India: NTPC’s captive coal output to grow three times in current fiscal
In its annual report in 2017, NTPC had said that it plans to secure around 33 per cent of its total coal requirement through captive coal blocks by 2030. NTPC's...
Australia: New coal-fired power plant planned near Kurri Kurri
An "ultra super critical" coal-fired power plant is planned to be developed near Kurri Kurri in the New South Wales Hunter region. Kaisun Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment firm signed...
A $150 Million Power Plant Was Just Built in Texas. Humanity Should Pray It Succeeds
An innovative new process could make Net Power the energy company of the future. In the Texas city of La Porte, about 30 miles outside of Houston, the power plant...
Greece: PPC receives six expressions of interest in coal-fired power plants
Greece’s Public Power Corp (PPC) on Friday received six expressions of interest in three coal-fired power plants it is selling under a post-bailout agreement with its international lenders. PPC, which...
India: NTPC’s captive coal output to nearly treble in 2018-19
NTPC's captive coal production is expected be 7.25 mn tonnes, up by a 170 pc, from 2.68 mn tonnes, a company official said. State-run power giant NTPC is expected to...
China: Massive coal industry park cleans up “scars”
The largest coal chemical park in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has launched a campaign to clean up over 120 small and disorderly coalfields. The Ningdong Energy and Chemical...
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $30 Million for Front-End Engineering Design Studies for Carbon Capture Systems
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) for front-end engineering design (FEED) studies...
Decision of the Dutch Government: closure of Hemweg-8 power plant by the end of 2019
Today, the Dutch Government announced that Vattenfall’s Hemweg-8 power plant in Amsterdam should stop using coal as a fuel for electricity production by the end of 2019. In part, this...
China switched 4.8 million homes to gas, electricity from coal in 2018
That was up from 4 million households that were switched in 2017. China expanded its coal-to-gas and coal-to-electricity projects to 35 cities in 2018 from 12 cities the previous year,...
Indonesia: Coal miner PTBA needs US$5.8b to finance downstream projects
State-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) has said it needs about US$5.8 billion to finance downstream projects in Muara Enim, South Sumatra, and Peranap, Riau, to convert solid coal...