A solar farm comes online on a coal ash landfill site in West Virginia
Electrek
OCTOBER 21, 2024
megawatt (MW) solar farm just came online in Rivesville, West Virginia, on a brownfield site near a shuttered coal-burning power station.
A solar farm comes online on a coal ash landfill site in West Virginia
Baua Electric
OCTOBER 21, 2024
megawatt (MW) solar farm just came online in Rivesville, West Virginia, on a brownfield site near a shuttered coal-burning power station. Fort Martin is still a working coal plant, and FirstEnergy sadly has no intention whatsoever of retiring it anytime soon.) Photo: FirstEnergy A 5.5-megawatt
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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. from coal. West Virginia. West Virginia. Natural gas.
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Ramaco Carbon partnering with ORNL on new processes to make graphite from coal
Green Car Congress
APRIL 6, 2023
Ramaco Carbon is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop new, large-scale processes for making graphite from coal. The conversion of coal to higher value materials, such as graphene, graphite or carbon nanotubes, is of high interest, and a number of researchers have proposed processes.
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Extracting rare earth elements from coal with plasma assist
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. However, domestic coal is of interest as a potentially abundant and easily accessible REE source in the US.
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A former West Virginia coal ash landfill is going to be replaced by a solar farm
Electrek
AUGUST 18, 2022
which serves most of northern West Virginia, is going to repurpose a former coal ash landfill for a utility-scale solar farm. The post A former West Virginia coal ash landfill is going to be replaced by a solar farm appeared first on Electrek. Electric utility FirstEnergy Corp.,
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EGEB: Can coal state West Virginia become the ‘poster child’ for clean energy?
Electrek
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): There are currently more than $127 million in clean energy projects in West Virginia. Dominion Energy proposes the largest solar and storage expansion in Virginia’s history. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. appeared first on Electrek.
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OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2023
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. Coal mine drainage (CMD) impairs tens of thousands of kilometers of U.S. CMD, coal mine drainage; TEP, trap-extract-precipitate. —Miranda et al. Miranda et al. —Jeff Bielicki.
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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9
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West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on a former coal mining site
Electrek
APRIL 6, 2022
West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on the site of the 5,800-acre Hobet Mine, one of the state’s largest former coal mines, which went bankrupt in 2015. The post West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on a former coal mining site appeared first on Electrek.
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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.
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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?
EV Adoption
MAY 25, 2021
One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. Heavy Coal Using States Accounted for Only 10% of EV Sales in 2020. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true.
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DOE invests $17.4M in projects to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 17, 2017
The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four projects to move on to a second phase of research in their efforts to advance recovery of rare earth elements (REE) from coal and coal byproducts. The solids are from Northern Appalachian and Central Appalachian bituminous coal seams in West Virginia. Earlier post.)
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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2021
San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.
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West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2009
” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. ’ West Virginia would be much smarter to stay at the table.”
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West Virginia brings first of 5 solar farms online – why that matters
Baua Electric
JANUARY 5, 2024
The first of five planned West Virginia solar farms just came online – here’s why that’s significant for the state. 1 out of 5 new West Virginia solar farms FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a solar farm on 80 acres at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, West Virginia, north of Morgantown.
DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2020
million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding. Tetra Tech, Inc. Sharon, PA).
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EPA power to reel in coal power emissions challenged, now elevated to Supreme Court
Green Car Reports
MARCH 3, 2022
The Supreme Court is considering a case that challenges the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal power plants.
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Virginia is getting a 764 MW bump in solar power capacity
Baua Electric
APRIL 1, 2024
Photo: Dominion Energy Virginia Virginia has approved over a dozen new solar projects that will significantly boost Dominion Energy’s clean energy capacity. The construction will support more than 1,600 jobs and generate more than $570 million in economic benefits across Virginia. million homes at peak output.
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TransGas and SK EC team on West Virginia coal-to-gasoline project
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Ltd (SKE&C) leading to engineering, procurement and construction of its first US coal-to-gasoline plant—Adams Fork Energy—to be located in Mingo County, West Virginia. The Adams Fork Energy project will convert regional coal into premium-grade gasoline, producing 18,000 barrels per day (756,000 gallons US, 2.86
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DOE to award $4M to 9 projects to recover rare earth elements from coal and by-products
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.
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DOE Lab, partners find high concentrations of rare earth elements in American coal basins
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region.
