Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor
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- IPCC REPORT HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF CCS IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
- PENN. REGULATORS CALL FOR FLEXIBILITY AS EPA DEVELOPS CO2 RULE FOR EXISTING PLANTS
- HUSKY ENERGY TO HOST CO2 SOLUTIONS CARBON CAPTURE PILOT
- AT CLOSE OF NER 300 SECOND ROUND, WHITE ROSE CCS PROJECT LIKELY TO PROFIT
- MICHIGIAN ENACTS LEGESLATION TO HELP INCENTIVIZE EOR
- MANTRA ENERGY TO LAUNCH CAPTURE PILOT AT LAFARGE CEMENT PLANT
- PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPENS FOR PROPOSED SEQUESTRATION WELL IN DECATUR, ILL
- SASKATCHEWAN TO PROVIDE $400,000 TO PTRC
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- NETL SEEKS PARTNERS FOR GEOTHERMAL MINERAL RECOVERY WORK
- SASKPOWER, VATTENFALL SIGN MOU ON CCS KNOWLEDGE-SHARING
- COMMENT PERIOD ON NETL SUPPORT CONTRACT DRAFT RFP ENDS TODAY
- IEA CHIEF ECONOMIST REITERATES CASE FOR CCS
- DOE, TAMPA ELECTRIC MARK STARTUP OF POLK DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
- EPA’S MCCARTHY DEFENDS RELIANCE ON CCS AT BUDGET HEARING
- WITH UPCOMING REGS FOR EXISTING PLANTS, EPA EMPHASIZES FLEXIBILITY
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Budget & PolicyNETL SEEKS PARTNERS FOR GEOTHERMAL MINERAL RECOVERY WORK
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 The National Energy Technology Laboratory is seeking partners for one or more applications to the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in response to a recent funding opportunity announcement on low temperature geothermal mineral recovery. “The NETL is seeking project partners that can contribute technical experience, […]
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InternationalSASKPOWER, VATTENFALL SIGN MOU ON CCS KNOWLEDGE-SHARING
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 SaskPower and Vattenfall this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding on carbon capture and storage knowledge and technologies. The MOU, which will be in in effect for five years, “sets out the two parties’ intentions to explore opportunities for collaboration in order to advance their common interests concerning carbon capture […]
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Contracts & ProcurementCOMMENT PERIOD ON NETL SUPPORT CONTRACT DRAFT RFP ENDS TODAY
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 Comments are due by today on the Department of Energy’s draft Request for Proposals for Research and Development – Implementation and Support (RADIS) Services at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The draft RFP, which seeks a contractor to “actively perform and provide support for fundamental and applied research efforts” and […]
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International
IEA CHIEF ECONOMIST REITERATES CASE FOR CCS
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 International Energy Agency Chief Economist Fatih Birol this week made an emphatic cast for government incentives or a carbon price to drive development of carbon capture and storage technology, arguing that commercially available CCS is vital “if you want to make use of the fossil fuel reserves.” Speaking on the […]
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Budget & Policy
DOE, TAMPA ELECTRIC MARK STARTUP OF POLK DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 The Department of Energy and Tampa Electric Company this week marked the startup of a pilot project to demonstrate a warm gas cleanup carbon capture technology in a coal gasification unit at the Polk Power Plant Unit-1 in Tampa, Fla. The project, which DOE said came in approximately $3 million […]
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Budget & Policy
EPA’S MCCARTHY DEFENDS RELIANCE ON CCS AT BUDGET HEARING
