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West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on a former coal mining site

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West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on the site of the 5,800-acre Hobet Mine, one of the state’s largest former coal mines, which went bankrupt in 2015. The post West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on a former coal mining site appeared first on Electrek.

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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement

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Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, North Carolina, in February 2014. Approximately 108 million tons of coal ash are currently held in coal ash basins owned and operated by the defendants in North Carolina.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. Michalek, Paulina Jaramillo, and Roger Lueken (2015) “Emissions and Cost Implications of Controlled Electric Vehicle Charging in the U.S.

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DOE Awards Cooperative Agreement for $668M Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project

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million tons per year of CO2 will begin in 2015, and the demonstration project will end in 2019. The system will employ Alstom Power’s chilled ammonia process (CAP) ( earlier post ) to capture at least 90% of the CO 2 from a 235 megawatt slipstream of the 1,300 MW Mountaineer power plant near New Haven, West Virginia.

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Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

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A pilot project by We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) testing an Alstom advanced chilled ammonia process ( earlier post ) has demonstrated more than 90% capture of carbon dioxide from the flue stream of a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin (the Pleasant Prairie Carbon Capture Pilot Plant ).

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DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, NETL issued two funding opportunities announcements (FOAs) to support programs that enable the development and deployment of this energy technology. West Virginia University. The projects selected under the two FOAs will receive funding through NETL’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program.

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Researchers find Nissan LEAF creates less CO2 than Toyota Prius hybrid in west US and Texas, but more in N. Midwest

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For example, the state with the largest state subsidies ($7500) for BEVs is West Virginia, which is under the RFC region, where the Nissan LEAF and the Chevy Volt are likely higher emitting than the Toyota Prius. Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Mili-Ann M. Tamayao, Jeremy J. Michalek, Chris Hendrickson, and Inês M.

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