Power

CO2 Solutions RPB carbon capture technology is to be tested at the University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Centre in the largest tests of the technology so far.

A recent IEA report on the status of investment in the global energy industry was a missed opportunity to call for investment in cleaner coal technologies.

American Electric Power has sold four power plants, including a coal-fired power, to private equity firms, Blackstone and Arclight Capital Partners.

The Global CCS Institute applauds Shell’s Quest CCS project reaching a significant one year milestone.

With the backing of its Chinese partners, Oracle Coalfields continues to make progress towards financial close on its Thar coal support.

Sinohydro has completed the commercial and technical feasibility study for Intra Energy’s Ngaka minemouth power plant in Tanzania.

The World Coal Association has welcomed the Oxburgh report into carbon capture and storage in the UK.

As Japan's electricity mix shifted toward the increased use of coal and natural gas after the Fukushima accident, Japan became more reliant on imported coal and LNG for electricity generation.

The amount of planned coal-fired generation development has fallen 14% this year.

Medupi’s Unit 5 was synchronised to the national power grid on 8 September, becoming the second of the power station’s six units to come on stream.

Intercem has supplied a hot gas system for a coal mill at a cement plant in Lebanon.

Hollysys Automation Technologies awarded contract to provide its proprietary distributed control system for 2 x 1000 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power generating units.

A report from CoBank finds that the US coal industry will decrease further in the next few years with more than 20% of the nation’s current coal production potentially being shuttered.

Africa Finance Corp. joins Ncondezi Energy’s existing US$1.32 million loan facility announced in May 2016 and has committed an additional US$3 million to the shareholder loan facility in two tranches.

Foresight Energy has completed an out-of-court restructuring of over US$1.4 billion in indebtedness pursuant to the terms of Transaction Support Agreements previously executed.