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#JSW starts building a 1.6 GW USC #coal-fired power plant in West Bengal (#India) #energysky

JSW starts building a 1.6 GW U...

#CIL sets up JV to develop a 1.6 GW #coal-fired power plant in Jharkhand (#India) #energysky

CIL sets up JV to develop a 1....

Helen shuts down the last active #coal-fired #power plant in #Finland #energysky

Helen shuts down the last acti...

JSW Energy receives approval to acquire a 3.6 GW #coal-fired plant in central #India #energysky

JSW Energy receives approval t...

#US Duke Energy gets approvals to replace two #coal-fired units (1,360 MW) #energysky

US Duke Energy gets approvals ...

#India adds 4 GW of new #coal-fired capacity in 2024 #energysky

India adds 4 GW of new coal-fi...

In a #Cleveland suburb, this old #CoalPlant will soon be replaced by a massive #SolarFarm

Inside Climate News
July 26, 2024

"#CoalFired power plant that started running more than a century ago is about to get a long-overdue retirement, and its electricity will be replaced by a solar farm and a #BatteryStorage system on an existing #brownfield.

"The project in #PainesvilleOhio, a suburb of Cleveland, is one of about two dozen clean energy and emissions-reduction initiatives across the country that are sharing $4.3 billion in funding announced on Monday by the #BidenAdministration.

"It was a happy day for Doug Lewis, Painesville’s city manager. He and his colleagues have been considering how to close the city-owned power plant and replace it with a cleaner alternative. They also have wanted to redevelop the site of a long-shuttered #chemical factory near the shores of Lake Erie.

"The federal government will now pay about $80 million to install solar and batteries on the former factory land and to beautify the rest of the brownfield by planting a #meadow of #wildflowers and constructing a #BikeTrail. The trail will provide a connection between Painesville and a regional trail that runs along the lake.

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"The solar farm will have capacity of 35 megawatts and the battery storage system will have capacity of 10 megawatts. It will be capable of running for three hours at that level before recharging.

"The new construction will be on land that once was home to the Diamond Shamrock Corp. chemical plant, which operated there from 1912 to 1977 and occupied about 1,100 acres. The plant’s products included baking soda, chromium compounds, and hydrochloric and sulfuric acids.

"Since the site closed, the community and the federal government have gone through the slow and trying process of removing #pollutants to make it site safe for redevelopment.

The current project can serve as a case study for many things, including regional cooperation. Painesville, in Lake County, worked with officials in neighboring Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland city government to file an application with the federal government that included #RenewableEnergy projects for all of them."

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#Nuclear not the solution #Australia needs, says electricity grid chief

AEMO determined the best and lowest-cost pathway through energy transition was to build a grid dominated by #renewables, firmed up with #battery and #hydropower storage, and backed up by gas-powered generation

Nick Toscano
By Nick Toscano
July 16, 2024

"Australia’s energy market operator has dismissed claims that #nuclear is the answer to the power grid’s challenges, warning the technology is expensive and cannot be developed in time to replace rapidly retiring #coalfired generators.

"Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has revived Australia’s long-running climate wars ahead of the next federal election, mounting attacks against the government’s renewable energy rollout plans and calling for seven #NuclearPower stations to be built by 2050.

"However, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) chief executive Daniel Westerman cautioned on Tuesday that nuclear was a 'comparatively expensive' power source and would take too long to develop in Australia, rendering it an impractical solution to the electricity grid’s most pressing needs.

"'Even on the most optimistic outlook, nuclear power won’t be ready in time for the exit of Australia’s coal-fired power stations,' Westerman said. 'And the imperative to replace that retiring generation is with us now.'

"Australia’s coal-fired power stations, the backbone of the electricity sector for more than half a century, are increasingly bringing forward closure dates as their ageing equipment becomes less reliable and less competitive against cheaper r#enewables.

"At least half of the 14 remaining #coal plants on the eastern seaboard are scheduled to shut before 2035."

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"Westerman, speaking at the Australian Clean Energy Summit on Tuesday, pointed to research from the CSIRO and AEMO that found nuclear was one of the most expensive forms of electricity.

"That report concluded that Australia’s first nuclear plant would cost up to $16 billion, and could not be operational until at least 2040, despite the Coalition promising it would be ready in the 2030s."

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/nuclear-not-the-solution-australia-needs-says-electricity-grid-chief-20240716-p5ju4g.html

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