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NEWS & OPINION
USA: Struggling Coal Plants May Get A Lifeline In New Senate Bill
A Senate bill introduced Monday would expand a federal loan program to cover coal plants that meet efficiency and emissions standards. Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana introduced the Reinvigorating...
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South Africa: Eskom to buy ‘emergency’ coal, splurge on diesel as load-shedding risk returns
South Africa’s power utility Eskom reports that it has received approval from the National Treasury for the “urgent procurement” of four-million tons of emergency coal to help address serious stock...
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UK’s month-ahead coal-fired margins hit fresh high of 2018
UK's month-ahead coal-fired profit margins hit fresh 2018 highs, making 35% efficient coal plants more profitable to run than 50% efficient gas-fired power stations, data from S&P Global Platts shows....
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Africa and the Arab world are key to a clean-coal alliance
Egypt, Oman, Iran, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates all have clean-coal plants on the drawing board or under way. Sharing technology on clean coal, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marek...
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Why ‘Clean Coal’ Is Being Embraced and Questioned
The words “clean coal” are repeated frequently by industry executives and politicians, notably U.S. President Donald Trump. Often used to defuse concerns about greenhouse gas pollution, the moniker is meant...
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Fortum eNext to provide environmental performance technology to Plzeň power plant in Czech Republic
Fortum eNext has been selected to carry out a boiler refurbishment project at Plzeň, power plant in Czech Republic. The contract with Plzeňská Energetika a.s. for renewal of the existing...
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News from the recent Power Plant Concepts meeting with the VGB Technical Group
A memorandum of understanding between IEA Clean Coal Centre and VGB allows us to attend the English speaking VGB Technical Group…
Update from the 35th Pittsburgh Coal Conference
The 35th Pittsburgh Coal Conference took place in Xuzhou, China from 15-18 October 2018. The conference was co-hosted by China University of Mining Technology (CUMT) and the University of Pittsburgh....
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Visiting the Pingshan Phase 2 power plant in Anhui, China
Lead by Mr Feng Weizhong, the engineers at Waigaoqiao 3 coal-fired power plant have been working hard continuously on a series of innovative ‘5E technologies’…
Oil and Gas industry relies on the technology that the coal sector is also developing?
Oil and gas use can be consistent with the Paris Accord goals, according to Bob Dudley, delivering BP’s keynote speech at the Oil&Money 2018 conference [1]. Among a number of...
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WORKSHOP ON COFIRING BIOMASS WITH COAL
Took place in Copenhagen, Denmark
11 – 13 September 2018