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy was again pressed on the commercial viability of carbon capture and storage technology at an April 9 hearing before the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee on EPA’s FY 2015 budget request, with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) suggesting that EPA regulations for new power […]
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Budget & Policy
WITH UPCOMING REGS FOR EXISTING PLANTS, EPA EMPHASIZES FLEXIBILITY
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 4/11/2014 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy this week emphasized flexibility and a willingness to work with individual states when it comes to the agency’s upcoming carbon emission regulations for existing power plants, though she made it clear that such leeway would have limits. “The challenge that you’ve given to us […]
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- MISSISSIPPI POWER: KEMPER COSTS INCREASE BY ANOTHER $177M
- ENERGY SEC. MONIZ EMPHASIZES CO2 UTILIZATION AT HOUSE HEARING
- EPA GRANTS FIRST CLASS VI WELL PERMIT TO FUTUREGEN PROJECT
- WITH NEW METHANE STRATEGY EPA TO EXAMINE NEED FOR NEW REGS
- EXXON: FOSSIL ENERGY RESERVES WON’T BE ‘STRANDED’ DUE TO GHG REGS
- HOUSE LAWMAKERS PRESS EPA’S MCCARTHY ON NSPS, CCS
- NETL SEEKS INFO ON CO2-EOR STORAGE OPPORTUNITIES
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- EPA ADMINISTRATOR DEFENDS FY2015 BUDGET AT HOUSE, SENATE HEARINGS
- SEN. HEITKAMP PROPOSES BILL TO SPEED UP COMMECIAL CCS DEPLOYMENT
- POTENTIAL BIDDERS ON NETL ‘RADIS’ WORK SEEK MORE CLARITY IN FINAL RFP
- WIRED MAGAZINE: ‘CLEAN COAL IS THE FUTURE’
- CANADIAN GROUP OFFERING FUNDING SUPPORT FOR GHG REDUCTION PROJECTS IN ALBERTA
- C2ES EXAMINES OPTIONS FOR EPA REGS ON EXISTING POWER PLANTS
- DOE FOSSIL CHIEF GETS FEW QUESTIONS FROM HOUSE APPOPRIATORS
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- IN COMMENTS, BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT CLASS VI WELL GUIDANCE
- KY SEEKS PLAN FOR COAL PLANTS TO MEET EPA REGS WITHOUT FUEL SWITCH
- PUBLIC HEARING SET FOR FUTUREGEN PIPELINE APPROVAL
- NRDC SAYS PLAN TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
- DOE FOSSIL CHIEF TO DISCUSS FY15 BUDGET REQUEST WITH HOUSE APPROPRIATORS
- RIO TINTO CEO CALLS SUPPORT FOR CCS ‘ESSENTIAL’
- Q&A: TECHNOLOGY CENTRE MONGSTAD’S OLAV FALK-PEDERSEN
- CHINESE DELEGTATION MEETS WITH U.S. OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON ON CLIMATE, CCUS
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- FMR. DOE COAL CHIEF: EOR NOT A ‘NICHE’ OPPORTUNITY FOR CO2
- WYOMING GOV. SIGNS BILL FOR CARBON CAPTURE TEST CENTER
- HOUSE ENERGY PANEL TO INVESTIGATE EPA NSPS DECISIONMAKING
- FY15 REQUEST RENAMES REGIONAL CCS PARTNERSHIPS, ENDS EOR STORAGE STUDY FUNDING
- AT HEARING, A SHARP DIVIDE ON IMPACT OF NSPS ON CCS, COAL
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- DOE FY2015 BUDGET REQUEST WOULD SLASH FUNDING FOR COAL RESEARCH
- INDUSTRY NEEDS TO DO MORE TO ADVANCE CCS: LEGISLATORS
- WHITE HOUSE CITES CLIMATE CHANGE AS PRIORITY IN EPA FY 2015 BUDGET
- HOUSES PASSES BILL THAT WOULD ROLL BACK EPA GHG RULE FOR NEW POWER PLANTS
- U.S. MUST TAKE LEAD IN CCS R&D: SENATOR
- REPORT: EPA POWER PLANT RULE SHOULD INCLUDE CONSUMER ENERGY EFFICIENCY
- REGULATORTY FRAMEWORK NEEDED FOR CCS COMMERCIALIZATION, EXPERT SAYS
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- MONIZ PRESSED ON CCUS VIABILITY AT NATIONAL GOVERNORS MEETING
- DOE’S FRIEDMANN: ‘PARTICULAR URGENCY’ TO REDUCE CCS COSTS
- HIGH COURT CONSIDERS AUTHORITY OF EPA TO REGULATE GHGS FROM POWER PLANTS
- DOE, INDUSTRY FOCUSING ON REDUCING COST OF CO2 CAPTURE TO $40 A TON—AND BEYOND
- UK AWARDS DESIGN FUNDING TO PETERHEAD CCS PROJECT
- EPA: DRAFT POWER PLANT RULE DOES NOT VIOLATE ENERGY POLICY ACT
- PODESTA: INDUSTRY MUST PLAN FOR COST OF CARBON
