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Coal Fired Power Plants – Closures

Impact of EPA’s Regulatory Assault on Power Plants: New Regulations to Take More than 72 GW of Electricity Generation Offline and the Plant Closing Announcements Keep Coming…

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them…”– Barack Obama speaking to San Francisco Chronicle, January 2008

More than 72 gigawatts (GW) of electrical generating capacity have already, or are now set to retire because of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations. The regulations causing these closures include the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (colloquially called MATS, or Utility MACT)[1], proposed Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)[2], and the proposed regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.

Collected links, articles, webpages about Coal Fired Power Plants & concerning webpages

Researchers

Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum	http://www.apgtf-uk.com
Australian Coal Association Research Programme (ACARP)	http://www.acarp.com.au/index800.shtml
British Coal Utilisation Research Association	http://www.bcura.org
Centre for Low Emission Technology	http://www.clet.net
COAL21	http://www.coal21.com.au
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	http://www.csiro.au
Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development (CCSD)	http://www.ccsd.biz
Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)	http://www.co2crc.com.au
COORETEC	http://www.cooretec.de
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)	http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt
European Sixth Framework Programme	http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6
IEA Clean Coal Centre	http://www.iea-coal.org.uk
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme	http://www.ieagreen.org.uk
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)	http://www.netl.doe.gov
Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal & Steel	http://cordis.europa.eu/coal-steel-rtd
UK Energy Research Partnership	http://www.energyresearchpartnership.org

Statistical Sources
BP Statistical Review of World Energy	http://www.bp.com/subsection.do?categoryId=95&contentId=2006480
IEA Coal Statistics	http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/prodresult.asp?PRODUCT=coal
US Department of Energy	http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelcoal.html

International
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group	http://www.ewg.apec.org
Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum	http://www.cslforum.org
IEA-Energy Diversification–Coal	http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/
International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy	http://www.iphe.net

Governmental
ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE)	http://www.aseanenergy.org/
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)	http://www.abare.gov.au/
Department of Industry, Science and Resources (Australia)	http://www.industry.gov.au
European Commission (General Directorate for Energy)	http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport
Geoscience Australia	http://www.ga.gov.au
Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de l’Industrie (France – in French)	http://www.minefi.gouv.fr
Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (MET1 Japan)	http://www.meti.go.jp/english
Natural Resources Canada	http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/inter/index.html
UK Department of Trade and Industry	http://www.dti.gov.uk
US Department of Energy	http://www.eia.doe.gov