What is New in The Power Industry?
(as of 11/2001)

• Conference on Gasification Technologies 2001
• Conference: Vision for the 21^st Century
• Coal continues to play an important role in the US
• Costs of FGDs down to $100 per kW
• CFB repowering in Poland enters third phase
• Pegasus Technologies Inc acquires optimization software from Pavillion and Ultramax for the power generation market
• DuPont and Marubeni Execute First UK Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trade
• Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Symposium, Aug, 2001
• Dutch ERU-PT awards first JI contracts
• MIT forms Lab for Energy and Environment
• FGD is being installed at Kemerkoy, Turkey
• Developments in supercritical power plant technology
• Misc. IGCC news
• New coal-fired plant announcements in the US 
• Cogeneration/District heating Utilize Clean Coal and Biomass Technologies
• Joint Implementation District Heating in Romania 
• Coal Ash Newsletter Launched in India
• China is emerging as a key coal exporter
• Shanghai Symposium on Coal-Bed Methane
• Conference on CO2 trading opportunities associated with coal bed methane
• US DOE funds new projects on CO2 capture and sequestration
• Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Test Underway at Reclaimed Mine Site
• US DOE Researchers Turning Greenhouse Gas Into Geologically-Stable Mineral
• South Africa/CFB Feasibility Study

• Czech Republic/Waste-to-Energy Feasibility Study

• Conference on “zero-emissions technologies”

• The Netherlands signed the first Joint Implementation carbon contracts with Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic

• EPRI Study Reveals Economic Loss of Power Outages and Disturbances

• Conference probes issues related to lignite and low rank coal-firing

• Sulfur and particulate reduction experiences from Hong Kong and India

• Significant FGD market may be developing in India
• Bush’s Energy Policy has a strong clean coal component
• Another IGCC plant announcement
• CO2 Storage and Sequestration
• Announcements of IGCC Plants
• Gas Transportation Infrastructure Developments
• Gas Turbine Market
• Superconductor cable undergoes test in Detroit
• AEP is testing a new battery
• U.S. Natural Gas Markets: Recent Trends and Prospects for the Future
• Country Analysis Briefs
• Rehabilitation of Power Plant in China
• Resurging of coal in the US market
• EU supports ultra-supercritical power technology
• Orimulsion Experience in Italy
• Global Signs Agreement for World's Largest Petcoke IGCC Project
• Cofiring of coal and biomass
• EU Launches Two New Projects on CO₂ Sequestration
• US DOE Ocean CO₂ Sequestration Workshop
• Developments in Clean Coal Technologies
• Neural Network-based Optimization software used for reducing emissions and increase plant efficiency
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells completes demonstration in the Netherlands
• Developments in Distributed Generation and Renewable Technologies
• BP Amoco has been selected by China for the Guangdong LNG Project
• Interest increasing in coal-fired power plants in the U.S.
• Interest in CO₂ capture and sequestration is increasing
• United Nations report spells out geographical risks from global warming
• Developments on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in Europe
• US DOE provides grants for development of gas-fired reciprocating engines
• The first commercial wave power station
• CMS Energy announces greenhouse gas reduction project in Equitorial Guinea

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