Coal may be Jurassic but technology is not
Coal’s unfortunate image as the dinosaur of power generation is not helped by the fact that the basic principles of a coal power plant have…
Articles by Toby Lockwood (ONE Team)
The Kemper County CCS project – what went wrong and what next?
A long-running saga finally came to an end this July, as the Kemper County carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility was ordered to cease operations…
A fine biomess
Old power plants switching from coal to wood has been one of the major energy trends of the decade, allowing them to avoid carbon taxes…
Talking CO2: how carbon capture and storage has refined its pitch
In most countries today, a minority of people have ever heard of carbon capture and storage, and still fewer have much knowledge of how this…
Is there a way back for CCS in the UK?
The development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) suffered a surprise blow last November when the United Kingdom’s widely admired ‘CCS Commercialisation Competition’ was quietly…
Isogo: a minimalist shrine to clean coal
Modern cities are ever more hungry for power, but increasingly prefer to keep their power plants out of sight and out of mind. Whilst the…
Ensuring energy security in the age of renewables
The last ten years have seen a remarkable growth in the use of wind and solar power worldwide as nations have sought to make dramatic…
Carbon capture and storage: the black sheep of green energy?
Mixed fortunes for this unloved carbon-cutting technology
White Rose wilts under green cuts
September 2015 saw a major setback in plans to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the United Kingdom, as Drax Power withdrew support from…
Bringing the age of steam into the information age
‘Greetings from the Stone Age’ proclaimed the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung upon the opening of a brand new coal power plant near Hamburg this year,…