TOM LUTEY
Colstrip Power Plant operator and co-owner Talen Energy was one of 13 electricity companies who last week offered to work with President Joe Biden on a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by 2030.
Talen and the other companies suggested they could cut carbon emissions to levels equal to 20% of what pollution levels were in 2005. Reuters news service, which was given to access to the letter, reported that companies said the 2030 benchmark aligned with Bidenâs 2050 goal for decarbonizing the economy.
Talen, in an email to Lee Montana Newspapers, said the carbon reduction plans havenât involved the southeast Montana power plant in which it operates and also holds a 15% share. The company announced a $2 billion investment in renewables last week as it pivots away from coal power in the 12-state PJM energy market, which includes Pennsylvania. Colstrip isnât among Talenâs planned retirements, said Talenâs Taryne Williams, t
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When the Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan opened the world’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage operation in 2014, it was supposed to save a million tonnes of carbon pollution each year.
Instead, seven years later, the $1.35-billion project the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding has captured just four million tonnes, according to an announcement last month by its operator, the provincial utility SaskPower.
SaskPower employees and others have shown in a research paper how the carbon-capture facility “experienced unforeseen operational challenges and design oversights,” which hurt its performance and reliability.
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SALIGUMA, Indonesia, April 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C utting through the glassy water of a mangrove-fringed inlet on the east coast of Indonesia’s Siberut island, Mateus Sabojiat and Anjelina Sadodolu arrived home by canoe to Saliguma village.
Back in their house, Sadodolu lit a wood fire to boil water before her husband left for work at the local government office.
“The electric power is on only when it is time to sleep,” said Sadodolu.
The couple in their forties, who have six children, live just a few hundred metres from Indonesia’s first power plant designed to be fuelled by bamboo, one of three such facilities built to bring electricity to isolated villages in Siberut.