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- REPORT: U.S. CAN CUT EMISSIONS AT LOW-COST BY DISPLACING COAL WITH NATURAL GAS
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- U.S. METHANE EMISSIONS MAY BE HIGHER THAN EPA ESTIMATES: STUDY
- DOE: JOINT VENTURES WITH OIL COMPANIES COULD HELP UTILITIES GARNER REVENUE FROM CO2-EOR
- MONIZ: CCS KEY FOR CHINA TO CONTINUE USING COAL IN CARBON-CONSTRAINED WORLD
- SECRETARY OF STATE KERRY TALKS CCS WITH CHINA ON ASIA TOUR
- DM PETROLEUM SUES DOE OVER FAILED STRATEGIC PATROLEUM RESERVE CONTRACT BID
- INDUSTRY CALLS ON UNITED KINGDOM TO ADVANCE CCS TECHNOLOGY
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- WITNESSES WEIGH IN ON CCS VIABILITY AT PUBLIC HEARING ON EPA’S NSPS RULE
- POWER PLANT REGS COULD PAVE WAY FOR CLIMATE LEGISLATION: NRDC
- STATES COULD OPT OUT OF REGULATIONS GOVERNING POWER PLANTS UNDER NEW LEGISLATION
- INDUSTRY GROUPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT EPA GHG RULE FOR POWER PLANTS
- NEWLY FOUND CATALYST COULD DRIVE COMMODITY MARKET FOR CO2: SCIENTIST
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- CCS TECHNOLOGY COULD BE BOON TO UK ECONOMY: REPORT
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- LARGE-SCALE CCS DEMONSTRATION AT COMMERCIAL PLANT CONCLUDES INITIAL TEST PHASE
- GAO DENIES SECOND SPR PROTEST: FLUOR-LED TEAM NOW SET TO BEGIN TRANSITION
- SEN. VITTER PRESSES EX-IM BANK HEAD ON POLICY FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
- EXPERT: GOP LAWMAKERS’ ATTEMPTO BLOCK EPA DRAFT RULE FACES CHALLENGES
- KEMPER COUNTY IGCC PROJECT MAY COST AN ADDITIONAL $40 MILLION
- PRESIDENT TOUCHES ON CLIMATE ISSUES IN STATE OF THE UNION
- MURRAY ENERGY TO SUE EPA OVER DRAFT EMISSIONS RULE
- Q&A: ADVANCED RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT VELLO KUUSKRAA
- BILL TARGETING EPA GHG RULE FOR NEW POWER PLANTS PASSES HOUSE COMMITTEE
- PROPOSED WYOMING CCS TEST CENTER AIMS TO SPUR NOVEL CO2 USES
- EPA SEEKS TO ADRESS QUESTIONS ON RECENT CO2 INJECTION RULE
- REP. WAXMAN, LEGISLATIVE GIANT ON CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES, TO RETIRE
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- EPA SCIENCE PANEL VOTES NOT TO REVIEW SCIENCE BEHIND GHG RULE
- EPA TRANSITION GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR WELL OPERATORS CREATES CONFUSION
- UNDER SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE NOMINEE IDENTIFIES BARRIERS TO CCS ADOPTION
- NEBRASKA FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENING EPA RULE ON GHGS FROM COAL PLANTS
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- GROUPS LOOK TO SHAREHOLDER PRESSURE TO PROMPT ACTION ON EMISSIONS
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- SENATE COMMITTEE RE-APPROVES DOE FOSSIL ENERGY NOMINEE SMITH
- DOE TO PROVIDE $1 BILLION TO FUTUREGEN 2.0
- GAO REJECTS STRATEGIC PATROLEUM RESERVE BID PROTEST
- FIRSTENERGY TO LOOK AT POLICIES TO REDUCE GHGS IN RESPONSE TO SHAREHOLDER PRESSURE
- BILL TAKING AIM AT EPA RULES FOR NEW POWER PLANT PASSES SUBCOMMITTEE
- COAL R&D, CCS GET BOOST IN OMNIBUS PACKAGE
- MCCARTHY TAKES QUESTION ON EPA GHG RULE AT HEARING
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES CONTINUED ROLE FOR COAL IN NEW ENERGY PLATFORM
- TCEP RENEGOTIATING PURCHASE POWER AGREEMENT WITH CPS ENERGY
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- VIRGINIA GOVERNOR-ELECT REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR CCS
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- DOE TO PROVIDE $261 MILLION TO LEUCADIA’S LAKE CHARLES CCS PROJECT
- FORMER NETL DIRECTOR FOUND DEAD
- NSPS RULE PUBLISHED IN FEDERAL REGISTER AFTER THREE-MONTH DELAY
- KEMPER IGCC PROJECT COST NOW TOPS $5 BILLION
- LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE BILLS TO BLOCK EPA POWER PLANT RULES
- FEW CHANGES TO FINALIZED EPA RULE ON CO2 HAZARDOUS WASTE EXCLUSION