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New England to become the second coal-free region in the US
Baua Electric
MARCH 29, 2024
Photo: PSNH/Flickr Both of New Hampshire’s coal plants are shutting, making New England the second coal-free region in the US. The Bow, New Hampshire-based power station has committed to retiring the coal-burning units at Merrimack and Schiller Stations in New Hampshire, by 2028 and 2025, respectively. Get started here. –ad*
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Supreme Court curbs EPA authority to regulate CO2 from power plants
Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2022
The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has ruled in West Virginia v. The issue here is whether restructuring the Nation’s overall mix of electricity generation, to transition from 38% coal to 27% coal by 2030, can be the “best system of emission reduction” within the meaning of Section 111. —Opinion in West Virginia v.
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DOE Regional Partner Initiates Coal Seam CO2 Injection and Methane Recovery Study in Virginia
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
A US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting carbon dioxide into coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to determine the feasibility of CO 2 storage in unmineable coal seams and the potential for enhanced coalbed methane recovery. feet in thickness. trillion cubic feet.
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DOE selects 10 projects to enhance research into recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 3, 2015
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust. Description.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2016
In a cost-shared program supported by the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) of the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA), a team at Battelle is demonstrating a new, hybrid, direct coal-to-liquids process for producing jet fuel using biomass-derived coal solvents.
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One of the Largest Climate-Tech Workforce Partnerships in US History, + More EV & Battery News
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 26, 2022
In good green economic news, electric battery maker SPARKZ and the United Mine Workers coal union have announced a labor-management memorandum of understanding for a planned factory in West Virginia that intends to put out-of-work coal miners back to work.
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US Coal companies merge: Murray Energy acquires controlling interest in Foresight Energy GP LLC for $1.395B
Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2015
As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).
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Successful demonstration of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology for recovering fine coal particles from waste slurries
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2011
coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. US coal producers each year discard large amounts of moisture-laden fines (small, coarse coal particles) that are typically deposited in containment ponds or impoundments as a slurry. Coal recovery from the sludge was greater than 97%.
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186 Groundbreaking set for TransGas Coal-to-Liquids project
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2011
The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority (MCRA) and its partner TransGas Development Systems, LLC will conduct a groundbreaking ceremony on 9 May 2011, to launch the construction phase of the Mingo County coal-to-liquids project, to be called Adams Fork Energy. Earlier post.).
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207 Battery startup Sparkz, United Mine Workers of America announce labor-management agreement for W Va Gigafactory
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2022
Sparkz announced in March it will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize their zero-cobalt battery which will initially employ 350 workers and could grow to as many as 3,000. This agreement is a win-win for the laid-off coal miners who will work in this facility, their families and their communities.
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West Virginia Univ. receives $1.15M grant for second hydrogen production-fueling station in state; focus on fossil-fuel-to-hydrogen
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium at West Virginia University (WVU) has received a $1.15-million By building and operating a new hydrogen fueling station in Morgantown, West Virginia University will demonstrate running automobiles on hydrogen fuel made from coal-powered electricity.
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NETL says rare earth recovery projects meeting and exceeding expectations
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ( earlier post ) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.
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WVU opens new research facility to extract valuable rare earth elements from acid mine drainage
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2018
West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute and principal investigator on the project, is an expert in acid mine drainage.
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170 Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.
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ARPA-E awards $42M to 12 projects for advanced EV batteries; EVs4ALL program
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2023
Virginia Tech will develop EV batteries using cobalt- and nickel-free cathodes, fast-charging and all-weather electrolytes, and coal-derived fast-charging and high-capacity anodes. Additionally, using a coal/carbon/silicon anode will resolve environmental issues of coal waste and reduce anode cost by 75% compared with a graphite anode.
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Sen. Manchin, whose state was built by unions, joins Toyota to oppose union-made EV credit
Electrek
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin – whose state’s banner industry, coal mining, has been largely unionized and been central to the US labor movement since soon after its inception – today called the proposed $4,500 union-made EV tax credit “wrong” and “not American.” more… The post Sen.
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DOE Selects Seven Projects for University Coal Research Program
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2010
The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.
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218 DOE to Build Hydrogen Fuel Test Facility at West Virginia Airport
Green Car Congress
MARCH 26, 2009
The fuel will be used by the airport’s operations and the 130 th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. NETL envisions that in the long term, hydrogen will be produced from coal. Alternatively, the electricity for the hydrolysis of water will come from coal-based power generation.
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Dominion Energy & Duke Energy cancel $8B Atlantic Coast Pipeline due to delays and cost uncertainty
Green Car Congress
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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No More Leg Day: South Carolina Squat Ban Goes Into Effect Soon
The Truth About Cars
MAY 2, 2024
South Carolina now joins North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia with the ban. People still alter diesel trucks to “roll coal,” and loud exhausts – not always a bad thing – remain a problem for some communities.
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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2015
Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, North Carolina, in February 2014. Approximately 108 million tons of coal ash are currently held in coal ash basins owned and operated by the defendants in North Carolina.
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