Desertec to start work on first solar power plant
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Desertec, the world's most ambitious solar power project, is to start building its first power plant next year, a 500 megawatt (MW) facility in Morocco costing up to 2 billion...
View ArticleGE turbines clean the air by turning coal into synthetic gas
South Korea, despite being one of the world's top coal burning nations, is still committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. GE is contributing to South Korea's efforts by supplying technology and...
View ArticleJapan develops green technology and methods post-power crisis and disaster
Since Japan's Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the country has been in an energy crisis. All but two of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors, which supplied 30 percent of...
View ArticleShaw Group develops new dual fuel combined-cycle gas turbine plant
The Shaw Group received full notice to proceed on a new dual fuel combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant at Entergy’s Ninemile Point Steam Electric Station near New Orleans, La. In June 2011, Entergy...
View ArticleSolarReserve plans development for most ambitious solar power plant yet
With approval of the Environmental Impact Review on its 200-megawatt, two-tower Saguache Solar Energy Project, SolarReserve hopes to soon get started on a new pair of solar power tower/molten salt...
View ArticleGas Technology Institute showcases IH2 biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel...
The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel...
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