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- ConocoPhillips and Enbridge to Invest in Skyonic Corp. Tech.
- Price on Emissions Shows Greatest Reductions in BPC Analysis
- Groups Present Conflicting Outlooks for EPA Regulations
- Clean Coal Technology, CCS Not on Track, IEA Says
- Norway Stresses CCS Support in New Budget
- New Jersey to Repeal RGGI Rules
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Budget & Policy
ConocoPhillips and Enbridge to Invest in Skyonic Corp. Tech.
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 Texas-based Skyonic Corp. will receive $12.5 million in funding from ConocoPhillips and Enbridge Inc. to help develop its SkyCycle carbon capture technology through an arrangement announced this week. The SkyCycle process, developers say, has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of carbon capture as well as create saleable […]
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Budget & Policy
Price on Emissions Shows Greatest Reductions in BPC Analysis
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 Of four scenarios modeled by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in its recently released analysis exploring the impact of greenhouse gas regulation, those which featured a price on emissions yielded the most significant reductions of greenhouse gases. As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares to release its performance standards […]
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Budget & Policy
Groups Present Conflicting Outlooks for EPA Regulations
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 With the Environmental Protection Agency set to announce early next week new emissions guidelines for existing coal-fired power plants, a set of interest groups have released conflicting reports as to what effect these and similar EPA guidelines for new-build coal plants may have on the economy, citizens’ pocketbooks and […]
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International
Clean Coal Technology, CCS Not on Track, IEA Says
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 For the third consecutive year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented clean coal technology and carbon capture and storage (CCS) with a “not on track” rating in its annual report Tracking Clean Energy Progress. The report, released last week, finds that “the unrelenting rise in coal use without […]
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International
Norway Stresses CCS Support in New Budget
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 The Norwegian government reiterated a commitment to establish at least one full-scale carbon capture and storage facility by 2020 in a revised national budget for 2014 released May 14. The new budget comes after a previous government announced last fall that plans to develop a full-scale CCS project at […]
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Budget & Policy
New Jersey to Repeal RGGI Rules
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/30/2014 The state of New Jersey announced late last week, plans to submit an official proposal to repeal regulations relevant to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) as required by the judgment of a state appeals court. The court ruled earlier this year that Governor Chris Christie’s (R-N.J.) administration broke […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Amends NETL RADIS RFP, Defends Approach to Key Personnel Penalties
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 5/23/2014 The Department of Energy this week issued an amendment to the final Request for Proposals for Research and Development—Implementation and Support (RADIS) Services at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, making minor technical corrections and leaving the June 12 due date unchanged. Notably, though, a set of Q&A’s released alongside the […]