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Last Friday, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) released a report of the results of mixing so-called "green" hydrogen with natural gas and using the fuel to generate electricity with reduced emissions from a retrofitted General Electric combustion turbine. The experiment was conducted at NYPA’s Brentwood Power Station on Long Island. NYPA experimented with fuel
MDN has highlighted Capstone Turbine Corporation, a California company that manufactures small electric-generating plants that run on natural gas, several times in the past (see our Capstone stories here). Capstone, at some point, renamed itself. The company is now called Capstone Green Energy Corporation. Capstone announced it has secured a third order (from the same
Some 20 years ago Indeck Energy floated a plan to build an electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago. In 2016 those plans got serious (see $1B Electric Plant Planned Near Chicago, M-U Connection?). Indeck finally held an official groundbreaking ceremony in September 2019 (see Delayed Michigan Gas-Fired
On Friday, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it has selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt, combined-cycle natural gas power station (using Marcellus/Utica gas) that also uses carbon capture and storage (required window dressing in this day and age). The extremely unpopular WV Sen. Joe Manchin tried
Last December, Virginia’s newly-elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, said that as soon as he took office, he would use his executive power to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (see VA’s New Republican Gov Pledges to Cancel RGGI Carbon Tax). RGGI is nothing more than an obscene, very expensive carbon tax. However, after taking