Coal power costs skyrocketed 28% since 2021, as aging plants and fuel get more expensive, forcing consumers to pay billions ...

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but it omits the key fact of why those Europeans so favor wood pellets over oil, natural gas or coal for heating their homes and generating their electricity. Burning wood pellets does not ...

Now, a growing renewable energy industry offers a hopeful alternative for landowners ... Amid claims that wood pellets actually emit more carbon than coal, some countries are beginning to change ...

Dozens of students and Chapel Hill residents marched Monday afternoon, calling on the University of North Carolina to stop burning coal at its ... also a predominantly Black community is very ...

“Renewable, storable fuels like torrefied wood pellets are a promising alternative to coal that could keep the lights on in dry years while contributing towards our goal of net-zero emissions by ...

Tammy Grubb [email protected] UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in ... Safer alternatives, she said, could include ...

Genesis Energy says black pellets could be an alternative fuel source for its ... generate power from several feedstocks including gas, coal, diesel and biomass, which mitigates energy scarcity ...

A half-mile from campus on West Cameron Avenue and overlooking two historically black neighborhoods ... portion of the coal. UNC has not disclosed the prices of the pellets, but court documents ...

The Miri CCGT Power Plant will be a lower-emission alternative to coal-fired power plants. The Miri CCGT Power Plant is expected to have a capacity of 500 megawatts (MW) and is intended to supply ...

Many of these are rural and majority Black neighborhoods ... The industry markets wood pellets as a "low carbon" or "carbon neutral" alternative to coal. Trees store carbon — and release ...