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MARCH 11, 2020

This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2021

This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains. There will not be sufficient supply of very low-GHG biofuels, biogas, and e-fuels to decarbonize internal combustion engine vehicles, according to the ICCT. Source: The ICCT.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. The CO 2 emissions from burning this coal will also decline by 50%.

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Coal 2011 Global Emissions 357

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The contract is expected to make Air France KLM DGF’s largest European airline customer and lays the groundwork for expansion of this commercial relationship as DGF scales up production at the Louisiana and additional planned SAF production plants to be located in the United States and beyond.

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France Fuel Louisiana Water 426

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MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. —Dr Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The United States imports more than than 80% of its REE demand from offshore suppliers. Similarly, for at least 30 of the 35 CMs, the United States imports more than half its consumption, with no domestic onshore production of 14 CMs. 10% of projected future US demand (10,000 t/yr) by 2035.

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Waste United States Coal Wind 170

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MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The biggest drop came from the United States, where carbon dioxide emissions fell 3%, or 160 million tonnes, while the economy grew by 1.6%.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

This critical gap in the supply chain provides an entry point for both mined and recycled battery materials, creates supply chain resilience, and adds to the overall value chain for the electric vehicle sector. Demonstrations of domestic separation and production of battery-grade materials from unconventional domestic sources.

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Battery Batteries Production Energy Storage 199

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

While the new power station will supply 260% more power than the coal plant it replaces, key air emissions will be reduced by approximately 97%. The Hummel Generating Station will also use 97% less water for cooling purposes than the retired coal-fired Sunbury plant.

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Coal Gas Pennsylvania Conversion 150

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APRIL 7, 2021

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts an increase in demand for petroleum products during the 2021 summer driving season as the impacts of COVID-19 diminish in the United States. EIA expects the retail price of regular-grade gasoline in the United States will average $2.78 gal last summer.

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2019 Fuel Coal 2020 186

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Sasol recently signed a joint venture agreement with Australia-based Origin Energy Limited for the purposes of exploring for coal bed methane (CBM) in Botswana. However, CBM accounts for approximately 10% of total natural gas produced in the United States and makes up most of Australia’s natural gas supply.

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Botswana Coal Energy Africa 199

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MARCH 18, 2009

Peabody Energy has entered into long-term coal supply agreements for more than 90 million tons of coal, which it says will now allow development of the Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County, Indiana. Peabody Energy is the world’s largest private-sector coal company, with 2008 sales of 256 million tons and $6.6

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MAY 25, 2022

Sparkz will be focused on creating a strong and diverse workforce capable of competing against foreign batteries made in China and securing the supply chain. This agreement is a win-win for the laid-off coal miners who will work in this facility, their families and their communities. Earlier post.).

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West Virginia America Virginia Battery 199

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the US. .

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Coal Energy Illinois CO2 186

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

entered into a three-year supply agreement with The Chemours Company to acquire a minimum of 2,500 tons per year of natural monazite sands, one of the highest-grade rare earth element (REE) minerals in the world. Energy Fuels Inc. This REE product will be ready for REE separation, which is the next step in producing usable REE products.

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Utah Commercial Energy Fuel 417

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

In the United States, most of the changes in energy-related CO 2 emissions have been in the power sector. In 2016, natural gas generation surpassed coal as the largest source of electricity generation. Source: US EIA, US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions , 2017.

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JULY 8, 2020

million pounds of coal. is one of the largest supply chain services leaders, providing grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores and chain restaurants throughout the United States. million miles or burning 1.3 The difference is clear. —Dan James.

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Electric Electrical Store Diesel 269

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Genscape reported that January 2013 coal-fired power generation in the US surged 8.9% Both coal and gas-fired generation supplied the additional power needed for this increased demand with gas increasing its output by 1.7% Coal and gas had equal power sector output levels in April of last year. above January 2012 levels.

