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Energy World December 2014

01/12/2014

This month’s cover photo looks down at the injection point for the carbon dioxide captured by SaskPower’s Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant, in Canada. For the full story on the opening of the plant, see the November issue of Energy World. See also our CCS progress story on page 6 of this issue.

The ‘Aquistore’ injection point, located around 2 km west of the coal-fired power station, will inject the gas 3.4 km underground into a sandstone foundation. A separate stream of carbon dioxide captured at Boundary Dam is also being used for enhanced oil recovery at another site.

Coal power is the subject of the first two of our series of feature articles looking at fossil fuels, starting on page 14 – the first of which takes a look at clean coal, including CCS. We then turn to shale gas on page 20, looking at the potential impacts of the divisive fuel in Europe.

Our second set of features cover renewable energy technologies, and this time we take a look at concentrating solar power and anaerobic digestion. Both technologies have the ability to provide continuous power, but are suited to very different environments.

Issue details

EW Dec 14.pdf

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Journal title: Energy World

Publisher: Energy Institute

Organisation: Energy Institute

Content in this issue:

Ofgem shortlists five new electricity interconnectors

Biopropane on the way for heating and transport?

Commercial-scale green hydrogen comes to Swindon

West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm opens in the Irish Sea

Us and China climb aboard

Electricity generation margin to fall to 4% this winter

Climate change threatens ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts’ – IPCC

European Council sets ‘flexible’ 2030 EU energy and emission targets