Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state’s future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.
More than 15 proposals were filed with the Public Utilities Commission to [...]

When some of the industry’s top executives gather in Houston next week to discuss global energy challenges, finding new and more effective ways to produce oil and gas — as well as alternatives to fossil fuels — will dominate the discussion.
And, as the year progresses, expect to see industry leaders — including the chiefs [...]

With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of gas prices soaring again, talk of new and better ways to fuel cars, heat and cool homes, and power factories has never been greater.
What’s more, the conversation is emanating increasingly from a source that’s been surprisingly quiet until recently — the oil companies themselves.
When [...]

The long process of deciding whether to build a massive 2,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant in eastern Nevada is underway with the discussion of plans for the $3.8 billion facility.
The Ely Energy Center and its 250-mile transmission line would be fed by low-sulfur coal from Wyoming.
Coal trains leading to the plant could travel through Elko [...]

Formalizing a decision it announced in April, Alliant Energy Corp. has asked state regulators for permission to build a coal-fired power plant in Cassville, expanding the existing Nelson Dewey facility.
The proposed 300-megawatt plant would provide enough power for about 150,000 homes. If approved, Alliant hopes to begin construction of the $777 million plant by June [...]

The southwestern United States is especially vulnerable to global warming, but the region can help stop climate change by forgoing new coal-fired power plants in favor of conservation measures and renewable energy, according to a new study.
If more than a dozen new coal plants planned in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, [...]

Polaris Geothermal Inc., a renewable energy geothermal power producer, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Polaris Energy Nicaragua (”PENSA”), has entered into well drilling contracts for the drilling of production and re-injection wells to triple its generation capacity at the San Jacinto geothermal field in Nicaragua.
The first of the contracts was entered into with [...]

Environmental groups warned this week that plans for more coal-fired power plants in the Southwest will worsen the threat of global warming and undermine the states’ conservation efforts.
A report by Environmental Defense and Colorado-based Western Resource Advocates says the greenhouse gas emissions from the roughly dozen coal-fired plants planned or recently built will be the [...]

The new, cleaner coal technology “integrated gasification combined-cycle” - better known as coal gasification - holds promise as part of Wisconsin’s next generation of baseload power plants, a state report concludes.
The Department of Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission have been studying coal gasification, which is being pushed by environmentalists but has elicited a [...]

Greenhouse-gas emissions from 14 coal-fired power plants planned for the Southwest could undercut action to curb global warming, a new study says.
The study, by Environmental Defense and Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates, estimates that the plants will release each year a total of more than 70 million tons of carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas linked to [...]