In a major decision aimed at preserving the air quality benefits of the program, a federal court on December 23 modified its July 11 decision to throw out the Environmental…
Power
Monthly Issue | January 30, 2009
The new U.S. president will have a new set of priorities and regulatory policies that will affect the production and generation of electricity. The specifics of the new administration’s energy…
Public-private partnerships are a key to preventing a chill from settling over the green ambitions of the newly capital-strapped state and municipal public sectors. The past decade has seen an…
Dallman Unit 4 is under construction (Figure 1) by the City Water, Light and Power (CWLP) utility of the City of Springfield, Ill. The 200-MW Unit 4 will fire pulverized…
Reducing CO2 emissions in the coming decades, without suffocating economic growth, is a priority of the industrialized world in general and power generators in particular. Each year, measurements show an…
Managing the coal-combustion process requires rapid and accurate measurements of key combustion reactants and products. For many processes, the focus is on increasing efficiency by controlling the chemistry and monitoring…
Since the introduction of the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), coal-fired power plants in the U.S. have been required to reduce undesirable emissions, particularly those of sulfur dioxide (SO2). Title…
One of the key campaign promises made by our new president was that his administration would create five million new “green” jobs by spending $150 billion dollars over the next…