Energy provider Southern Co. said Monday construction has begun on what it called an efficient, low-emission coal facility which will help the company meet increased power demand.
The facility, at the Stanton Energy Center in Orange County, Fla., will turn coal into synthetic gas for generating electricity, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides [...]
TXU says it plans to build two coal-fired power plants in Texas using a cleaner-burning technology the company previously tried to discredit.
In an announcement Friday, TXU and the two investors behind the proposed $45 billion buyout of the company announced last month said they will issue a request for proposals from companies offering coal gasification [...]
GE’s energy finance unit will take a 20 percent stake in a power plant project using coal gasification, a sign that the cleaner-burning technology is attracting the attention of investors with deep pockets.
The 630-megawatt Cash Creek project in Henderson County, Ky., will be one of the largest and most advanced clean coal projects of its [...]
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, announced today that it has entered into a long-term contract to sell 100% of the ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel from its planned coal-to-liquids (CTL) facility in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to Sinclair Oil Corporation, which will market the fuel in the Rocky Mountain region.
The [...]
Sinclair Oil Corp. has entered a long-term contract to market “ultra-low-sulfur” diesel fuel derived from a coal-to-liquids plant still in the planning stages in Wyoming.
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, plans to build a coal-to-liquids processing facility in Carbon County with an output capacity of 13,000 barrels per [...]
Paul Rolke, a 300-pound Robertson County man, was so outraged by plans to build a pulverized coal power plant within sight of his ranch that he went on a hunger strike last year, drinking little more than water for more than a week.
“This technology isn’t so last century,” said Rolke, who worries about pollution from [...]
Coal is experiencing a mini-boom as an energy source for generating electricity, thanks to soaring energy demand, abundant supplies and volatile natural-gas prices.
Utilities companies have concentrated on building cleaner-burning natural-gas power plants for the past two decades. Now, 153 new coalburning power plants are under way or being proposed nationwide, according to the National Energy [...]
Dan Fessler, principal of Clear Energy Solutions LLC, says he is the worst of all possible people to suggest what Wyoming should do with its coal industry. He’s a lawyer.
But Fessler is also the son of a Torrington newspaper publisher, and a man who had a lengthy career in international energy law and was president [...]
Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Monday announced Montana will have one of the nation’s first coal-to-liquid fuel facilities, a $1.3 billion project that several companies have agreed to build in the state’s midsection.
DKRW Advanced Fuels, Arch Minerals and Bull Mountain Cos. plan to develop the project at the Bull Mountain mine 14 miles south of Roundup, [...]
The three Wyoming members of Congress joined forces to request that the Treasury Department approve an application giving a company $350 million in investment tax credits to build the planned Medicine Bow Fuel and Power coal-to-liquids facility.
Republican Sens. Craig Thomas and Mike Enzi and Rep. Barbara Cubin sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [...]
