COAL POWER Direct

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   February 1, 2023 2022 Set a Global Record for Coal Generation The recent shake-up in natural gas markets and their ensuing impact on energy security, and geopolitical tension, dramatically altered the trajectory of global coal-fired generation, sending it soaring to Group Says […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed barring six coal-fired power plants in various states—a combined 11 GW—from disposing coal ash into unlined surface impoundments. The agency, however, also proposed to provide disposal extensions if the coal plants are needed to maintain grid reliability. The EPA’s proposed determinations, issued on Jan. 25, fall under its […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   January 4, 2023 China Breaks Ground on Massive 16-GW Solar, Wind, Coal Project A massive, multibillion-dollar renewable and fossil-fuel energy project is underway in China. The installation, being built by China Three Gorges (CTG), includes wind, solar, energy storage and coal-fired power […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 7, 2022 NERC Warns of Tight Generation Resources, Fuel Supply Issues This Winter Power shortfalls could be rife over the next three months across a large portion of the North American bulk power system (BPS), particularly during extreme and prolonged cold […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 5, 2022 Carbon Capture Begins at India’s Largest Coal Power Plant India’s largest coal-fired power plant, NTPC’s 4.8-GW Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station, has begun capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from plant flue gas as part of a foundational project to explore… […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 7, 2022 California Declares Stage 3 Emergency Alert, Warns Rotating Outages Possible California’s grid operator issued a Stage 3 energy emergency alert (EEA) at 5:17 p.m. PST on Sept. 6, warning it would order rotating power outages to lower soaring power […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   August 3, 2022 Shanghaimiao Part of China’s Push for More Efficient Coal Plant Designs China’s rapid buildout of new power plants, needed to satisfy the country’s increasing demand for electricity, includes several gigawatts of coal-fired generation. The first 1-GW unit of an […]

Georgia Power will harvest 9 million tons of coal ash landfilled at its 3.4-GW Plant Bowen station in Bartow County, Georgia, and beneficially use it in concrete for major regional construction projects. The project, announced on June 29, will be the “ single largest beneficial use project of its kind in the U.S., and the largest […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   July 6, 2022 Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact […]