Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 Mississippi Power must begin issuing refunds for 2013 rate increases issued to help pay for construction of the Kemper County Energy Facility, the Mississippi Power Commission ordered this week. The Kemper facility is a first-of-its-kind new build coal plant that will employ carbon capture, utilization and storage technology. In […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 The development of an industrial carbon capture and storage network in the United Kingdom’s most carbon-intensive area, Teesside, is feasible, according to a blueprint released last week by the Teesside Collective.  The project aims to outfit several high emission industrial facilities with carbon capture and storage technology and connect […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 In a June 29 letter to the nation’s Governors, a group of 45 Senate Democrats emphasized the need for States’ support in the development of a new national energy policy. The national energy policy has not been updated in more than a decade, the Senators write, and the best […]

Lance Moore GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 Through the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants, the United States is seeking to facilitate leadership and credibility in upcoming international negotiations to create a global climate policy, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said this week. The proposed regulation, due to be finalized in August, […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 The United Kingdom must amp up its support of carbon capture and storage to reach its long-term climate goals, according to a new report released this week by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project. The report finds that to decarbonize, the country must reduce emissions from power generation 85-90 percent […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) filed a lawsuit late last week calling for injunctive relief from the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standard for existing coal-fired power plants. The proposed regulation, dubbed the Clean Power Plan, requires states to develop action plans to meet federally set carbon […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 The Western Governors’ Association released a policy resolution late last month that outlines actions to be taken to support the advancement of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the West. According to the resolution, 63.3 billion barrels of oil could be economically recovered if EOR is adopted on a large-scale. […]

GHG Monitor 7/10/2015 IN EPA The Environmental Protection Agency sent its proposed draft of the federal implementation plan (FIP) for compliance with proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants to the White House Office of Management and Budget this week. The proposed FIP will be implemented in states that do not submit a […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 Global action taken now to combat climate change will lead to economic and health benefits long-term, according to a report released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency. The report compares two scenarios, one in which global temperature rise is limited to 2 degrees Celsius and one in which […]

Lance Moore GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 The Energy Technologies Institute, a public-private partnership based in the United Kingdom, late last week announced a £2 million request for proposals (RFP) for early development plans for a second phase carbon capture and storage project to build off infrastructure created for the “Phase 1” projects currently under development in […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 Fears that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon regulations for existing coal-fired power plants will be too much for the nation’s natural gas infrastructure to bear are unfounded, according to a new study published this week by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEE Institute). The study explores what effect […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 The House of Representative this week approved by a vote of 247-180 Rep. Ed Whitfield’s (R-Ky.) “Ratepayer Protection Act,” which is intended to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing proposed carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants. The EPA’s proposal, which is due to be finalized in August, […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 The United States and China this week announced two new joint carbon capture and storage projects to be embarked upon in keeping with commitments made in November 2014 in the counties’ Joint Announcement on Climate Change. The counties announced the projects, an Ordos Basin CCUS-Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project […]

As is our annual practice, GHG Monitor will not publish next week in observance of the July 4th holiday. The next regular issue will be in your inbox July 10. 

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 SaskPower, in partnership with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, unveiled a new Carbon Capture Test Facility in Estevan, Saskatchewan late last week. The center taps into the flue gas from the nearby Shand Power Station, enabling researchers to test equipment, chemical and engineering designs. Having been designed in a modular […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 With the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants due to be finalized this summer, the agency is taking steps to ready itself for the task of implementing the rule, Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, said this […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 CO2 Solutions has entered into an agreement with Ohio-based GasTran, a provider of high-intensity gas-liquid rotate packed bed (RPB) mass transfer technology, the company announced this week in a release. The companies will work to combine the GasTran RPB technology with CO2 Solutions enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology in hopes […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 Members of both chambers of Congress this week debated the potential effects of the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants on ratepayers during two separate hearings. The regulation in question, dubbed the “Clean Power Plan,” would require states to develop action […]

GHG Monitor 6/26/2015 ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT California-based engineering firm Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been selected to provide technical advisory services to the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Office of Carbon Capture and Storage. The two-year contract will be fulfilled from the company’s London office. Under the contract, Jacobs Group will review […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/5/2015 The Environmental Protection Agency early this week sent its proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review. The rule, which would require states to develop plans to meet federally set emissions reduction goals, was initially due to […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 Appropriators from both chambers of Congress this week reported out interior fiscal year 2016 funding bills that include policy riders placing restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. The Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies funding bill includes a provision that […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 Loan guarantees awarded through the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office’s Title XVII solicitations will serve to bring pilot stage technologies to a point of development where government funding is no longer needed, officials from the Loan Program Office said this week at a briefing hosted by the United […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 The deployment of carbon capture and storage at a large scale is imperative in meeting global climate goals, according to a report released this week by the International Energy Agency. The report addresses what will have to be done to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C. To reach […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz voiced support for the development of carbon capture and storage as a means to ensure a role for fossil fuel use in a low-carbon future this week during a presentation at the Energy Information Agency’s annual conference. Earlier this year DOE choose to pull […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 The European Union, through a number of policy, investment and coordination efforts, must work to accelerate the adoption of carbon capture and storage for the technology to contribute to larger climate goals, according to a report released this week by the University of Leeds, the London School of Economics […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 The United Kingdom would benefit from boosting efforts to increase the use of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in the North Sea, according to a report released this week by Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, an independent academic and applied research partnership of British Geological Survey, Heriot-Watt University, University of […]

GHG Monitor 6/19/2015 ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Plans for Royal Dutch Shell’s Peterhead carbon capture and storage project were given the approval of the Aberdeenshire Council this week. The Peterhead project will retrofit CCS technology onto a 385 MW portion of an existing gas-fired power plant in Scotland, transporting the CO2 via the existing Goldeneye […]