Valero Energy (VLO) has just announced it is shutting down its Delaware City Refinery. This is a major news announcement because refiners should be seen as a canary in the coalmine for end-user demand and Valero is one company in [...]
Valero Energy (VLO) has just announced it is shutting down its Delaware City Refinery. This is a major news announcement because refiners should be seen as a canary in the coalmine for end-user demand and Valero is one company in [...]
On Monday of this week the Electrification Coalition, a newly organized industrial lobby that styles itself as a
nonpartisan, not-for-profit group of business leaders committed to promoting policies and actions that facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale in order to combat the economic, environmental, [...]
The twisted, tortuous tale of ethanol as the great hope for an energy-independent America holds an object lesson for us all. What I wrote in my most recent article for SA, on a different subject, holds equally true here:
Entrepreneurs make money; early investors make [...]
NEW HAVEN, West, Virginia (Reuters) - A looming government clampdown on CO2 emissions is about to confront an already embattled U.S. coal power industry with two stark options: capture carbon or die.
Legislation from Congress or tough new regulatory demands could make it costly to spew greenhouse gases, posing a serious [...]
By Jeff St. John
General Electric (GE) and Chinese coal company Shenhua Group will partner on cleaner coal power plant technology, the two announced Tuesday, adding their names to a growing list of Chinese-U.S. clean energy partnerships.
In Beijing, US President Barack Obama and China President Hu Jintao announced a package of seven measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy, including: a Clean Energy Research Center; Electric Vehicles Initiative; Energy Efficiency Action Plan; Renewable Energy Partnership; 21st Century Coal; Shale [...]
The new group, called the Electrification Coalition, envisions significant [...]
As one of a series of GE agreements signed in China this week (earlier post), GE and Shenhua Group Corporation have agreed to a framework for an industrial coal gasification joint venture which would combine GE’s expertise in gasification and cleaner power generation technologies with Shenhua’s expertise in [...]
Cloud Peak Energy (CLD), a carve-out of Rio Tinto (RTP) and the third largest coal producer in the U.S., is expected to go public this week. Reuters reports that "analysts cautioned that demand [...]
Andrew Horowitz submits: There have been a few items that we have seen lately regarding China’s desire to build their commodity stockpiles and now they are reportedly looking to create strategic coal reserve. Our position in Consol Energy ([...]
A group of CEOs on Monday came out favor of a regional roll-out of electric vehicles in up to eight cities to demonstrate the viability of the technology and incubate the fledgling industry.
The Electricifcation Coalition held a press conference in Washington, D.C. and released an Electrification Roadmap, which prescribes the [...]
Linc Energy Limited has extended its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BP Australia Pty Ltd. This MOU allows for BP Australia to be the first customer to purchase a minimum of 14,000 barrels per day of diesel to be produced via Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and subsequent Gas to [...]
Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide could be prevented from entering the atmosphere following the discovery of a way to turn coal, grass or municipal waste more efficiently into clean fuels.
Scientists have adapted a process called "gasification" which is already used to clean up dirty materials before they are [...]
Before then, she used kerosene as cooling fuel, but she told The Guardian she packed and put away the stove she was using when the price of [...]
Solar is cheaper than coal today, asserts Jigar Shah, the founder of Sun Edison who now heads the Carbon War Room, a new nonprofit group.
This is a provocative statement, given that as my colleague Matthew L. Wald reported this year studies by the Electric Power Research Institute and [...]
The 1,556-megawatt plant plans to finish the construction of facilities to reduce sulphur emissions and air pollution [...]
Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) has executed a revised license agreement with the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) for its U-GAS technology rights. The revised agreement expands the rights and further defines the terms for SES to sub-license U-GAS to third parties for coal, coal and biomass mixtures, or 100% [...]
Siemens Energy, Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the [...]
Business leaders representing the entire value chain of an electrified transportation system will hold a press conference on Monday, 16 November to announce the formation of the Electrification Coalition and the release of its Electrification Roadmap, a report outlining a vision for the deployment of electric vehicles and infrastructure on [...]
National Coal Corp. (NCOC)
Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
November 5, 2009 4:30 pm ET
Unless, that is, someone comes up with an alternative.
Energy executive Rune Bjornson thinks he has the answer. [...]
