Power

According to the US Energy Information Administration, Germany’s renewables electricity generation has grown in 2015, but coal is still dominant.

A proposed bill regulating coal ash disposal sites in North Carolina has been welcomed by Duke Energy but criticised by others as “bailing out” the utility.

According to the US EIA, trends in CO2 emissions from electricity generation through 2040 depend significantly on whether or not the Clean Power Plan is implemented.

State fire fighters attended a small fire in a raw coal bunker at the Hazelwood lignite mine in Victoria.

Engie’s Hazelwood power plant and lignite mine in Victoria might be closed or sold, according to CEO.

The US coal industry faces two decades of contraction, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Reference Case forecast in the Annual Energy Outlook 2016.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has commissioned the first 800 MW supercritical thermal unit in Kanataka, India.

A new refined coal (RC) facility has been leased to an existing RC investor for installation at a power plant burning 5.8 million tpy of coal.

Peabody Energy completes the sale of its interest in Prairie State Energy Campus.

Emerson’s vibration analyser is now certified for use in explosive dust environments.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd commissions 250 MW thermal unit at Parli Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra, India.

Emerson helps Longview’s power plant increase reliability and energy output as well as become one of the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired units in the US.

Marubeni, Komipo, Samtan, and IMEI agree to develop the Cirebon 3 coal-fired power plant project in Indonesia.

According to the EIA, CO2 emissions from US electricity generation totalled 1.925 million t in 2015 – the lowest since 1993, as a result of shifting electricity generation away from coal to renewables and gas.

BHEL wins order from NSPCL for setting up thermal power project in Odisha, India.