Note: Some notes have been added, via the comment field which originate from the Claverton emails, from authoritative persons, which inter alia indicate that the maintenance and operating costs for a plant such as this are slightly less than 0.4p/kWh. Background and Location Didcot A is was built as a coal fired steam power station […]
Read MoreCall for papers on Clean Fossil Fuels for Energy journal
The journal Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Energy enourages submissions on the topic of Clean Fossil Fuels. Here is the call for papers:
Read MoreCCS Carbon Capture and Storage – the facts.
Dear Oliver, You’re not alone in your scepticism! However, you’re wrong about the CO2 emissions. The reality is that coal +CCS as currently defined/mandated emits significantly less CO2 than NG CCGT without CCS (‘unabated’), because authorities in the UK (and most countries except Japan) are demanding c.90% CO2 removal from coal, whereas CCGT emits about […]
Read MoreWhat happens to wind power when there is no wind? Why it makes perfect sense that old, polluting and inefficient coal fired power stations should be retained and receive a capacity payment
This note argues that environmentalists will have to recognise that part (and a small price) of the price we pay for creating significant additional capacity of intermittent / variable renewables is the continued existence of coal fired plant, operating at a very low capacity factor. (And of course it will make us less vulnerable to […]
Read MoreGasification gets The Guardian treatment
Comments are invited on the two gasification articles found on the The Guardian website today. They seem to have been written on the basis of a Press Release, without much background checking. I don’t want a bad word said about the author, Alok Jha, who is lovely, but I really think we need to unpack […]
Read MoreUtility Industry Achievement Awards – 14 December 2009
Utility Industry Achievement Awards – 14 December 2009
The energy and utility industry’s Christmas party
The chance to:
· Network with over 1,200 key industry personnel
· Celebrate with the winners of 2009 – rewarding the best in the industry.
· Entertain your customers, reward your staff and make new contacts
· To book visit http://www.utilityweekawards.co.uk
· There’s a big name comedian, slap up dinner, entertainment, dancing, and a casino
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Chris Hodrien comments on key recent ‘maverick’ studies downgrading coal reserves estimates
Comments from Chris Hodrien on “Peak Coal” article – R Heinberg 21may07 (Energy Bulletin- Online Opinion.com Fred et al, I guess that this paper, reporting both the key recent ‘maverick’ studies downgrading coal reserves estimates (up to 5/07), has been a critical input in forming your views on likely future coal reserves. I happened to […]
Read MoreRelative / comparative costs of wind energy, nuclear energy, hydro power, coal power, natural gas, geothermal energy, and biomass
In general it can be seen that there is not a lot to choose between the cost of wind energy, and coal, gas or nuclear. PV and CSP are considerablymore expensive however.
Read MoreAre nuclear energy and wind energy fundamentally incompatible in large penetrations due to the intermittency of one and the inflexibility of the other?
Dear P I made a mistake,….. it was EDF and E.ON who made the submission. Not E.ON and National Power (who are now owned by RWE). Effectively they are saying exactly what was pointed out in the “Briefing Note” that was published in the Inst of Civils Energy Journal two years ago. I attach a […]
Read MoreWhat is the correct number to represent amount of nuclear energy produced worldwide? Discussion on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nuclear_power My numbers are not wrong, the IEA (and EIA) numbers are wrong, because they multiply them by 3. and they say so. Any property of apples and oranges can be compared, such as color, mass, size, shape, and oh yes calorie content, or energy. As much as 90% of the total energy we […]
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