Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.
Lori A. Burkhart
By Lori A. Burkhart
Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.
The nation's demand for electricity is expected to grow by over 40 percent in the next 20 years, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Meeting that need will require a great number of new generating plants. The burning question is, what will fuel these new plants?
Sarah Noecker is a consultant in the coal practice of RDI Consulting, now a part of Platts Research and Consulting.
EPA director steps down, and tells you why.
Off Peak
April 1 , 2002
I Quit!
EPA director steps down, and tells you why.
March 3, 2002
Experts debate whether Bush's Clear Skies plan on power plant emissions clears the way for better emissions technologies.
Jennifer Alvey is associate editor at Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Utilities face huge costs of complying with new EPA standards.
Richard Stavros
Frontlines
The Brink of Ruin?
We've been dumping the cost on utilities, but ground is shifting.
Susan B. Kaplan
A gas industry leader says Bush got it right, yet admits the worth of carbon abatement.
Henry R. Linden
The lawyers debated over ozone and soot, but the markets saw NOx as the "smoking gun."
Carl J. Levesque
Calif. PUC Application 99-08-022, proposed decisions by Barnett (Aug. 2, 2000), Neeper (Sept. 19, 2000), and Bilas (Nov. 6, 2000)
SIP Call in a Nutshell
Richard Stavros
Some fear NOx controls will spawn outages and higher power prices.
Utility executives say the EPA's plan to reduce ground-level ozone in the nation's eastern half by controlling emissions of nitrogen oxides in upwind states could undermine electric reliability and force power prices higher.
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