Coal Plants Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:42:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 German Coal and Gas-fired Plants Shut Down as Electricity Prices Drop https://www.greenoptimistic.com/german-coal-and-gas-fired-plants-shut-down-as-electricity-prices-drop-20130819/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/german-coal-and-gas-fired-plants-shut-down-as-electricity-prices-drop-20130819/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:42:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40803 RWE, one of the leading electricity and gas companies in Europe, has recently announced their plans to close down some of their gas and coal-fired power plants with up to 3.1 GW of generated capacity. As a main reason for this, the company outlines the drop in electricity prices due to the growing number of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/german-coal-and-gas-fired-plants-shut-down-as-electricity-prices-drop-20130819/feed/ 0 40803 Environmental Regulations Will Force More US Coal Plants to Retire https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26594 The US Power Grid is supported by a number of power-generation technologies, coal, oil, wind, hydro, nuclear, to name a few. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 3.9 million gigawatt-hours [Gwh] of electricity was generated by all US power plants in 2009. Close to 1.8 million GWh of that electricity was produced by […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/feed/ 1 26594 Green Power Express Electricity Superhighway Project in Development https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-power-express-superhighway-20090626/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-power-express-superhighway-20090626/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:58:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3783 In order to satisfy energy needs for people in the Upper Midwest of US, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a green energy project. The green power superhighway(around 3,000 miles) will deliver energy to consumers in and around Chicago, Minneapolis and other load centers.

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