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Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. EPA’s proposed standard reflects the ongoing trend in the power sector to build cleaner plants that take advantage of American-made technologies, including new, clean-burning, efficient natural gas generation, […]
Mar 28 2012 | Posted in Fossil Follies,Politics | Read More » 
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 […]
Jan 24 2012 | Posted in Moving Beyond Big Coal | Read More » 
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 […]
Aug 15 2010 | Posted in | Read More » 
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 […]
Aug 1 2010 | Posted in Articles,Featured | Read More » 
“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 […]
Jul 20 2010 | Posted in Articles,Headline,Studies | Read More » 
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 […]
Jul 5 2010 | Posted in Articles,Climate Change,Studies | Read More » 
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 […]
Jul 5 2010 | Posted in China,Green Building,Headline | Read More »
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 […]
Jun 30 2010 | Posted in Featured,Solar Thermal,Technology | Read More » 
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
