All Posts Tagged With: "coal-fired plants"

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Utility Seeks OK for Wyoming Power Plant Upgrades

At issue is whether the utility will be allowed to extend the life of the 700-megawatt plant near Kemmerer with upgrades, whose cost will eventually get passed on to consumers, to make sure the plant meets greenhouse gas emissions standards.

20Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal To Natural Gas - It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry

The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.

16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Utilities Weigh Price of Power with Aging Plants
and Renewable Mandates

Levelized cost analyses, however, rely on assumptions that can make the estimates lower or higher: How much will natural gas cost in 2020? How strong is the wind? Will energy tax breaks be available?

23Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Utilities Aim For Increased Efficiency

Can a push to reduce electricity usage reduce the need for new power plants in the Rockies despite the region’s population growth? Colorado illustrates changed thinking where utilities in recent years have started tackling energy efficiency with as much vigor as they once reserved for building new power plants.

5May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Are Natural Gas Emissions a Greater Threat Than Those of Coal?

Yes, according to a new study from Cornell University, which concludes that using hydraulic fracturing for NG extraction generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than burning coal. But the American Petroleum Institute says the study was based on weak data regarding methane leaks.

12Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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In-Depth — Supreme Court Hearing of GHG Case Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences

If the Court permits this kind of lawsuit, utilities could face significant future liability for climate change-related damages and a proliferation of similar nuisance suits across the country.

24Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report Says New EPA Rules Will Erode
Power Grid Reliability

Four federal environmental regulations to improve water and air quality could by 2018 chop by nearly half the amount of projected reserve energy available to the US power grid, according to the NERC report.

27Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Study Says Natural Gas Use Likely to Double

The increase, the report concluded, will come largely at the expense of coal and will be driven both by abundant supplies of natural gas — made more available by shale drilling — and by measures to restrict the carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change.

3Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Coal Plant Draws Fire in South Dakota

A group of Rapid City residents and the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center contend that Black Hills Power could have avoided building an expensive new coal-fired power plant in Wyoming by implementing energy efficiency measures.

7May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CO2 Reduction Not Part of WyGen III Coal-Fired Plant — at Least for Now

Bucking the trend in several other states, such as neighboring Colorado where new legislation is curtailing coal-fired plants, Wyoming’s latest facility is now online near Gillette. WyGen III is delivering electricity to approximately 70,000 residents in western South Dakota and parts of Wyoming and Montana.

14Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Jackson Hole Revisited: Notes and Reflections on the Western States Energy Conference

We headed south out of Jackson Hole last week, skirting the mountain ranges of Western Wyoming and across the ribbon of highway that intersects impossibly vast reaches of the open range. With my wife behind the wheel from Jackson to Rock Springs, it was time to reflect on the event that just took place.

3Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Landowners Say “Slow Down” on Wind Energy

Dozens of rural landowners want to “curb enthusiasm for” and ultimately kill plans to plant wind turbines and string a green-field power line segment across the northern Laramie Range in Converse and Albany counties

12May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon is a Four-Letter Word:
A Treatise to Fuel the Flame (and by doing so, regrettably, discharge some CO2)

Here’s where the science, in some people’s minds, falters. In the big scheme of things, can a case sans reasonable doubt be made that fossil fueled electric generating plants are causing the Wilkins ice shelf to break off and float away? After all, 40% of 3.2% is just 1.3%.

11Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Hiding in Plain Site

The sites in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where most of the coal ash debris in the West is concentrated, are relatively secure – only one, the Dave Johnston plant in northeast
Wyoming, is on the EPA’s “danger list.”

23Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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