The big buzz still echoing through world of coal-fired generation is the move by two big-bucks private equity investors to take TXU Corp. off the public market, including scuttling announced…
Environmental
Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
The January call for a national policy on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by a coalition that includes some of America's largest companies and electric utilities—GE, Alcoa, Dupont, Duke, FPL, and…
China to buy four AP1000 reactors In a deal brokered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), China is ordering four Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors for plants to be constructed…
Optimizing combustion in pulverized coal (PC)-fired boilers today is more important today than ever. It is well known that the average American PC plant is over 30 years old and…
Although the attention that SO3 has received has been focused on its visible emissions, the presence of SO3 also creates some serious operations and maintenance problems for back-end plant equipment,…
In 1971, with passage of the Power Plant Siting Act, Maryland established the Power Plant Research Project (PPRP) and made the Department of Natural Resources responsible for its administration. The…
In May 2006, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy sponsored a two-session Environmental Controls Conference (ECC 2006) in Pittsburgh,…
When Charles Dickens began A Tale of Two Cities with, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," he was referring to the French Revolution of…
Renewables require rethinking just about everything Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are here to stay, with nearly half of U.S. states having adopted some measure to push regulated utilities to use…
What's in a name? Plenty, if the word is "renewable." Intuitively, most people outside the energy industry consider hydroelectric power "renewable." The dictionary defines the word as follows: "capable…