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Environment
PM2.5: How going after utilities is misinformed
We are led to believe that PM2.5 particulate matter from coal-fired power plants will lead to 11,000 (or pick a number) premature deaths, as part of various permitting ...
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Environment
US carbon emissions likely to remain flat through 2050
“EIA’s recently released Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects that the U.S. electric power sector emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxide (CO2) will remain mostly flat ...
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Energy & Conference News
New source performance standard – 2019
They called it “111(b) Revisions to Advance Clean Energy Technology”, but in English it is an EPA-proposed elimination of the implied requirement to deploy CCS on coal plants. ...
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Environment
‘We’re Wasting Time!’
The U.S. Energy Information Agency recently published their estimate of the Power Sector CO2 emissions in 2017 at 1,744 MMmt, claiming a 28% reduction from the 2,416 MMmt ...
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Energy News
The future of gas turbines. Is there one?
No question, the gas turbine business is on its heels! The price of oil, combined with the move to renewables has been punishing on the industry and the ...
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Gas Turbines
Grid-scale UPS system
Most of us are familiar with the “Duck” and the need to manage its impact on the grid. As we make progress toward the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), ...
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Environment
EIA Annual Energy Outlook- January 2018
The EIA released their Annual Energy Outlook for 2018 in January. The forecast includes 10 different cases/scenarios, visible in the table generated using their browser tool. I have ...
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Renewables
Grid stabilization or enabling renewables?
The DOE’s recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), advertised as “Grid Stabilization”, was immediately demonized by the Renewables Community as a subsidy for Coal and Nuclear Power Generation. ...
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Environment
Why a 4.5°C raise by 2050 is an optimistic forecast
The EIA just released the International Energy Outlook for 2017 and declared that Carbon Intensity is projected to continue to fall in the Reference Case. I looked for ...
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Environment
The 2017 EIA Annual Energy Outlook –“5°C or 6°C?”
The 2017 Annual Energy Outlook, released in early January, provides a CO2 emissions forecast, which includes a base Reference Case along with side cases that examine the forecast ...
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