Czech Environment Minister Jan Dusik tendered his resignation due to a disagreement with the prime minister over the issuance of environmental clearance for a planned renovation of a Czech coal fired power plant owned by CEZ.
Two proposed IGCC coal-fired power projects have price tags that range between $5,500/kW and $5,800/kW. Both hope to win regulatory approval and begin construction in the coming months.
Mississippi Power Co. is proposing to cap the cost of its proposed 582 MW Kemper County IGCC plant at $3.2 billion, or almost $5,500/kW. The cap would be around 30 percent higher than current cost estimates.
Ayrshire Power, owned by the UK's Peel Energy, has submitted plans to the Scottish Government to build a GBP3bn ($4.5bn), 1.6 GW coal fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Hunterston.
Drax, the owner of the UK's biggest coal fired power station, has embarked on feasibility studies into the use of carbon capture and storage after joining talks with a regional development agency to help develop its GBP2bn ($3.5bn) carbon cluster project.
A draft policy calling for power plants to recycle and reuse cooling water through closed cycle cooling technology could affect six New York State nuclear reactors and may require $2 billion in investment. Similar rules affect power generators in California and New Jersey.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will spend nearly $2 million in fiscal year 2010 to investigate the potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas may have on water quality and public health.
19 March 2010 - Utilities in several US states have recently embraced new energy storage technologies as part of the deployment of advanced smart grids, reports the US Department of Energy (DOE) in its Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy newsletter. Smart grid and power storage technologies are seen by many as the key to the connection of large amounts of distributed generation capacity.
19 March 2010 - A new hydrogen fuelling station planned to be built by Air Products in
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