Coal plants
December 23rd, 2008Coal plants
Coal Plants
Saving energy means saving money.Great River Energy coordinates a program that awarded $800,000 in grants for energy conservation projects at businesses and agriculture operations. (more...)
Fossil fuel power plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fossil fuel power plant burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum (oil) to produce electricity. Fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for ... (more...)
STOP THE COAL PLANT
Energy Watch: Ruling could disrupt plans for new coal plants nationwide (more...)
No New Coal Plants! - Coal Mining and Burning
Coal Mining and Burning. Coal is Back! With oil and gas prices rising due to depletion and electric demand continuing to increase, coal is becoming increasingly popular, causing ... (more...)
Coal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old coal power plants, especially "grandfathered" plants, are significantly less efficient and produce higher levels of waste heat. The emergence of the supercritical turbine concept ... (more...)
TVA ratepayers may be stuck with ash cleanup bill - KSDK
KNOXVILLE, TN (AP) -- The tab for a toxin-laden ash flood at a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee could reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and ratepayers for the nation's largest public utility will probably be stuck with the bill. The total ... (more...)
FutureGen coal plant in Mattoon may be revived - Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON?The massive economic stimulus bill taking shape in Congress could include a controversial billion-dollar boost for Illinois: the resurrection of an experimental coal power plant in Mattoon. Members of the Illinois delegation are pushing ... (more...)
Few regulations restrain tons of toxic coal sludge - Columbus Dispatch
A Tennessee Valley Authority worker surveys some of the damage from last month's huge coal-sludge spill. Ohio power plants store billions of gallons of toxic coal waste in ponds that environmental advocates say are mostly unregulated by state and ... (more...)
Coal ash sludge ponds in use at some Illinois power plants - Chicago Tribune
More than a dozen Illinois power plants store toxic coal ash in sludge ponds similar to the one that burst and spread contaminated muck over 300 acres of eastern Tennessee last month, according to a Tribune review of federal records. The sludge dumps ... (more...)
Green America Heralds Dynegy's Decision to Pull Plug on Five Coal ... - Earthtimes
Step Seen as "Outstanding Clean Energy Start to New Year," Marks Further Decline of Dirty Power in U.S.; Facing Intense Opposition, Energy Company Drops Five of Six Planned Projects WASHINGTON , Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The decision by U.S ... (more...)