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JULY 4, 2012

million tonnes per annum (MTPA) production train for its Australia Pacific LNG coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Queensland, Australia. From this point we are committed to the development and construction of all infrastructure and facilities to ensure the first delivery of LNG in 2015.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Total subsidies for renewable energy stood at $66 billion in 2010 (a 10% increase from the year before); the total value of global fossil fuel subsidies is estimated at between $775 billion and more than $1 trillion in 2012, Two thirds of the renewable energy subsidies went to renewable electricity resources and the remaining third to biofuels.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Global GHG emissions continue to be dominated by fossil carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, which however show a slowdown trend since 2012, and were stalled for the third year in a row in 2016. However, the data until 2012 shows a steady increase in global GHG emissions, with an overall increase of 91% from 1970 to 2012.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Environment Canada released the text of the proposed regulations to reduce emissions from the coal-fired electricity sector. The proposed Regulations will apply a performance standard to new coal-fired electricity generation units and those coal-fired units that have reached the end of their economic life.

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JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Solar accounted for 32% of US new generating capacity in 2014, beating out both wind energy and coal for the second year in a row. GTM Research expects 2015 to be a bounce-back year for the commercial segment, highlighted by a resurgence in California. GTM Research forecasts the US PV market to grow 31% in 2015.

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MAY 20, 2014

from 2012, down to an average 2.22 tonnes in 2012. tonnes in 2012. MW in 2012, on a target of 125 MW by 2020. One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. In 2013, GM reduced the energy-intensity per vehicle manufactured 3.5%

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APRIL 5, 2016

In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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APRIL 11, 2017

This level is 120,000 b/d (3.2%) higher than last summer’s consumption and closer to levels from summer 2015. High oil and coal production also could contribute to diesel consumption growth, EIA notes. High oil and coal production also could contribute to diesel consumption growth, EIA notes. gallon (gal), compared with $2.23/gal

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AUGUST 14, 2015

China began development of a national Air Reporting System in 2012; the system includes 945 sites in 190 cities that report hourly via the Internet. Low SO 2 fluxes may indicate cities that benefit from lower coal usage or better smokestack pollution controls. Rohde and Muller. Click to enlarge. Rohde, Richard A.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

The US is and has been in the midst of an epochal transition from coal-fired electricity to natural gas and renewables, a switch that will take many more years to play out. Nine of the ten highest power burn days on record took place last month, with the other one occurring in July 2015. Average consumption of 36.1

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The program, which is scheduled to start in 2012, will affect about 63 large stationary sources that emit at least 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants, and oil and gas operations. Those sources include electric generators and the largest emission sources in the oil and gas sector.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The projects—led by FuelCell Energy, in partnership with VersaPower Systems, and Siemens Energy—have successfully demonstrated solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) designed for aggregation and use in coal-fueled central power generation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

These key goals are to develop hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for: Early markets such as stationary power (primary and backup), lift trucks, and portable power—in the 2010 to 2012 timeframe; Mid-term markets such as residential CHP systems, auxiliary power units, fleets and buses—in the 2012 to 2015 timeframe; and.

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MAY 18, 2015

Geoscience Australia estimated total proved plus probable commercial reserves at 132 Tcf (99 Tcf of traditional natural gas and 33 Tcf of coal bed methane-CBM) as of 2012. Most of the traditional gas resources (about 92%) are located in the North West Shelf (NWS) offshore in the Carnarvon, Browse, and Bonaparte basins.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The US has 1,750 MW of PV planned for 2011 and currently employs 100,000 people, more than coal mining or steel manufacturing. Resources. [

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. F of warming.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The plans for development and operation of the Ichthys project have been approved by Australian authorities, and construction will commence in the second quarter of 2012. interest alongside Santos, Petronas and Kogas in the GLNG Coal Seam Gas to LNG project launched in early 2011. First LNG will be delivered in 2015.

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MAY 29, 2012

Eighty percent of those emissions came from coal, making China the consumer of about half the world’s coal. China recently announced it will be testing a pilot cap-and-trade program in select major cities in 2013, and plan to make the program national by 2015. Everyone will have to do it, including the US. ”. 2012.04.007.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Power plants accounted for 32% (2,064 million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent) of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2012, according to the EPA. The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). billion kWh).

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MARCH 6, 2017

In 2015, 5.9 WHO estimated in 2012 that 26% of childhood deaths and 25% of the total disease burden in children under five could be prevented through the reduction of environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, sanitation and inadequate hygiene or chemicals. million children under age five died.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Even with maximally feasible reductions phased in from 2015 to 2035, global mean temperatures in 2050 would be reduced by 0.16 °C, with a range of 0.04–0.35 International leaders took note and formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in 2012.

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JULY 10, 2011

For the first three years, the carbon price will be fixed, before moving to an emissions trading scheme in 2015. In the fixed price stage, starting on 1 July 2012, the carbon price will start at A$23 (US$24.75) a tonne, rising at 2.5% From 1 July 2015, the carbon price will be set by the market. a year in real terms.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Other AEO2013 Reference case highlights include: The Brent spot crude oil price declines from $111 per barrel (in 2011 dollars) in 2011 to $96 per barrel in 2015. After 2015, the Brent price increases, reaching $163 per barrel in 2040, as growing demand leads to the development of more costly resources.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Dry bulk terminals are expected to handle over 100 million tons of materials in 2011, including products like coal. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Only oilsands pipeline serving the West Coast. and Washington state.

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APRIL 5, 2011

billion) in total, Alstom has signed a power plant contract worth the equivalent of more than €650 million (US$923 million) with Tenaga Janamanjung Sdn Bhd to provide key power generation equipment to South East Asia’s first 1000 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant Manjung, Malaysia. In a project worth about €1 billion (US$1.4

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. If by 2015, 2.5

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Annual GHG emissions from a large refinery are comparable to the emissions of a typical 500 MW coal-fired power plant. Between 2008 and 2015, it is estimated that more than $15 billion will be spent to add processing capacity specifically for heavy crude blends in US refineries. By 2010 this fraction had increased to 15%.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Other liquids refer to natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels (including biomass-to-liquids [BTL]), gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), kerogen (i.e., Other IEO2014 highlights include: Since July 2012, North Sea Brent crude oil spot prices have generally remained in the range of $100 to $115 (nominal dollars) per barrel.

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APRIL 6, 2014

billion cubic meters by the end of 2014 and 5 billion cubic meters by 2015—ten-fold the previous plan. With its lower carbon emission, shale gas is a cleaner energy that has strategic significance to coal-consuming China. The Fuling shale gas field in Chongqing has reserves of 2.1 trillion cubic meters. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 31, 2013

Significant capacity expansion is targeted for Tamar for 2015. Demand for natural gas in Israel is expected to grow strongly, notes Noble Energy, with a short-term CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 15% from 2012 – 2017. Phase 1 onshore capacity is 985 MMcf/day; future expansion phases are to increase the capacity to 1.5

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MAY 21, 2022

This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Lighthouse Dev in 2012. Can the same basic physics be harnessed to replace wires today? David Schneider.

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APRIL 4, 2021

They had created two new natural gas units to replace the older coal-fired units. In 2015, the two fastest cars were both electric, and in 2018, EVs completely dominated the race. Protecting the legacy McNeil, who has been the chapter’s very prolific newsletter editor since 2012, has made sure to do his part to enshrine EV history.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid.

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JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The cap-and-trade program will begin regulating emissions in January 2012.

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