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Thermal Plant

Some Thermal Power Plants in India May Be Classified As Stranded Assets

Against the already identified ones, several more thermal power plants in India could potentially be classified as stranded assets, a report released on Wednesd…

Energy Storage Battery

Tesla is Going to Deploy a Big Battery in Alaska

Tesla is going to deploy a big new battery energy storage system in Alaska, and it’s going to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil-fuel power plants.

Distributed Generation

Why is Wind + Storage Getting Short Shrift?

Hybrid plants combining wind, solar and batteries can reliably supply electricity during peak-demand hours, the author writes.

Energy Storage System

Batteries Will Change the Energy Industry Forever

One of the biggest criticisms of renewable energy has been its inherently intermittent nature. Solar energy plants don't produce power at night, and wind turbin…

Coal Trade

Standard Chartered exits three Southeast Asia coal plants worth estimated $7 billion

Standard Chartered has pulled financing for three coal-fired power plants in Southeast Asia amid a global push to cut greenhouse gas emissions, throwing into do…

Thermal coal

Upbeat News for Climate Change: India gets Out of Coal

In the often grim world of climate reporting, there is at least one upbeat story: India has been aggressively pivoting away from coal-fired power plants and tow…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Indonesia's Biggest 2 X 1000 MW Coal-based Thermal Power Plant is Officially Operational

"The USC technology is projected to increase generator efficiency by 15 percent rather than non-USC while lowering the cost of fuel per kilo watt-hour. This sim…

Siemens Working on Modern Power Plants in Iran

Germany’s engineering giant Siemens, in a joint project with Iran’s largest energy construction and engineering group Mapna, is working on launching power pla…

100% Renewables Means 95% Less Water Consumption for Conventional Power Generation

According to a new study by Finland’s LUT University, solar PV consumes between 2% and 15% of the water that coal and nuclear power plants use to produce just …

Hydropower Industry Launches Major International Project to Demonstrate Flexibility

Over the next four years, flexibility technologies will be tested in the project’s three phases—innovation, demonstration, and deployment—at seven existing E…

Gas power plant

Uniper SE Will Turn 3.5 GW of Gas-Fired Power Plants Back in Germany

Gas plants also are benefiting both from a slump in the price of the fuel. Uniper, one of Europe’s largest utilities, will bring back on line as much as 3.5 gi…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Why ‘wet coal’ Causes Problems for Power Generation

Eskom has 13 coal-fired power stations around the country, which all have various requirements when it comes to coal. The one thing they all have in common is t…

Coal Pollution in the Western Balkans is a European Problem

Sixteen coal plants in the Western Balkans pollute as much as the entire EU fleet of 250 units, causing sickness and deaths across the continent. It’s high tim…

CCS

Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Advancing at Ethanol, Coal plants

As a Richardton ethanol facility gears up to store its carbon emissions underground, the company that runs a coal-fired power plant north of Washburn has secure…

Gas power plant

India Hopes to Revive 24GW of Gas-fired Power Plants

The Indian government is working on a new proposal to help 24 GW of stressed gas-fired power plants to operate at 90% at their capacity by importing gas and sel…