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Coal 2012 Gas Price 210

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APRIL 18, 2013

To illustrate this inertia, the report, Tracking Clean Energy Progress , introduced the Energy Sector Carbon Intensity Index (ESCII), which shows how much carbon dioxide is emitted, on average, to provide a given unit of energy. The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s.

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation 265

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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Coal MIT Climate Global 247

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JANUARY 11, 2023

EIA expects crude oil prices to decrease through 2023 and 2024, even as petroleum consumption increases, largely because growth in crude oil production in the United States and abroad will continue to increase over the next two years. Areas of uncertainty include Russian oil supply and OPEC production.

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Oil Prices Oil Global Price 210

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

The report underlines concerns about the stability of global energy markets in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and follows a decision by several countries including the United States, Japan and India to release strategic petroleum reserves to cool prices.

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Price Oil Asia Gas 416

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JULY 7, 2020

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline as planned was a 600-mile underground natural gas transmission line meant to deliver new, lower-cost supplies of natural gas to public utilities in Virginia and North Carolina. The $8-billion project is a partnership between the regional energy companies Dominion Energy and Duke Energy. ACP construction map.

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Energy North Carolina Montana Virginia 221

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The decline of coal use in the European Union and United States is overshadowed by surging natural gas and oil use around the world, according to the researchers. Although still a major factor in global emissions, coal has taken a hit, with global usage down 0.9% Coal use should drop a further 10% in the E.U.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change 195

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MAY 21, 2012

Overview of the Bluegas catalytic coal methanation process. billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. Click to enlarge. pure methane).

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Coal Gas Purchase Energy 225

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JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. The increased demand is being met largely by petroleum reserves, which are located outside of the United States.

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By the early 1920s, the nation had several methods of transforming solid coal and natural gas into liquid fuels and they were improved until Germany could produce enough to help offset the spiking demand ahead of the Second World War and the mechanization of its military. By 1944, Allied forces had cut the majority of Germany’s supply lines.

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Fuel Gasoline-Electric Coal Gasoline 105

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Dynamic Fuels, LLC and Mansfield Oil Company have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corporation, one of the US’ largest transporters of coal and industrial products. Norfolk Southern is pleased to be the first fleet user of renewable diesel in the United States. Earlier post.)

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Renewable Diesel Fleet Supplies 210

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JULY 15, 2010

The announcement comes on the heels of Accelergy’s collaboration with the United States Air Force, which is currently conducting tests on the company’s fuels for application as 100% non-petroleum based synthetic jet fuel. Earlier post.). The Alliance expects to complete the study in three to four months.

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Pennsylvania Grant Coal Carbon 210

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

President Joe Biden and the White House will announce major investments to expand the domestic critical minerals supply chain later today. The plans intend to break the United States’ dependence on China while boosting sustainable practices.

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Supplies America General Motors Minnesota 83

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APRIL 20, 2018

Some water resources also flow up to energy resources (petroleum, biomass, natural gas, and coal). Policy intended to advance the security, affordability and sustainability of energy and water can occur at the federal, regional, state and local level. coal, natural gas, geothermal and nuclear) into electricity.

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Water Energy Coal Gas-Electric 231

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

billion investment (100% basis) to continue production at its Kennecott copper operation in the United States. The outlook for copper is attractive, with strong growth in demand driven by its use in electric vehicles and renewable power technologies, and declining grades and closures at existing mines impacting supply.

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Production United States North America 2020 195

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JULY 25, 2013

However, fossil fuels continue to supply nearly 80% of world energy use through 2040. Natural gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel, as global supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane increase. per year over the projection period, but remain a relatively minor share of total liquids supply through 2040.

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2010 Transportation Fuel Energy 317

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

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APRIL 15, 2019

For example, states in the western US (WUS) generally produce a larger fraction of their electricity from renewable and/or “emission-free” sources (i.e., coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Summer fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) increases on average and largest in areas with increased coal-fired power generation demands.

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Conversion Jordan Ozone Coal 281

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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