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Adriana Trujillo

California's Hidden Water Consumer: Power Plants - 0 views

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    there's another major consumer of water in California and the United States - one that doesn't receive the same attention as lush lawns or the agricultural industry: power plants. In 2005, power plants across the country withdrew as much water as farms did, according to a 2011 report, Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity's Thirst for a Precious Resource, from the Union of Concerned Scientists and a team of independent water experts.
Adriana Trujillo

India unveils the world's largest solar power plant | News | Al Jazeera - 0 views

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    India has completed the world's largest solar power plant-a 648 MW plant in Southern India. The $679 million plant is now operational and is expected to produce enough electricity to power about 150,000 homes.
Adriana Trujillo

Pollution from power plants in two states killed thousands of people last year | Grist - 0 views

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    More than 4,400 people died last year because of health problems caused by emissions from Pennsylvania and Ohio's power plants, according to reports from NextGen Climate America and PSE Healthy Energy. In total, the states' power plants caused problems that cost state residents $40 billion in health care bills, the reports found.
Adriana Trujillo

Moon Jae-in, South Korea's new president, is shutting down 10 big coal-power plants in ... - 0 views

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    South Korea's newly elected president, Moon Jae-in, has ordered the temporary closure of 10 coal power plants for the entire month of June to help reduce air pollution in the country. President Moon Jae-in reportedly stated that he plans to phase these coal plants out over his five-year term.
Adriana Trujillo

Clean Coal Test: Power Plants Prepare to Capture Carbon - 0 views

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    Southern Co.'s coal plants are among the biggest carbon emitters in the U.S., but the company is about to build a new carbon-capture plant that could play a vital role in slowing climate change. The Mississippi plant, along with another in Canada, will capture carbon emissions and pump them into depleted oil reservoirs
Adriana Trujillo

Harvard Study Finds $38 Billion Economic Benefit From EPA's Carbon Rule | ThinkProgress - 0 views

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    Researchers from Harvard University published a study that analyzes the economic and public health benefits of implementing a U.S. power plant carbon standard similar to the Clean Power Plan. The study estimates that a U.S. power plant carbon standard could bring net benefits close to $38 billion annually.
Adriana Trujillo

Texas Wesleyan unveils new campus power plant | The Star-Telegram - 0 views

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    Texas Wesleyan University has installed a co-generation system called the Combined Heat and Power Plant that can produce its own energy. Powered by natural gas, the system captures waste heat from the engine and exhaust and converts that to power. The project is projected to save the university $377,000 a year and is part of a $6.2 million energy project.
Adriana Trujillo

Obama: Power plant rule will shrink power prices - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third by 2030.
Adriana Trujillo

Vietnamese Artists, 350.org Partner on Apocalyptic Anti-Coal Campaign | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    In a dystopian portrayal of the future, the landscape is rife with fires, rising seas, and thick clouds billowing from power plant smokestacks; humans must wear gas masks for their own survival. This apocalyptic vision is captured in a series of photos featuring 8 popular Vietnamese singers, actors and dance artists as part of a new anti-coal campaign. Pollution from coal-fired power plants already causes an estimated 4,300 premature deaths in Vietnam annually, yet the country has the third largest pipeline of new coal plants in the world - behind only China and India.
Adriana Trujillo

World's First Carbon Capture and Storage at Coal Plant Operating · Environmen... - 1 views

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    SaskPower began full operation of its flagship carbon capture and storage project at the Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan yesterday, making it the world's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage facility at a coal-fired power plant.
Adriana Trujillo

Power in the Sahara: World's Largest Solar Plant Opens in Morocco - 0 views

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    Last week, the king of Morocco officially launched the first phase of the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, the Noor Complex.
Adriana Trujillo

No country for coal gen - Below 2°C and regulatory risk for US coal power own... - 1 views

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    Phasing out unprofitable coal plants could save U.S. consumers $10 billion a year by 2021 and boost the country's competitiveness, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker launched today. No Country for Coal Gen: Below 2°C and Regulatory Risk for U.S. Coal Power Owners is the first study to look at the economics of each U.S. coal power plant and provide investors with a tool to support a rational closure program to keep global warming below 2 C°.
Adriana Trujillo

Mainstream Renewable Power Wins Seven Government Contracts in Chile to Build One Gigawa... - 0 views

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    Cleantech company Mainstream Renewable Power will reportedly build and operate nearly 1 GW of wind power capacity in Chile by 2021. The 7 wind power projects have a combined investment value of more than $1.5 billion.
Adriana Trujillo

New York Approves $7.6 Billion Bailout Of Nuclear Power Plants - 0 views

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    The New York State Public Service Commission has approved a $7.6 billion clean-energy subsidy for the Ginna, FitzPatrick and Nine Mile Point 1 and 2 nuclear power plants as part of the state's move to more sustainable energy. Environmental groups protested the grants, saying the production and transport of nuclear fuel release a great deal of carbon into the air.
Adriana Trujillo

New report shows importance of Clean Power Plan | TheHill - 0 views

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    The US could cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20% more by using the Clean Power Plan, according to the Energy Information Administration. The report said carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants have been declining for a decade, but the nation could further accelerate that shift by employing the CPP. Rice University Associate Professor Daniel Cohan argues that the report emphasizes the importance of the ongoing litigation over the CPP and how far the US still has to go to meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets.
Adriana Trujillo

New Report: U.S. Power Sector Continues Significant Reductions of Air Pollutant Emissio... - 1 views

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    The nation's largest electric producers continue to substantially reduce emissions of key air pollutants, the latest comprehensive analysis of U.S. power plant emissions shows. The new report analyzed publicly reported data on carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and mercury emissions from the nation's 100 largest electric power producers, which account for 85 percent of the nation's power production.
Del Birmingham

New York Just Showed Every Other State How to Do Solar Right | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Under a new order from the state's Public Service Commission, utility companies will soon be barred from owning "distributed" power systems-that means rooftop solar, small wind turbines, and basically anything else that isn't a big power plant. "By restricting utilities from owning local power generation and other energy resources, customers will benefit from a more competitive market, with utilities working and partnering with other companies and service providers," the commission said in a statement.
Adriana Trujillo

House ready to block Clean Power Plan - POLITICO - 0 views

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    The House is expected to vote on a pair of Congressional Review Act resolutions that would stop the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan and a separate rule for new power plants. The Senate approved its own resolutions before the Thanksgiving break
Adriana Trujillo

S.C. Johnson Announces 3rd Site Is Now 100 Percent Wind-Powered - Mount Pleasant, WI Patch - 0 views

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    SC Johnson has begun sourcing 100% of the total electricity used at its Bay City, Mich., manufacturing plant from wind, making it the company's third site completely powered by wind, said the company. "With our third site powered entirely by wind energy, almost one-third of SC Johnson's energy usage globally now comes from renewable sources," said Kelly Semrau.
Adriana Trujillo

Pepsico recycles snack food waste into energy and fertilizer | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Waste from snack food production, such as potato peels, corn kernels and other ingredients, is used to generate 35% of the electricity needed to power two PepsiCo plants in Turkey, thanks to an investment the company made in anaerobic digestion technology at the plants two years ago as part of its zero-waste commitment. The nutrient-rich digestate is also used as a fertilizer that the company supplies to 350 contract farmers
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