Clean Coal Technologies
Bulgaria uses presidency to call for relaxation of coal rules
Bulgaria, currently holding the floating EU presidency, has appealed to Brussels to relax the rules around using coal-fired power generation.
Biomass
UK confirms coal-fired power closure plan
The UK government is to close coal-fired power plants not equipped with carbon capture and storage technology by October 2025, according to a statement by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Clean Coal Technologies
Gas power still holds sway in the UK but renewables climb
Windy conditions saw renewable power generation hit record levels in 2017, as the effects of the Capacity Mechanism reduced price volatility in the second half of the year. These are the key findings from a new report by energy market monitoring firm EnAppSys.
Asia
Chinese firms to build Bangladesh clean coal plant
A consortium of Chinese companies is building a clean coal power plant in Bangladesh.
Clean Coal Technologies
Success of low carbon technologies expounded at POWER-GEN
The head of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Paul Browning, heralded an unstoppable drive towards the use of low carbon technologies, while unveiling the company’s first 65 per cent efficient combined-cycle gas-fired power plant, during a speech at the POWER-GEN conference in Las Vegas.
Clean Coal Technologies
CFB in Turkey: The right timing for the right technology
Circulating fluidized bed combustion technology offers a way to reliably and cleanly convert Turkey's low quality lignite into power, argue Bob Giglio and Boguslaw Krzton
Africa
Why fuel flexible CFBs are the future
Only circulating fluidized bed combustion technology satisfies all of the often contradictory design requirements of modern solid fuel plants, writes Robert Giglio
Biomass
UK announces £557m renewable energy funding wave
The UK’s energy minister Richard Harrington has confirmed that up to £557 million will be made available for less established renewable electricity projects in a Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction in Spring 2019.
Biomass
UK CCS produces cost-benefit report
The UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) has welcomed the launch of the CCS Study “Clean Air, Clean Industry, Clean Growth: How Carbon Capture Will Boost the UK Economy”.
Clean Coal Technologies
UK prime minister vows leadership in battery and EV technology
British Prime Minister Theresa May has told the ruling-Conservative Party conference that the government intends to continue backing battery and electric vehicle technology.
