All Posts Tagged With: "coal-fired plants"

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Viewpoint: The Billion Dollar Block of Concrete

The insider joke is that utilities always want to build the next “billion dollar block of concrete” — not for the power, but because it can be added to their “rate base” and thus earn these returns. Why is their return on capital far higher than you or I can make on a secure investment?

13Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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IGCC Technology in a Reduced Carbon World — GE Energy Makes Its Case

This plant could become a model for new power generating facilities worldwide and help position the United States as a leader in low carbon power generation,” said Jonathan Briggs, regional director of the Americas for Hydrogen Energy.

17Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Westmoreland Coal’s Losses Grow

The Colorado Springs-based energy company reported its losses for the quarter jumped to $12.4 million from $3.49 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue fell 20.5 percent to $112.4 million during the same period.

10Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon Capture Quest Continues

While there remains much debate about the wisdom of pouring funds into removing CO2 from existing and future coal plants, rather than devoting funds to renewable, inherently clean sources of energy like wind and solar, any realistic assessment of the electricity needs of the next half-century concludes that coal will continue to be a major source of power.

5Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Will Colorado Get a Nuclear Plant?

Executives from an independent nuclear power plant developer visited the state last week to meet with a number of key county and state leaders to determine support for a combination nuclear and solar power plant in Pueblo County.

30Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Groundswell Demands Change on Energy Policy

These stories might be seen as the wacky protests of a fringe of enviro-hippies, except that major corporations including Nike, Levi Strauss & Co., Starbucks Corp. and utilities like PG&E Corp. are getting in on the act. PG&E last week became the second utility to recently leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the body’s policy of denying climate change caused by man-made sources of carbon.

28Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal ‘Elephant’ Stalks Policy Debate

What they didn’t talk about at the Fort Collins forum, at least according to news accounts, was eliminating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. That’s a big omission: no amount of renewable-energy subsidies, replacement of gas-guzzlers with hybrid vehicles, or R&D on solar power technology is going to mitigate global climate change unless we do something about coal plants, existing and future.

31Aug2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Lawsuit Challenges Energy Corridors Plan

The lawsuit contends the designation of the corridors ignored any alternatives that may favor the development of renewable energy and accordingly align with and “perpetuate the use of coal-fired plants throughout the West.” As a result, the corridors “leave stranded and underserved” many areas with renewable energy resources.

9Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Lawsuit Targets Xcel’s Commanche
Generating Station

In response, the utility and state regulators say the company’s permit for the Pueblo facility includes limits on mercury emissions, and that equipment being installed will significantly reduce mercury pollution and monitor emissions.

6Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ion Engineering in Deal to License
Carbon Capture Technology

The startup company accelerates development of ionic liquid solutions to control greenhouse emissions with licensing agreement with the University of Colorado.

30Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Electric Co-ops May be Legally Obligated to Divulge Coal Risks Says Energy Attorney

Two state co-ops — the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) on the Front Range and Holy Cross Energy on the Western Slope — invested $366 million and $100 million respectively in Xcel Energy’s new Comanche 3 coal-fired plant near Pueblo. Both co-ops have publicly stated they did so to procure a cheap, stable base load.

3Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Reports Major Increase in Renewables Use

According to its 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report, the state’s dominant power provider has reduced emissions and increased the amount of power it gets from renewable energy sources.

27May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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IREA’s Lewandowski: Time to Retire

The General Manager of the Intermountain Rural Electric Association seems to operate IREA as his personal fiefdom and a vehicle for his controversial views on energy policy.

22Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon is a Four-Letter Word:
A Treatise to Fuel the Flame (and by doing so, regrettably, discharge some CO2)

Here’s where the science, in some people’s minds, falters. In the big scheme of things, can a case sans reasonable doubt be made that fossil fueled electric generating plants are causing the Wilkins ice shelf to break off and float away? After all, 40% of 3.2% is just 1.3%.

9Apr2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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