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Fewer coal plant closures may result from pending Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules than previously estimated, says a new analysis from ICF International.

Combined with delays in federal greenhouse gas regulation and new expectations of rising natural gas prices, the latest estimates cut ICFI’s projection of forced coal closures from 50 gigawatts to 39 GW. Of that, 17 GW are coal plant closures already announced by operators. Keep reading →


At the end of last week’s American Public Power Association (APPA) annual conference in Washington, DC, which drew over 1,500 registrants, Breaking Energy’s Margaret Ryan spoke with APPA’s President and CEO, Mark Crisson.

He spoke candidly about some of the greatest challenges facing power companies, including increasing EPA regulations that may force drastic changes in the coal industry, challenges in developing new infrastructure and the constraints of restructuring power markets in RTO regions. Keep reading →


Brown may be the new green.

Dominion Virgina Power wants to expanding its efforts to swap coal for biomass, animal and plant waste matter. Keep reading →

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In the last few years, the world has seen a steady increase in renewable energy production and consumption. Key to this increase has been the increased flow of private and government capital to these projects. Keep reading →

Boosting employment in manufacturing in the US has developed as one of the leading arguments proponents of renewable energy use when discussing the sector’s advantages. As other countries have invested huge sums of government money in their renewable fuel industry, including China, the US federal government remains under pressure to do the same despite sustained and serious budget challenges and constrained spending.



Broadwind Energy
, a major producer of wind energy components, is an example of the future that supporters of renewable energy production in the US would find encouraging. Keep reading →


Despite a storm of press this week on delays in an EPA greenhouse gas report, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will maintain its May 26, 2012 deadline for releasing final environmental standards on polluting gases blamed for global warming.

“EPA has engaged in an extensive and open public process to gather the latest and best information prior to proposing carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, one of the largest stationary sources of carbon pollution,” the EPA said in a statement to AOL Energy. Keep reading →


A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule is either a rush to regulate or chickens coming home to roost. But it’s certainly going to raise your electric bill.

EPA’s most expensive power plant clean air initiative ever is scheduled for a final decision on implementation in November. Opponents say its hasty enactment will raise electricity prices 20-25% in coal-dependent regions like the Midwest and South. Proponents say the rule was authorized in 1990 and has been in process since 2000, giving industry decades to prepare, and areas with big costs got two decades of cheap power by avoiding pollution controls. Keep reading →

The massive floods in the Midwest in the past month have been devastating in many ways, but one thing Midwesterners won’t have to worry about is generating electricity from their coal-fired power plants. Inventories at plants along the river are high, limiting the impact from potential interuptions to barging down the river from coal producing states like West Virginia and Indiana to coal consuming states like Kentucky and Tennessee. Keep reading →

With the publication of Power Hungry, Robert Bryce continues in his established tradition of in-depth research and bluntly presented findings. He’s not known around the Internet, or in policy circles, as weak-kneed, or easily swayed. On the policy front, Bryce doesn’t tend to mince words. He is an equal opportunity critic, pointing out the mistakes of concepts and practices on all sides of the political spectrum.

Review of: Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
By: Robert Bryce, Managing Editor, Energy Tribune
Public Affairs, 2010, 394 pages
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