Retrofits & Upgrades – Coal

North Dakota coal plant now “fully circular,” owner says

Eco Material and Rainbow will capture, beneficiate, and market all of the solid-form discharged materials from Coal Creek Station, adding to their existing partnership that markets fly ash in the concrete sector.

Efficiency gains in a coal-fired power plant via variable frequency drive upgrades

Following its VFD conversion project, Rawhide Unit 1 saved over 4 MW of full load auxiliary power, setting records for its heat rate and dispatchable power, while simultaneously reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

New EPA air rule could cost $1.1b to implement

In 2026, the cost of achieving these reductions would be roughly $1.1 billion (in 2016 dollars), EPA said, and offer at least $9.3 billion in benefits.

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.

SNC-Lavalin, E2S sign MOU on exploring coal/fossil to energy storage conversion projects

Longtime power plant operations, management and services firm SNC-Lavalin will work with an energy storage developer on exploring opportunities to convert end-of-life fossil power plants to clean energy facilities. E2S Power and SNC-Lavalin signed the non-binding memorandum to collaborate on the rapidly growing energy storage market as a potential option for retiring power plants. Research firm Wood Mackenzie has forecast

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.

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The coal-fired San Juan Generation Station in New Mexico will not close within two years as expected, but could operate for several years beyond that was its new owners raise funds for a giant carbon-capture facility on the site. Various news reports indicate that Enchant Energy, which is buying the San Juan coal-fired plant from utility Public Service Co. of

Financial, legal pressures pushing Vistra to close Illinois coal-fired plant early

The owners of the coal-fired Joppa Power Plant will close the nearly 70-year-old site in 2022, three years earlier than previously announced. Owners Vistra Energy and its subsidiary, Electric Energy Inc., will retire Joppa on Sept. 1, 2022, as part of a revised agreement to settle a complaint brought by the Sierra Club in 2018. The complaint to the Illinois

Retrofits & Upgrades – Coal

Clean Coal Technologies

The coal-fired San Juan Generation Station in New Mexico will not close within two years as expected, but could operate for several years beyond that was its ne…

The owners of the coal-fired Joppa Power Plant will close the nearly 70-year-old site in 2022, three years earlier than previously announced. Owners Vistra Ener…

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…

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By the Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s largest electric provider has two weeks to file an amended application with state regulato…

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The parent of electricity generation equipment manufacturer Mitsubishi Power announced a major leadership change in its Energy Systems division. The Japanese gl…

GE completes coal-to-gas conversion at 661-MW CHP plant in China

Power Engineering International GE has announced the start of commercial operations for the Junliangcheng combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Tianjin City, m…

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(Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in November 2008 and has proved a perennial favorite of Power Engineering readers. With the New Year we thought …

Demolition ends, excavation begins as coal-to-gas repowering project proceeds in Mississippi

Burns & McDonnell has completed demolition work at a Mississippi coal-fired power plant which is being converted to natural gas generation three years from …

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GE is providing the Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales (CDEEE) with a combined software and services package at the coal-fired Central Te…

Fluor guiding front end engineering for Project Tundra carbon capture project at ND coal-fired station

Fluor Corp. will utilize its carbon capture technology in a North Dakota utilization and storage retrofit project. The Texas-based EPC firm was awarded the fron…

Idled Texas coal-fired plant may restart as regulators anticipate record peaks in 2020 and 2021 summers

Several news outlets and the grid operator for much of Texas are reporting that a recently mothballed coal-fired power plant is possibly going back into operati…

MHPS gains 12-year maintenance deal at coal-fired BLCP Power Station in Thailand

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems will continue to handle long-term maintenance duties for another 12 years at a Thai coal-fired power station it originally help…