Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The ROD and cooperative agreement between DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (STCE) sets in motion continued federal cost-shared funding for the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project, to be built just west of Midland-Odessa, Texas. About 200 megawatts of electricity will be put on the power grid.

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JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. This is another important milestone for the Texas Clean Energy Project, coming on the heels of last month’s power purchase announcement with CPS Energy in San Antonio. urea production. CO 2 capture and shipment via pipeline shown at top.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4 thousand in 2017.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 21, 2024

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 billion grant from the US Department of Agriculture meant to help clean energy while saving rural jobs.

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Coal Grant Texas Solar 139

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

The contract is one of the first major commercial agreements in the US for the sale of liquid transport fuels made from coal. The Medicine Bow project will use Carbon Basin coal optioned from DKRW partner (and coal mine operator) Arch Coal to produce refined hydrocarbon liquid products.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% Coal was again the fastest growing fossil fuel with predictable consequences for carbon emissions; it now accounts for 30.3% globally, and 8.4%

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AUGUST 6, 2010

The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas.

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JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX). Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding. Energy Fuels Resources (Lakewood, CO).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. -EOR System. common with CO 2. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. TMRC’s project partners include Penn State, Jeddo Coal Company and McCarl’s. This is the fourth US Government award relating to the production of rare earth minerals in which Texas Mineral Resources has participated. The award value is approximately $1.1

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MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Electrek

APRIL 5, 2024

Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 million MWh in March.

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Texas Solar Coal Grid 145

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

TXE is engaged in developing a gasification facility in Beaumont, Texas that will convert petroleum coke, an oil refining waste product, into hydrogen and pipeline quality carbon dioxide. Zero Emission Energy Plants Ltd. ZEEP ) has entered into a definitive agreement with Eastman Chemical Company Investments, Inc.,

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MARCH 10, 2010

The NRG Energy project was selected under the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI), a cost-shared collaboration between the federal government and private industry to demonstrate low-emission carbon capture and storage technologies in advanced coal-based, power generation. Parish Unit 7 in Thompsons, Texas.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 21, 2024

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 The grant will go to San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc (SMECI) headquartered in Atascosa County, Texas, south of San Antonio, and serving 340,000 customers 47 South Texas counties.

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Coal Grant Texas Solar 98

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The China units would utilize coal as the primary raw material. Celanese also intends to build an approximately 40,000 ton industrial ethanol production unit at its Clear Lake, Texas, facility for either internal use or merchant demand. The unit will also support continuing technology development efforts over the next several years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting carbon dioxide into coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to determine the feasibility of CO 2 storage in unmineable coal seams and the potential for enhanced coalbed methane recovery. feet in thickness. trillion cubic feet.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. billion in private capital cost share as part of the third round of the Department’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC, Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP).

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JUNE 19, 2010

The technology would apply to many additional coal-based electric power plants in the United States and throughout the world. Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas. The University of Texas will contribute their expertise to the project by developing and testing an advanced solvent used to capture the carbon dioxide.

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Carbon Coal CO2 Texas 186

EV Box

MARCH 4, 2021

The Texas electricity crisis that left more than four million people without power for days amid below-freezing temperatures is forcing the state to rethink its reliance on traditional fossil energy resources like coal, nuclear, and especially natural gas.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. 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. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas.

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MAY 16, 2020

Topsoe’s technology will be incorporated into Air Products’ recently announced world-scale coal-to-methanol production facility in Bengalon, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In addition, Topsoe technology will also be part of the previously announced world-scale Gulf Coast Ammonia production plant in Texas.

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Global Production Indonesia Hydrogen 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 Ramana said the reliable, fast and highly sensitive sensors will be able to withstand the corrosive atmosphere and extremely high temperatures found in coal gasification power systems. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

As both a former DEP [Department of Environmental Protection] and Economic Development Secretary for the Commonwealth, I believe that the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania will become the biggest economic driver in the state since days of coal and steel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

When considering GHG reductions alone, this would mean the western US and Texas (where there is high confidence that GHG emissions of the Nissan LEAF are lower than the best gasoline vehicles) and in Florida and New England (where the LEAF also likely has lower GHG emissions). Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Mili-Ann M.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

The targeted coal seams are in the Pratt, Mary Lee, and Black Creek Coal groups within the upper Pottsville Formation and range from 940 to 1,800 feet in depth and from 1 to 6 feet in thickness. Coal in the Black Warrior Basin has the potential to sequester 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from these coal seams.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Its properties are concentrated in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Louisiana and Montana. XTO’s resource base is the equivalent of 45 trillion cubic feet of gas and includes shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil. Morgan Securities Inc.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. Tesla Energy takes a stand against coal and gas generators in Australia. Abbott’s directives were released to improve the stability of the Texas grid after it failed in the February winter storm.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If we assume about $5 MBtu for coal in China, we could convert those hydrocarbons to ethanol for somewhere between $1.50 Celanese also intends to build an approximately 40,000-ton industrial ethanol production unit at its Clear Lake, Texas, facility for either internal use or merchant demand. The plant could then scale to 1.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

EIA expects coal consumption to decrease by 3% in 2022 and by 4% in 2023, as 24 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants retire by the end of 2023. At the same time, refinery capacity in the United States has decreased since 2019. EIA expects renewable energy to provide 24% of US electricity generation in 2023, up from 20% in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Exelon Corporation intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a non-profit organization developing an advanced low-emissions coal demonstration facility to be located in Mattoon, Ill. The Exelon Generation fossil portfolio consists of approximately 6,500 megawatts of capacity produced using coal, oil, and natural gas. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 For example, some states are located near abundant hydroelectric supplies, while others contain abundant coal resources. million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 tonnes/person).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

The LPMEOH Process, developed for the production of methanol from coal, is an advanced indirect technology that utilizes synthesis gas, produced via gasification, to produce methanol. The Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH) Process, funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and developed in collaboration with Air Products and Chemicals Inc.,

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