Report Examines Impacts and Alternatives for Coal-Fired Power Plant’s Compliance with Upcoming Regional Haze Standard

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WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the availability of a report by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the possible impacts of new emission standards for the control of regional haze. DOI commissioned the study and will provide it to the [...]

Alternative Energy News – World’s Largest Coal-to-Olefins Gasification Units Starts Up in China

GE Technology Helps the Country Increase its Important Coal-to-Olefins (Plastics) Production BEIJING, CHINA—August 12, 2010—The gasification unit at one of the world’s largest coal-to-olefins projects successfully started up at the China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Ltd.’s project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia (Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefins project). The gasification unit uses advanced [...]

Power Utilities Blocking Solar Energy Jobs & Development Act for their Own Gain?

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The state’s failure to pass the New York Solar Jobs and Development Act is putting the Empire State further behind other states in the Northeast, according to New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) that advocated for passage of the landmark solar power bill. “New York is falling further and further behind other states in [...]

Will the Global Clean Energy Revolution Arrive in Time?

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“For several years, the IEA has been calling for an energy revolution to tackle climate change and enhance energy security and economic development. For the first time, we see early indications that such a revolution is under way,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Presenting the new IEA study Energy [...]

The Case for Clean Energy -Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming Than Thought

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The case for the global adoption of clean energy becomes stronger everyday not only in the daily headlines about the worst man-made environmental disaster possibly of all time but in the effects of global warming. A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that [...]

China Announces Plans for New-Energy Demonstration City

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China’s central government has approved proposals to establish a national-level new-energy demonstration city in Turpan in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and the first low-carbon demonstration township in the Jujiapu Financial District of Tianjin, according to Zhang Baoguo, head of the National Energy Administration (NEA). Zhang said that the central government has approved the national-level new-energy [...]

1st of its kind – Hybrid Solar-Coal with Parabolic-trough Solar Thermal technology

Xcel Energy is now operating a first-of-its-kind demonstration of a hybrid solar-coal approach, using solar thermal parabolic-trough technology integrated with a coal-fired power plant. The project, located at Xcel Energy’s Cameo Generating Station near Grand Junction, Colo., is designed to increase the plant’s efficiency, decrease the use of coal, test the commercial viability of concentrating [...]

The Future of Molten Salt Solar Energy Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power Worldwide, 2010-2016

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A new study on Molten Salt Solar Energy Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP): Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2019 has been released by reportsandreports.com . Here are some of the highlights and excerpts. It is easier to implement one large project in a controlled area than to implement multiple medium size project to [...]

G20 needs to Support Solar Thermal Energy and Abandon Big Coal and Oil Handouts

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As BP’s oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, G20 heads of state, due to meet in Toronto this weekend, are planning to dilute last year’s commitment to phase out subsidies to Big Oil and Big Coal, according a copy of the draft statement seen by the environmental groups, Greenpeace and Oil Change [...]

Australian Solar Thermal Companies Struggle for Government Support

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A recent article from”Beyond Zero Emissions”  suggests that all is not well with the Solar Thermal Industry in the “land down under” . It appears that the federal government is eager to show new support for the industry after cristism for allowing a solar thermal Australian startup company ( Ausra) to be purchased by a global energy company. The government [...]

Australia is Aiming High with Solar Thermal Electrical, Hot Water and Solar PV Technology

 The largest Solar Thermal Plant (44 MW) in the southern hemisphere will be loacated in Queensland, Australia, according to Austrailia’s Premier Anna Bligh. As part of a $115 million solar package in the 2010-2011 budget, the government is contributing $35 million to the project, which will be located at Kogan Creek, near Dalby. This funding [...]

500 Solar Companies Are Standing Ready To Help Homeowners Control Their Electricity Costs

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Companies striving to build a stronger solar energy industry throughout Pennsylvania are converging on Harrisburg to persuade lawmakers to pass House Bill 2405 by sharing personal stories and demonstrating the role that tax incentives and state grants are playing in creating new, sustainable, good-paying jobs and helping homeowners and businesses better control their electricity costs. [...]

Renewable Solar and Wind Energy get the Green Light in Ohio

A late-night vote Thursday by the Ohio House demonstrates Ohio’s bipartisan commitment to bringing clean energy, job creation and greater investment in local communities vying for renewable energy projects. “By eliminating this tax disadvantage, Ohio lawmakers have strengthened the renewable market and secured millions in new tax revenue for local communities,” Lystra said. “Additionally, Ohio’s [...]

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