And powdered lignin can be added to pulverized coal for burning in power plants.
Research being done only one or two years ago are now being designed in power plants today, and we expect this to continue.
It must be burned in power plants at the mouth of the mine, yet environmentalists will oppose any expansion in coal-fired lignite plants.
Sullivan said it's important to note that overall air quality in the Northeast is improving as natural gas replaces coal in power plants.
Most of this decrease was due directly to the decreasing use of coal in power plants and the increase in combustion of clean-burning natural gas.
Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is the industry term for the computers behind the machinery in power plants, water treatment centres, traffic controls and other utilities.
Outside of oil and gas, Hunt owns stakes in power plants in the Northeast, transmission lines in Texas, including a 150 megawatt cross-border line with Mexico built in 2007.
GreatPoint relied on widely available technology wherever possible, including the fluidized-bed reactor, common in power plants across the country, in which pulverized coal is combined with oxygen so it burns more efficiently.
The total amount of coal sold to utility customers was not significantly impacted during the economic downturn as utility coal is used in power plants for generating electricity, the demand for which is largely inelastic.
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Shares in the stocks of chip-makers dropped Tuesday on news that plants in Japan are shutting down production in the wake of the earthquake last week that set off fears of nuclear leaks in power plants in the country.
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The company would also benefit if the growing interest in nuclear power plants in the U.S. comes to fruition.
Iberdrola has interests in seven nuclear power plants in Spain, while its subsidiary Scottish Power and SSE, formerly known as Scottish Hydro, are the main customer power supply companies in Scotland.
Scrubbers used in thermal power plants, for instance, require limestone to capture sulphur from their exhaust.
Priory demands that Duke's traders stick to the commodities it transports through its pipelines or generates in its power plants.
The developers will deploy the Nanosolar Utility Panel in photovoltaic power plants.
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Mr. Immelt expressed his view that it is almost impossible on a cost basis to justify investing in nuclear power plants for the future.
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This alloy isn't new--it's been used as a neutron absorber in nuclear power plants--but hafnium's use as a chip insulator required a fabrication breakthrough.
In the power plants it gives off massive greenhouse gas emissions.
They are used in nuclear power plants to detect leaks early.
Oxfam's policy adviser Tracy Carty said the MPs' decision made no sense because it would only increase the burning of harmful biofuels in UK power plants.
In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.
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Where Enron made a market in just about anything, from long-term gas supply contracts to memory chips, Priory demands that Duke's traders stick to the commodities Duke transports through its pipelines or generates in its power plants.
"It was a technical fault in one of our power plants and not in the national grid, " he told Agence France-Presse news agency.
Calpine, which operates 46 power plants and two natural gas companies in the U.S., is expected to be one of the main builders of big "baseload" power plants in California, which is suffering an energy crisis.
Environmentalists hoped the president's pledge in his recent inaugural address for increased steps in response to climate change would include expanding tougher standards in place for new power plants to those already in existence.
In contrast to most power plants, customers welcome solar in their own backyards.
Several other nuclear power plants in the area have lost external power and are relying on backup generators, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at a press conference currently in progress.
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In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
The rise of solar power in Germany is directly related to the country's phase-out of nuclear power plants -- however in Japan, the issue of nuclear power is back in the news.
The MOX facility will blend surplus weapon-grade plutonium with depleted uranium oxide to make mixed oxide fuel for use in existing nuclear power plants.
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