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Largest Biomass Gasification plant to be built in Finland
Finland announced the construction of the largest biomass gasification plant with a total capacity of 140 MW running mainly on forest residues for fuel. It will be situated next to a coal fired power plant and is planned to be operational by end of 2012.
read more... 26/10/2011
Cockenzie coal-fired plant to be substituted by gas
The Scottish government has given the green light to build a new gas-fired power station at Cockenzie, in East Lothian, Scotland.
read more... 06/10/2011
Natural gas versus coal: UK Gas demand 2 % down this winter
According to the estimations of National Grid, the UK network operator, the British gas demand will decline by 2 % this winter, as the power plants prefer cheaper coal to produce electricity instead of natural gas, even if the gas fired plants eliminate less carbon emissions.
read more... 30/09/2011
Booming UK wind power to rival gas and coal operators
UK wind power capacity is expected to sharply increase by late 2012, up 50% to 8,500 MW, reaching about 13% of total installed capacity according to green energy industry group RenewableUK. As a result, gas and coal plants margins may suffer from high wind production over the next three years.
read more... 28/09/2011
Coal to become more expensive than solar energy
According to some recent reports published by a Chinese blog and European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) the solar power could become much cheaper than the traditional conservative coal by 2015, claiming that parts of Europe could see solar reach parity with coal by 2013.
read more... 08/09/2011