The strike by workers protesting the Centre’s decision to disinvest 10 per cent equity in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation entered its second day today, paralysing lignite mining and power generation here.
With supply of electricity from the NLC to the Tamil Nadu grid almost nil since last night, many rural areas were affected by power cuts. [...]
Violent thunderstorms dampened the spirits of many Bulgarians hoping to greet the first sunrays in the tradition of July Morning.
Throughout the night many other Bulgarian towns were submerged and eighteen men were blocked underground in a mine in Vidin at the Danube.
At some places large hails accompanied the storm and areas in the capital awoke [...]
Frustrating Wyoming energy officials, Basin Electric Power Cooperative announced Friday it will team up with GE Energy and Bechtel Power to consider developing a coal gasification power plant in South Dakota.
North Dakota-based Basin Electric is in the permitting process for its 385-megawatt Dry Fork Station — a traditional pulverized coal power plant to be located [...]
China, the world’s biggest energy user after the U.S., raised power prices for households and companies today to counter rising coal costs that are eroding earnings at the nation’s electricity generators.
Prices increased by an average of 0.025 yuan per kilowatt-hour, the National Development and Reform Commission, the nation’s top economic planner, said in a statement [...]
A draft environmental impact statement has been released on a planned coal-fired power plant near here, with the preferred alternative being the one proposed by the co-op that wants to build it.
Anne Hedges, program director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, criticized the Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to analyze only three alternatives — including [...]
South Korea has pledged $10 million to help build and operate the world’s first zero-emissions coal-fired power plant. Once operational, this plant will remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while producing electricity and hydrogen, making it the environmentally cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world.
The $1 billion FutureGen initiative is a [...]
Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he supports the Highwood Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant proposed for east of Great Falls.
“I’m supporting the Highwood project,” Schweitzer told the Great Falls Tribune’s editorial board Friday. “It’ll be one of the cleanest coal plants in the country.”
The plant does not use a technology known as Integrated Gasification Combined [...]
PT Medco Energi Internasional, Indonesia’s largest publicly traded oil company, may build a geothermal power plant in North Sumatra for state utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara after the winning bidder pulled out.
PLN named Medco-led group to replace PT Geo Dipa Energi, picked last year as the preferred bidder to build the Sarulla plant, Djuanda Nugraha [...]
Colorado’s state geologist said that the state rests upon a vast energy reserve, but this time he’s not talking about coal, oil or natural gas.
Vince Matthews, who also heads the Colorado Geological Survey, attended a conference in September where Nevada’s efforts to develop its geothermal resources were outlined “and I thought, ‘Gee, we’ve got that. [...]
A Gilbert-based startup company that is developing clean-coal technologies is applying for a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help fund its research and development efforts.
Diversified Energy Corp., 2020 W. Guadalupe Road, is seeking $1.25 million from DOE’s National Energy Technology Lab to develop a process to convert coal to hydrogen, which could serve [...]
