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.
NRG Energy Inc. will receive up to $154 million from the Department of Energy and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build a post-combustion carbon capture demonstration unit at the company's 3,564 MW WA Parish coal-fired power plant in Texas.
Fluor Corp. and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. have formed an alliance with Fluor's Power Group to market and sell carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the United States and Canada.
Two UK coal fired power plants, E.ON's controversial Kingsnorth project and Iberdrola Scottish Power's Longannet, are to be given government support that could be worth tens of millions of pounds to develop technology for storing carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Financial Times.
E.ON has submitted environmental scoping reports outlining the company's plans for a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline for its proposed Kingsnorth cleaner coal fired power station.
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Three companies are making plans to build a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Nevada.
BHE Holdings Inc. agreed to purchase Maine & Maritimes Corp. for $108 million. The two utilities would keep their separate names.
Exelon agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by the Illinois attorney general after three of the company's nuclear power plants reportedly leaked tritium-contaminated water into the ground.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded grants to three companies for conceptual design and planning for its Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).
Florida Power & Light (FPL) is studying a delay in the construction of two proposed nuclear reactors at the company's Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Florida and may reconsider seeking a federal loan guarantee.
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