Jeremy Lovell, Planet Ark - World Environment News, 22/7/2008 Original URL LONDON - The British government must set a deadline for closing all coal-fired power stations whose smokestack emissions have not been slashed by carbon capture technology, a parliamentary report said on Tuesday. The Environmental Audit Committee also warned against the government allowing coal-fired power plants
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The change is a striking sign of the times, reflecting growing concern in many European countries over the skyrocketing price of oil and energy security, and the warming effects of carbon emissions from fossil fuels. All have combined to make this once-scorned form of energy far more palatable.
“Italy has had the most dramatic, the most public turnaround, but the sentiments aga
Three hydropower plants, Vinh Son III, Vinh Son IV and Vinh Son V, are under construction in Vinh Son commune, Vinh Thach mountainous district, Binh Dinh province by Vinh Son-Song Hinh Hydro-power Joint Stock Company and Vinh Son Investment Joint Stock Company.
Construction sites are located on the Kon River. They will be built at a cost of VND 660 billion, VND 400 billion, and VND 600 billion
Thirty-nine independent hydro-electric power plants (IPPs) are expected to become operational within the year, contributing 396 MW to the national power grid, which is under great strain by surging demands.
The first six of these IPPs have already begun generating power to a total capacity of 43.1 MW, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The six privately invested IPPs are located in
Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generated, according to a Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study. The World desperately needs a liquid fuel replacement for oil in the near future, but producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is the wrong way to do it, because you use more energy to produce them than you get out from the combustion of these product.
Indonesia's state electricity company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) said Friday it has awarded contracts to build two coal-fired power plants worth about $890 million to two groups. PLN president Fahmi Mochtar said Sinohydro Corp. was awarded a contract to build the Nagan Raya power plant in Aceh province. The other contractor, a consortium consisting of China National Machinery Corp, China National Electric Equipment Corp. and local company PT Penta Adi Samudra, was awarded a contract to build the Tanjung Awar-Awar plant in East Java province, Mochtar said. He said the Nagan Raya plant will have two generators with capacity of 110 megawatts each and will be completed within 24 to 26 months. The Tanjung Awar-Awar plant will also have two generators each with the capacity to g
Earlier this week, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade scheme covering power plants in ten north-eastern US States, announced that it will hold its first auction on the 10th of September.
Environmental Capital reported an estimate from ICF that a reasonable price per ton in the RGGI would be US$2.32. Earlier today, the first [...]
Some 22 synthetic cycle power plants will be built nationwide by the end of the Iranian year 1391 (to start on March 21, 2013), said an official here Monday.The official in charge of implementing the Synthetic Cycle Power Plants' Projects at Iran Power Development Organization Ali Bani-Hashemi said Monday that once the power plants are established, more than 3,500 megawatts will be added to the country's power generation capacity.Bani-Hashemi said that the 12,000 megawatt gas power plants have been either operational or are in the stage of construction. If they are turned into synthetic cycle power plants, 6,000 megawatts will be added to the country's power generation capacity, he added.Via: Islamic Republic News Agency
Thousands of people took to streets in Indonesia's Central Java province Tuesday demanding the government to drop the plan to build a nuclear power plant in the town of Kudus. Local residents and environment activists flocked the main streets and public places in Kudus, about 400 km east of Jakarta, in protest against the nuclear plant due in construction started by 2016. Metro TV footage showed hundreds of people came to the local administration center aboard huge trucks while more people walked on the streets, causing massive traffic jams in the small town. People carried banners that read "say no to nuclear."
Indian company Sun Group on Sunday signed a framework agreement with Russia's HydroOGK for the construction of a string of midget and mini hydro-electric power plants in India and Nepal. HydroOGK is Russia's largest hydroelectric company and has a rich expertise in building mini and midget power plants in the Caucasus Mountains. Announcing the signing of the deal between the Indian group owned by the Khemkas and the Russian company at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia's Economy and Trade Minister German Gref said the agreement was of key importance for Russian Electricity Monopoly Unified Energy System (UES), which controls HydroOGK. The two companies would set up a managing company on a parity basis before the end of the year, HydroOGK CEO Vyacheslav Sinyugin said. Sun Group, which initially invested in Russia's beer industry, is currently involved in joint projects with Itera, Russia's largest independent natural gas producer. Suntera, the joint venture of
Indian company Sun Group on Sunday signed a framework agreement with Russia's HydroOGK for the construction of a string of midget and mini hydro-electric power plants in India and Nepal. HydroOGK is Russia's largest hydroelectric company and has a rich expertise in building mini and midget power plants in the Caucasus Mountains. Announcing the signing of the deal between the Indian group owned by the Khemkas and the Russian company at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia's Economy and Trade Minister German Gref said the agreement was of key importance for Russian Electricity Monopoly Unified Energy System (UES), which controls HydroOGK. The two companies would set up a managing company on a parity basis before the end of the year, HydroOGK CEO Vyacheslav Sinyugin said. Sun Group, which initially invested in Russia's beer industry, is currently involved in joint projects with Itera, Russia's largest independent natural gas producer. Suntera, the joint venture of
by Colin BrownRead more | Digg story A blueprint for a new generation of power stations was revealed yesterday as Tony Blair committed Britain to a nuclear component in energy supply. The Government announced a five-month consultation exercise on its plans for new nuclear plants by the private sector but a private consultants' report for the Department of Trade and Industry raised suspicions that the consultation is a sham. Critics called the consultation a "farce" and nuclear power would be a "dangerous, dirty white elephant". The report says new nuclear plants should be built predominantly in the South-east where the main demand for energy exists. Many of the plants are on the coast, and could be at risk of flooding as a result of climate change causing a catastrophic rise in sea levels. But the report by Jackson Consulting says higher defences could be built to avoid coastal sites being ruled out. The engineers
by Colin BrownRead more | Digg story A blueprint for a new generation of power stations was revealed yesterday as Tony Blair committed Britain to a nuclear component in energy supply. The Government announced a five-month consultation exercise on its plans for new nuclear plants by the private sector but a private consultants' report for the Department of Trade and Industry raised suspicions that the consultation is a sham. Critics called the consultation a "farce" and nuclear power would be a "dangerous, dirty white elephant". The report says new nuclear plants should be built predominantly in the South-east where the main demand for energy exists. Many of the plants are on the coast, and could be at risk of flooding as a result of climate change causing a catastrophic rise in sea levels. But the report by Jackson Consulting says higher defences could be built to avoid coastal sites being ruled out. The engineers
