Solar topped coal in Texas for the first time ever in March
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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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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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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Materials to pursue the offtake of blue ammonia from ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen project at its integrated complex in Baytown, Texas. The company says that blue ammonia will replace conventional coal as a main fuel and accelerate energy transition with less carbon footprint and cleaner power.
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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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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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EIA forecasts summer electricity prices will average $98/MWh in California’s CAISO market and $90/MWh in the ERCOT market in Texas. In past years, the electric power sector has substituted natural gas-fired generation with coal-fired generation when natural gas prices have risen.
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Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Texas’s electricity mix of energy sources managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electricity grid operator changed noticeably in 2023.
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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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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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DECEMBER 15, 2010
The Commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted unanimously to grant the air quality permits necessary for the $3.5 billion 600-megawatt (net) Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center under development near Sweetwater, Texas to begin construction. Earlier post.).
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JANUARY 18, 2012
CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.
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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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AUGUST 2, 2010
A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.
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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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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The projects selected for awards include: Improved Alloys. DOE Share: $293,519).
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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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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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Texas follows in second with nearly 3.2 There are over 300 utility-scale battery storage projects planned to be brought online by 2025, with roughly half of them being in Texas. Currently, Tesla has pilots for these programs in states including California , Texas and Massachusetts, along with the U.S. As the EIA also notes, U.S.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Teslarati
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Tesla’s Megapacks have also played a particularly special role in Hawaii, where the giant batteries have helped end the use of coal for power generation. The post also included a number of photos of the site from fellow partner Plus Power, seemingly showing a total of 79 separate Megapack units.
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As the eclipse cuts a path from Texas to Maine, they expect a 71% peak power reduction in the East, 45% in the West, and 93% in the Texas grid, ERCOT. Read more: Solar topped coal in Texas for the first time ever in March To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.
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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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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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Photo: Primergy Solar 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 ERCOT’s generation data also revealed that coal’s market share fell below 10% for the first time ever to just over 9%. million MWh in March.
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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.
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It sits on over 500 hectares (1230 acres) of the former Witznitz II open-cast brown coal mine. Read more: Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system. From that point the solar farm will feature more than 1.1
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. Methane from Coal Mine Shafts. Selection amount: $2,230,693). Selection amount: $2,141,876). Selection amount: $4,346,015).
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Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. These 35 cracker facilities release as much GHG as 35 coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.
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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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GTL systems from the companies can also be used to process coal and biomass assets providing the ability to convert these natural gas streams into useable products including diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. Currently, INFRA’s team is performing start-up operations on a 100 bpd demonstration plant (M100) located in Wharton, Texas.
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AUGUST 9, 2010
Seven universities have picked up a significant funding boost from the US Department of Energy in an effort to investigate the technology needed for turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas and high hydrogen content fuels.
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But scientists at Rice University, in Texas, have demonstrated a technique for zapping e-waste with bursts of electricity that heat the materials to feverish temperatures in a matter of seconds. This flash Joule heating process can also extract rare earths from fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion.
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The Coalition will bring together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from participating universities to address the fundamental research challenges that impede advancement of fossil energy-based technologies. DOE will invest $20 million in the project.
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