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Ameren Energy Resources has set a fresh challenge for the FutureGen clean coal project by pulling out of the initiative, which has received $1bn in government funding. A unit at Ameren's Meredosia power plant …
Xstrata PLC, (LSE: XTA, SIX: XTAN) the world's largest thermal-coal exporter by volume, may sell part of its proposed six billion Australian dollar (US$6.44bn) Wandoan project in Australia, which aims to be a key supplier to Asian power generators.
… Department of Energy (DOE) inaccurately estimated the costs for its FutureGen project, and that this flagship clean coal project should not have been shelved. The original $1bn FutureGen proposal, announced by former President Bush in 2003 …
Canadian city favours gas turbines over clean coal A plan to build a 300 MW clean coal project to meet Saskatchewan’s power demand until 2014 by has foundered. The Canadian city will instead use gas turbines, renewables …
… Mississippi Power claims that the Kemper County power station, which is due to be operational in 2014, will be a “clean coal ” project because it will be able to capture and sequester 60 per cent of the CO 2 emitted plus most other harmful emissions …
… in the Middle East you are going to get at least four gas turbine suppliers interested. However, if you are doing a coal project anywhere you will have a challenge finding people with available steam turbines to meet the schedule. One of the reasons …
… Mozambique: Brazilian mining company Vale will start building a 1800 MW thermal power station at its $1.3bn Moatize coal project in northern Mozambique in March 2010. The plant is due to be operational in December 2012. Oman: Larsen & Toubro …
… from the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) programme. The Mustang clean coal project will receive $19.7m to help develop a multi-pollutant control process for sulphur dioxide (SO2), sulphur trioxide …
… measure are clean coal and renewables - two other winners in the bill. The government had already committed to a clean coal project in FutureGen, a zero-emissions coal fired power plant that produces hydrogen and electricity while using carbon dioxide …
… they would instead build a traditional natural gas fired plant. The $600 million Stanton IGCC plant was the fourth coal project in Florida to be dropped in a year, but the first that was already under construction. Public aversion to coal fired …
