The Obama administration on Nov. 8 posted a notice on the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website that indicates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has filed a…
Power
Monthly Issue | December 1, 2011
After three years of development, dozens of public workshops, and hundreds of meetings with stakeholders, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) on Oct. 20 adopted a final rule to cap…
ICF International, a consultancy group that earlier this year predicted 68 GW of coal-fired power plants could retire by 2030 as a result of finalized and proposed regulations from the…
Our recent National Center for Atmospheric Research study underscores the complex and sometimes conflicting ways in which fossil fuel burning affects Earth's climate. While coal use causes warming through emission…
Well before mid-century, according to a new study by Berkeley Lab's China Energy Group, China's energy use will level off, even as its population edges past 1.4 billion. The report,…
The Rovinari Power Station, located in Romania and owned by Termoelectrica, has four 330-MW coal-fired boilers that were constructed between 1976 and 1979 (Figure 1). The units fire a local…
Pulverizers prepare raw fuel for burning by grinding it to a desired fineness and mixing it with the just the right amount of air before sending the mixture to boiler…
The utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule scheduled to take effect in December 2011 will have a three-year timetable for compliance, with a possible one-year extension. A fifth year…
The Jim Bridger Plant, located in Rock Springs, Wyo., is the largest coal-fired plant operated by PacifiCorp Energy. The plant consists of four 560-MW units; all have corner-fired Combustion Engineering…