CO2, Gas and West Virginia

Supreme Court curbs EPA authority to regulate CO2 from power plants

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JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has ruled in West Virginia v. EPA decides, for instance, how much of a switch from coal to natural gas is practically feasible by 2020, 2025, and 2030 before the grid collapses, and how high energy prices can go as a result before they become unreasonably “exorbitant.”.

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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

Last year I wrote an article — Electric Vehicles Have Lower Well-to-Wheel Emissions in All 50 States and DC Than Gas-Powered Vehicles — looking at “well to wheel” from the US Department of Energy and my own analysis of EV sales and source of electricity by state. times the number of EVs than households in West Virginia.

Coal

Coal West Virginia Power Powered

First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Injection of CO 2 began in a first-of-a-kind US Department of Energy–sponsored field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam. The field test is incorporating numerous site characterization and monitoring activities to ensure the safety and efficacy of CO2 injection.

West Virginia

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DOE Regional Partner Initiates Coal Seam CO2 Injection and Methane Recovery Study in Virginia

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

The results of the study will be used to assess the potential of carbon storage in coal seams as a safe and permanent method to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing production of natural gas. billion tons of CO2 in the coal seams while increasing natural gas production up to 2.5 feet in thickness.

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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JUNE 21, 2010

Earlier, an existing coalbed methane well operated by El Paso Exploration & Production had been converted for CO 2 injection, and four wells drilled to monitor reservoir pressure, gas composition, water quality, and the CO 2 plume. trillion cubic feet of natural gas from these coal seams. gigatons to 2.3

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

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Superalloy for Heavy Duty Gas Turbine Wheels for Improved Combined Cycle Efficiency General Electric Company will partner with The Ohio State University to help increase combined cycle turbine efficiency for next generation advanced cycle operations that require new alloys capable of operating at 1,200 degrees and above. Siemens Corporation.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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MAY 14, 2013

California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally. Partly as a result of that, four of the ten states with the lowest per capita carbon dioxide emissions are consistent importers of electricity: Idaho, California, Massachusetts, and Florida.

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2010 Emissions California Transportation

Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Units 1 and 2 at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant (P4) recently were retrofitted with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems to control emissions of nitrous oxides (NO x ) and wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems to control sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions. This retrofit also included the construction of a new chimney.

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EPRI CO2 Coal Carbon

NETL-RUA team using CT scanner to improve enhanced oil recovery techniques

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APRIL 6, 2012

Because CO 2 is a greenhouse gas, using it for this purpose also directly avoids emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. NETL is the research laboratory for the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Injecting CO 2 into oil-bearing formations can increase reservoir pressure, pushing more difficult-to-reach oil to the surface.

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Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership release Phase II reports

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The focus of the overall MRCSP program is to develop a class of carbon sequestration technologies, which includes capture and storage of carbon dioxide in deep geologic structures such as saline formations, active and depleted oil and gas fields, organic rich shales, and unmineable coal seams.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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AUGUST 25, 2009

In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V. Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store

Researchers develop bi-metallic catalyst for thermocatalytic decomposition of methane: H2 with low or no CO2

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MARCH 19, 2021

The TCD process starts by flowing methane gas through the patent-pending bimetallic catalyst inside a reactor vessel operating at approximately 600 ?C. The researchers then developed and demonstrated a thermocatalytic decomposition (TCD) method to separate and resynthesize the catalyst for a closed loop process.

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CO2 Hydrogen Carbon West Virginia

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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AUGUST 20, 2022

EVs lack tailpipe emissions, sure, but producing, operating, and disposing of these vehicles creates greenhouse-gas emissions and other environmental burdens. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electrical

Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Passage by the Senate is far from a certainty and will require all 50 yes votes including from conservative-leaning Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to the Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. It is like incentivizing automakers to produce ICE vehicles with larger gas tanks instead of a higher MPG rating.

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EV Driven

Supreme Court curbs EPA authority to regulate CO2 from power plants

Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

DOE Regional Partner Initiates Coal Seam CO2 Injection and Methane Recovery Study in Virginia

Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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

EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

NETL-RUA team using CT scanner to improve enhanced oil recovery techniques

Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership release Phase II reports

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

Researchers develop bi-metallic catalyst for thermocatalytic decomposition of methane: H2 with low or no CO2

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

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