One of our children’s’ favorite movies a decade ago was Galaxy Quest, a spoof of Star Trek. In it, Tim Allen, cast as a Captain Kirk wannabe, leads the crew…
Power
Monthly Issue | May 29, 2009
In a major change to the industry’s position on federal regulation of coal combustion waste and waste impoundments, a senior electric utility official recently told Congress that utilities “need to…
Britain is the first country to set legally binding carbon reduction targets, requiring that greenhouse gas emissions be cut 22% below 1990 levels by 2012, 28% below the 1990 benchmark…
To the casual observer, it might seem logical to assume that coal-burning electric utilities would be opposed to regulating greenhouse gas emissions. But although we are often conveniently cast as…
In a move cheered by Ohio officials, FirstEnergy Corp. has announced plans to repower Units 4 and 5 of its R.E. Burger coal-fired power plant to burn biomass to produce…
In many countries, plants have to fulfill specific requirements of the electrical grid (such as frequency control, dispatch control, automatic generation control (AGC), and so on) and are paid accordingly,…
An important use of fly ash from coal-fired power plants is as a replacement for cement in concrete. Substituting 1 ton of fly ash for 1 ton of Portland cement…
China has experienced tremendous growth in electricity demand over the past two decades. Coal-fired plant construction has exploded in the country to meet its seemingly insatiable appetite for electricity. Because…