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Czech environment minister quits over CEZ coal plant repowering (Mar 19, 2010)

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.

IGCC power plant project costs top $5,500/kW (Mar 19, 2010)

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.

Proposed coal-fired IGCC power plant would cost $5,500/kW (Mar 19, 2010)

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 submits plans to build 1.6 GW coal fired CCS plant in Scotland (Mar 16, 2010)

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 joins talks over carbon capture and storage project (Mar 11, 2010)

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.

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Nuclear power plants face cooling water restrictions (Mar 19, 2010)

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.

EPA to investigate 'unconventional' natural gas recovery process (Mar 19, 2010)

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.

Two new systems from American DG (Mar 19, 2010)
19 March 2010 - Saint Elizabeth Home Gets New Energy System Without Capital and Financing
Us-based small-scale CHP system supplier and operator American DG Energy has installed two new systems under its no-capital ‘on-site utility’ concept
US utilities test new power storage technologies (Mar 19, 2010)

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.

California hydrogen fuelling station to incorporate fuel cell (Mar 19, 2010)

19 March 2010 - A new hydrogen fuelling station planned to be built by Air Products in Fountain Valley, California, is to incorporate FuelCell Energy's ‘DFC-H2’ fuel cell technology to produce clean on-site power and heat – and renewable hydrogen.

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