Tag archive for ‘coal’
Antelope Valley Station: Clean coal technology
Submitted photo: Each of the twin Antelope Valley Station units has the capacity to produce 450 megawatts of electricity. Unit 1, right, came online in 1984. Unit 2 came online in 1986. By Debora Dragseth For the Tribune Daryl Hill’s smile is as sunny and welcoming as the quintessential North Dakota morning. It’s been 33 [...]
From the coal mine to the light bulb
Like many of North Dakota’s other economic activities, electrical generation depends on what the earth yields. In the case of lignite coal, there is 800 years’ worth of the resource to be harvested from underneath western North Dakota’s soil. “Here in this 40-mile radius is the energy heart of North Dakota,” said Basin Electric Power [...]
July Energy Updates
Pipeline study says oil should go through ND A new 169-mile pipeline system running north into Canada has been recommended as the preferred means of transporting crude oil from west-central North Dakota to one of two TransCanada/Keystone transmission pipelines. The recommendation is contained in a feasibility study, commissioned by the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, and [...]
Clean(er) Coal: What North Dakota companies are doing to achieve it
By Gwen Bristol The nation is wondering if clean coal technology is real. With more than 50 percent of the country’s electricity coming from coal, it’s no wonder that the question has come up. In the past year, the issue has been visited by prominent media businesses, including Newsweek and CBS News. Recent television advertisements [...]
The Lurgi Process
By Gwen Bristol While there are about seven coal gasification technologies developed or developing in the nation right now, the technology at the Great Plains Synfuels plant is the only one proven to work with consistently North Dakota lignite coal, according to Daryl Hill, media relations supervisor with Basin Electric Power Cooperative. The process used [...]
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