Texas.” Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC “aims to begin construction of the 400-megawatt power plant next year near the city of Odessa,” and “would use what is known as an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) process to gasify coal and capture about 90 percent of the fossil fuel's CO2.”
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October 26, 2009
DOE To Launch Innovation Agency, Announce GrantsThe New York Times reports that on Monday the Department of Energy “will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy” by “awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will make gasoline, enzymes that will capture carbon dioxide to counter global warming and batteries so cheap that they will allow the use of solar power all night long.”
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October 25, 2009
AEP To Kick-Off CCS Project This WeekThe Charleston (WV) Gazette reported, “Later this week, American Electric Power will begin pumping a small stream of carbon dioxide from its Mountaineer Power Plant deep under the bottomland along the Ohio River in Mason County.” The company “hopes the gas stays there.” AEP “wants it tucked safely away, were it can't add to the heat-trapping gases already building up to dangerous levels in the Earth's atmosphere.” If the “utility's pilot project works out, it might just help save the world -- and along the way rescue the coal industry.”
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October 23, 2009
Arkansas Supreme Court To Review Coal-Fired Power Plant CaseThe AP reports, “The Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday it will review a case involving Southwestern Electric Power Company’s planned coal-fired power plant,” after “the state Court of Appeals had overturned a permit that was issued by the Arkansas Public Service Commission” for the $1.6 billion project. SWEPCO appealed that decision, and now the Arkansas Supreme Court is going to review the case.”
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October 23, 2009
Study: Minnesota Needs New Coal-Fired PlantThe St. Paul (MN) Pioneer-Press reports, “Minnesota may need a new 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant to meet growing demand, according to a Department of Commerce study that will be presented to state lawmakers today. The study by the department's Office of Energy Security is meant to be a forecasting tool for policy-makers, but environmentalists who oppose building more coal power plants say the study isn't specific enough to be of much practical use.”
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October 22, 2009
Utilities Promise Electric Car InfrastructureThe AP reports, “A trade group representing 70 percent of U.S. electric utilities” has promised “to work aggressively to put charging stations and other infrastructure in place to support electric vehicles that soon will be in dealer showrooms. According to an industry executive, utilities “will develop charging systems, advanced meters, electricity pricing that gives customers an incentive to recharge at night, and a grid that interacts with cars.” The utilities have also “pledged to set up customer service networks to handle questions about the location of charging stations to rates or government incentive plans to buy electric vehicles.”
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October 22, 2009
Plug-In Cars Are Almost Here, but Charging Stations LagThe New York Times reports that sales of electric vehicle, which are set to be launched next year, “may be limited by the lack of a national infrastructure to support them. … Among the biggest challenges for automakers is overcoming consumers’ fears of becoming stranded with a dead battery -- what the industry calls ‘range anxiety.’”
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October 22, 2009
CARBON CAPTURE: University will study sequestration in S.C.The University of South Carolina will study whether carbon dioxide can be stored in the state's abandoned wells, coal beds and underground reservoirs of salt water. The school received one of 11 national awards from the Department of Energy to study carbon capture and sequestration. The $4.95 million grant will be distributed over three years.
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