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Costs of closing, cleaning toxic coal ash pits grows clearer
2016-02-07 17:34:26| Energy - Topix.net
Two years after one of the worst coal ash spills in U.S. history, the country's largest electricity company is digging up and hauling away the residue. The 2014 disaster polluted a river that runs through North Carolina and Virginia and led legislators to order Duke Energy Corp. to close all 32 of its coal ash pits in North Carolina by 2029.
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VJIKKS ENGG POWER Wins Another Major Tender on Cathodic Protection Retrofitting, from Malaysias TNB Manjung Coal Fired Power Plant
2016-02-02 12:27:00| Power Technology
VJIKKS ENGG POWER (M) SDN BHD, a growing one stop engineering solutions provider, has successfully won another major tender from Malaysia's TNB (a government linked utility company).
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India coal plant developer switches to solar for site in Punjab
2016-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A prominent developer of coal-fired power plants in India is seeking to switch to solar for an 800-acre (324-hectare) site in Punjab it had earmarked for another thermal plant, saying the economics of photovoltaics are more attractive. RattanIndia Power Ltd. which has 1.6 gigawatts of thermal capacity in central India, asked government permission to install solar panels at the site in Punjab instead of the coal plant it was planning, said Rajiv Rattan, chairman of RattanIndia Group. In the...
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Copenhagen Set to Divest Funds Out of Coal, Oil and Gas Holdings
2016-01-29 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The city of Copenhagen is set to become the latest recruit to the unstoppable divestment movement, with its plan to sell off the coal, oil and gas assets of its 6.9 billion Krone (EUR1.29 bn) investment fund. The Danish capital will join a movement worth more than $3.4 trillion worldwide, following Norways capital Oslo and non-European cities such as Newcastle, Australia, as well as more than 500 institutions, universities, banks, companies and thousands of people, who have already pulled their...
Coal slides to new low as source of electricity
2016-01-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The amount of electricity generated using coal in the U.S. slid to its lowest level since at least 1970 in November, according to data released this week by the Energy Information Administration. Coal-fired power plants generated 29 percent of the U.S. electric power supply in November, dropping from nearly 35 percent in July and 39 percent for all of 2014. The trend continues coal's long slide away from national dominance as the primary source of electricity in the United States, EIA analyst...
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