Your Source for Energy Jobs & Industry News
Project Tundra, a demonstration project that seeks to capture an average of 4 million tons of carbon dioxide from flue gas from two lignite-fired units at the 705-MW Milton R. […]
The post Lignite Coal Power CCS Project in North Dakota Gets First Tranche of $ 350M Federal Funding appeared first on POWER Magazine.
An Indiana electric utility has announced a $ 1.1 billion investment in that state that includes switching coal-fired units to run on natural gas, along with new solar power and battery […]
The post AES Indiana Switching Last Coal Units to Gas, Adding Solar and Storage appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Michigan’s major electric utility said it plans to build one of the nation’s largest standalone battery energy storage projects at the site of a retired coal-fired power plant. Detroit-based DTE […]
The post Michigan Utility Replacing Coal Plant With Large Energy Storage System appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Coal generation in the US was down about 29% in Q1 2023 according to EIAs Electric Power Monthly. A more interesting story to me is what happens on the state level. In particular, I like the stories in: Georgia – where coal generation was down 48% Y-Y even before new Vogtle unit was added to the grid. Oklahoma – where coal generation was down 74% and the capacity factor for remainin..
Energy Central…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying a regulatory sweep targeting more stringent limits on traditional pollutants that could accelerate coal power plant closures. A coal trade group estimates that even without new rules, 86 GW of coal generation is slated to retire by 2030.
While the U.S. Supreme Court in June curtailed the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, the EPA is working on other rules in “an integrated and coordinated approach” that will allow the agency to tackle “threats” posed by power plants to clean air, safe water, and healthy land, EPA Administrator Michael Regan has said.
The EPA chief recently told Reuters the agency remains undeterred by the Supreme Court’s constraints. “We want to present the industry with a suite of regulations so that they can make the best long-term investments possible,” the news agency quoted Regan as saying on July 29. “The power sector will … look at the cost benefit of complying with those and more than likely stay with the conclusion that … clean energy is more cost effective for them and for their customers,” he reportedly said.…