Climate change http://www.nwenergy.org daily 1 2007-08-30T17:01:34Z FAQ: IGCC and New Coal Technologies http://www.nwenergy.org/publications/fact-sheets/coal/IGCCfaq.pdf April 2006 - Billions of dollars in federal subsidies have been and continue to be sunk into developing "clean coal" alternatives to traditional pulverized coal-burning power plants. The clean-coal technology of the moment is integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC. While IGCC has great potential, it must clear a number of technical and economic hurdles. No publisher jstanley Climate Fact Sheet 2007-08-30T21:36:58Z File New study shows that energy efficiency and renewables can slash U.S. global warming emissions http://www.nwenergy.org/news/new-study-shows-that-energy-efficiency-and-renewables-can-slash-u-s-global-warming-emissions The NW Energy Coalition, Sierra Club and other Washington state organizations have joined with the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the nation’s preeminent climate scientists in unveiling a new plan for dramatically reducing the nation’s global warming emissions... No publisher jstanley efficiency Climate Conservation Renewable 2007-08-30T21:38:22Z News Item Coalition comments on Energy Northwest’s phony ‘sequestration plan’ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/older-news-items/coalition-comments-on-energy-northwest2019s-phony-2018sequestration-plan2019 Energy Northwest, the public consortium attempting to develop a gasified coal power plant in Kalama, Wash., recently submitted to state regulators what it called a “plan” to store (sequester) the plant’s global-warming emissions. In written comments to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the NW Energy Coalition demonstrates that the so-called plan falls light years short of what state law requires... No publisher jstanley coal Climate 2007-09-14T21:57:12Z News Item NWEC Comments-Treatment of CO2 Risk in the IRP Process http://www.nwenergy.org/publications/archives/energy-policy/comments/CUB%20EMO%20NWEC%20RNP%2007-26-07%20Opening%20Comments.pdf Utility resource planning is all about risks, but each type of risk – fuel cost, load growth, hydro generation, technology change, regulatory change, etc. – has unique characteristics, and therefore calls for different treatment. Key to determining the appropriate treatment of CO2 risk and its cost in the IRP process are assumptions about its future regulatory treatment. No publisher jstanley coal Climate OR 2008-05-07T23:30:35Z File NWEC Comments-Treatment of CO2 Risk in the IRP Process http://www.nwenergy.org/policy/energy-policy/comments/CUB%20EMO%20NWEC%20RNP%2007-26-07%20Opening%20Comments.pdf Utility resource planning is all about risks, but each type of risk – fuel cost, load growth, hydro generation, technology change, regulatory change, etc. – has unique characteristics, and therefore calls for different treatment. Key to determining the appropriate treatment of CO2 risk and its cost in the IRP process are assumptions about its future regulatory treatment. No publisher jstanley coal Climate OR 2008-05-07T23:30:35Z File