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GE and CPECC Sign Agreements with USTDA to Advance Commercial Scale IGCC in China

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IGCC and carbon capture technologies have been commercially demonstrated and will need to be widely deployed to enable low cost power generation from domestic fossil energy resources, while at the same time achieving significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. – University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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Materials for Advanced Ultrasupercritical (AUSC) Steam Turbines – AUSC Component Demonstration Energy Industries of Ohio (Independence, OH), will team with AECOM, ALSTOM Power, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, the Electric Power Research Institute, and General Electric and Youngstown Thermal/Thermal Engineering Group to develop plans leading (..)

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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