Power

Fluor awarded a five year maintenance alliance contract for power plants in Georgia and Alabama in the US.

Great River Energy plans to end operations at Stanton Station coal plant in North Dakota, US.

GE is to retrofit three steam turbine-generators at the Yatagan coal-fired power plant in Turkey, helping increase the plant’s output to about 228 MW.

Eight years after the worst coal ash spill in US history, the Tennessee Valley Authority is leading a revolution in safe coal ash storage.

UK solar generation overtook that from coal for the first time in May 2016.

The owners of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant, in Montana, reached a proposed settlement in the Colstrip environmental litigation, pending court approval.

EIA has released preliminary data from its annual survey of electric generators, which provides information on pollution control equipment at electric power plants.

Eskom has called on Anglo American to reduce the cost of coal from its New Denmark coal mine in South Africa.

Operations continue as usual at the Callide C coal-fired power plant, despite co-owner IG Power being placed into receivership.

Leading scientists have highlighted that Paris Agreement climate goals require massive deployment of CCS post 2030 and the CEO of the Global CCS Institute has indicated that strong supportive policies are needed to achieve this.

Australian energy company, CS Energy, has completed a major overhaul at its Kogan Creek coal-fired power plant.

High-efficiency low-emission technology and carbon capture and storage are required if the continued use of coal is to meet global climate change targets.

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have secured funding for a four-year project to study the ability of complex rock strata beneath the North Sea to trap carbon dioxide emissions.

With fresh water becoming scarcer, alternative sources of water for use in coal-fired power plants are becoming increasingly relevant.

Southern Company has defended its Kemper IGCC plant after criticism of the project appeared in the New York Times.