New Projects – Coal

EU calls on China to stop building coal plants and contribute to a climate fund for poor nations

China has been on a coal power plant construction binge, particularly following electricity shortages in some parts of the country’s south during a heatwave and drought in the summer of 2022.

POWERGEN 2023 keynote speakers: Transitioning to net-zero challenging but doable

Hydrogen, zero-emission load following resources, small nuclear reactors, and sustainability were the key themes presented by four keynote speakers at POWERGEN 2023 in Orlando, Florida.

Regulators approve 200 MW wind project with Basin Electric PPA in place

The project would consist of up to 71 wind turbines spread across some 47,000 acres in South Dakota.

Facing multiple hurdles, OPPD delays power plant retirement and fuel-switch plans

Omaha Public Power District said it plans to delay the retirement of North Omaha Station (NOS) units 1-3 and fuel conversion of units 4 and 5 from low-sulfur coal to natural gas. The public power provider said the delay is only until the utility’s new natural gas generation balancing stations are fully approved for grid interconnection service by the Federal

Exxon seeks $100 billion for Houston carbon capture plan

Exxon Mobil has suggested turning the 50-mile-long Houston Ship Channel into a carbon capture and storage hub.

U.S coal-fired power makes 22 percent rally this year, EIA predicts

The U.S. electricity sector will generate 22 percent more coal-fired generation this year than in 2020, ending six straight years of precipitous declines. A new report by the federal Energy Information Administration, utilizing recent data, forecasts that coal-fired turbines will pick up the slack amidst higher natural gas prices. Gas-fired generation currently accounts for nearly 40 percent of the U.S.

Quezon Power MD: Coal in Asia not disappearing soon

Power Engineering International “We see the demand for coal continuing to rise, we see China and India buying enormous amounts of coal and building new plants, that says that coal won’t disappear in this part of the world any time soon,” stated Frank Thiel, managing director of Quezon Power. Thiel was joined by Andrew Crosby, solutions integration manager at Siemens

Coal financing in Africa and Asia shows upward trend

ESI Africa Pockets of funders continue to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This is according to the knowledge brief recently released by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and SEforALL’s Energising Finance research series, Coal Power Finance in High-Impact Countries. The research highlighted that $42 billion was committed to grid-connected coal power plants between 2013-2019 in

New Projects – Coal

Power Engineering International “We see the demand for coal continuing to rise, we see China and India buying enormous amounts of coal and building new plants…

ESI Africa Pockets of funders continue to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This is according to the knowl…

China reopening coal mines as electricity demand accelerates

Coal-fired power generation in China is bucking global trends and getting ready to get bigger. The nation’s National Development and Reform Commission last we…

1.98-GW India coal-fired plant ready to enter operations by August

All three units of a massive new coal-fired power plant in India should be operational by the end of this month. Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd, part of Vedanta, annou…

AEP issues RFP for coal to supply power plants over three years

American Electric Power is seeking fuel for its coal-fired power generation plants to supply through 2024. The Ohio-based AEP issued a request for proposal for …

Greece’s last coal plant project actually converting to natural gas by 2025

Power Engineering International Greece’s Public Power Corp. (PPC), the country’s biggest energy company, has announced that its coal-fired thermal…

New report: China now generates 54 percent of the world’s coal-fired electricity

Coal-fired power’s generation and carbon-intensity are both falling somewhat around the world, but China has emerged far and away as the dominant driver in it…

Report: Asian electricity projects could drive coal to $1.5T global market by 2025

Chinese, Indian and Anglo companies will lead the way as a global coal market grows at a double-digit rate this year, according to a new report. ResearchandMark…

Coal project financing totals $1T globally despite Paris, zero-carbon pledges, report says

By Rod Walton, Power Engineering and POWERGEN+ Content Director Many utilities and nations around the developed world may be announcing accelerated moves away f…

Mexico: A return to favoring coal-fired power?

The decision last summer to buy two million tons of coal was not an anamoly in the Mexico power generation plans for the future. It was a sign of which directio…

DOE awards $25M for next-gen coal-fired and CCUS project in Illinois, includes Doosan & Kiewit

By Prairie Research Institute A three-year Illinois project to design a next-gen coal-powered generation plant has received $25 million in federal funding. The …

Serbian utility orders two Mitsubishi emissions reduction systems for coal-fired plant

Mitsubishi Power will deliver two sets of flue gas desulfurization systems for a Serbian coal-fired power plant. The Japan-based Mitsubishi Power received an or…