6Jan

Thar coal to generate 10,000 MW by 2020: Ebad

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Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan said that the government had devised a plan to generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity from Thar coal by 2020.

The federal government had been approached for laying a transmission line to take the electricity from Thar field to the national grid, he said while presiding over a meeting on Thar coal at the Governor’s House Thursday. He said installation of transmission network is the integral part of the plan which should be ready by the time power projects are ready to generate electricity from Thar coal.

The Governor pointed out that Thar coal would be utilised to make Pakistan self-sufficient in power generation to strengthen economy and make this area the hub of the petro-chemical industry.

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2Jan

Indian generator Essar Energy to build eight coal-fired power plants

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An energy company listed on the London Stock Exchange is planning to spend up to an estimated $6bn (£3.8bn) building eight coal-fired power stations that could add tens of millions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.

Essar Energy has just brought online the first part of the 1,200MW Salaya 1 plant in Gujarat on the west coast of India and says this and other stations are needed to counter power shortages. The move comes after countries around the world met in Durban, South Africa, this month to try to hammer out a new climate change treaty to cut global CO2 emissions.

Britain is introducing cleaner fuels and phasing out its old coal-fired power stations while saying that new ones would need carbon capture and storage schemes attached. But a spokesman for Essar, which is listed on the FTSE 100 but operates largely in India, said its customers on the subcontinent could not afford the extra costs associated with subsidising cleaner technologies.

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19Jul

Coal to Lead U.S. Energy Mix Even as Many Older Plants Convert to Natural Gas

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Coal to Lead U.S. Energy Mix Even as Many Older Plants Convert to Natural Gas

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According to a recent Black & Veatch survey of electric utilities, coal will remain part of the overall electric energy for some time to come, even though a number of older coal burning plants can expect to be retired. As coal-burning plants are made more efficient or converted to natural gas, significant increases in utility pricing should be expected over the coming years.

A large number of older coal plants will quite burning coal in favor of using natural gas. “We judge that 60 megawatts of smaller, older less efficient coal plants will be shut down over the next 10 years,” Dean Oskvig, Black & Veatch’s CEO, said in a recent interview. “It isn’t cost-effective to retrofit these plants.”

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15Jul

Andhra Pradesh at the forefront of Indian ‘coal rush’

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Energy generated from new coal-power stations in this single state could eclipse emissions from an entire country

A single Indian state is to build a new fleet of coal-power stations that could make it one of the world’s top 20 emitters of carbon emissions – on a par with countries such as Spain or Poland. The proposed coal plants in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh are part of a wider Indian “coal rush” to bring power to the country’s hundreds of millions living without electricity. They face opposition from local people and environmental NGOs who warn of farmland being turned over to opencast mines and coasts being threatened with pollution from ports that will handle coal.

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