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Mississippi Power says lignite plant will help stabilize rates

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Mississippi Power CEO Ed Day projects rates will go up 30 percent or less over the next 10 years to support construction of its Kemper County lignite plant,...


China's coal conundrum: choking on solutions

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China passed the US as the top carbon polluter in 2007; it now emits more than the US and India combined, says the US Energy Information Administration. Yet...


CCS lessons learned report American Electric Power Mountaineer CCS II project phase 1

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The front end engineering and design (FEED) package developed within Phase I incorporated knowledge gained and lessons learnt (construction, operations, and...


Hanoi workshop talks carbon capture, storage

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Foreign experts and local policymakers gathered at a workshop to discuss carbon capture and storage in Vietnam, in Hanoi on December 13. According to Le Tuan...


Legal and regulatory developments related to carbon capture and storage between November 2010 – June 2011

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As a part of the Policy, Legal and Regulatory (PLR) team’s research and preparatory activity for the drafting of the Global Status of CCS Report 2011, a legal...


SA supports carbon capture and storage but costs still a concern

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South Africa was fully committed to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, but the cost of CCS remained "prohibitively high" for developing countries...


Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage in Industrial Applications

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Developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture...


Coal at centre of minister’s power plan

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New South Wales Resources and Energy Minister Chris Hartcher slammed small-scale solar power as “hideously expensive” and warned against relying too much...


Uncertainty stalks power investment

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Victorian Energy Minister calls for CCS funding Mr O’Brien called on the federal government to invest in developing carbon capture and storage technology to...


The road to Durban for CCS - Next stop, Panama

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Some 3,000 delegates and observers gathered from 6-17 June at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 34th Subsidiary Body for...


Carbon dioxide storage legal in Spain

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What is it about the Spanish that seems to get things done lately? If it’s not the World Cup, it’s Nadal. If it’s not Barcelona, it's Real (well, sometimes...


Reviewing the experience from the CO2CRC Otway Project

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2010 has seen CCS development progress on a range of fronts; it has also been a big year for the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (...


Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Demonstration in Developing Countries: Analysis of Key Policy Issues and Barriers

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The importance of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to fossil fuel based developing countries (or emerging economies) cannot be overemphasised...


Rotterdam CCS Network Project: Case Study methodology report

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This report outlines the methodology used to capture the history and lessons learnt by the Rotterdam CCS Network Project. The methodology report looks to...


What is China doing in CCS?

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I talk to journalists frequently and one of the most common questions I get is: ‘what is China doing in CCS?’ The question seems fitting to answer now, within...


Strategic Analysis of the Global Status of Carbon Capture & Storage

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In May 2009, a consortium led by WorleyParsons and comprising Schlumberger, Electric Power Research Institute and Baker & McKenzie was engaged to undertake...