GLG News by Water Treatment Plant Experts

While ethanol coming from grains certainly is heavely affecting grains pricing, the same is not happening when the ethanol source came from sugar cane.  Brazil is the model, they produce ethanol easier, cheaper and efficiently , and  a quite estable sugar pricing is reflecting this. Most...

Integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC), a commercially demonstrated technology for Carbon (CO2) capture is marketed as turnkey approach via Bechtel and General Electric’s long-term alliance. The recent alliance with Schlumberger addresses the outstanding question of what to do with captured CO2....

MANDATING TRANSPORT COST LOW SULFUR POWDER RIVE BASIN COAL SUGGESTS A TREND THAT COULD APPLY BEYOND MISSOURI AND TO OTHER STATES E.G. TEXAS Reducing transport cost of coal would provide economic impeturs for additional coal-fired units in Mid-West and South 

Examples of regulated electric utilities opting for different fuel mixtures: Alliant Energy is hedging its bets supporting both coal and gas-fired units. FPL is hedging its bets supporting gas-fired and nuclear power plants.   Regulated utilities will determine their fuel energy mix based...

Nuclear Power Plants Estimated Capital Costs have risen 2 - 5 times over the last 18 months Such High Costs may require special Rate Considerations by state regulators Lacking such rate recovery mechanisms, self financing may limit growth of Nuclear Power in USA

President Bush’s decision to stop by CO2 emissions by 2025 and USDOE’s intent to commercially demonstrate Carbon [CO2] Capture and Sequestration [CCS] by 2015-2016] time tables show that the USA can keep relying on Coal while avoiding Global Warming Predictions [80% CO2 reductions by 2050].

This article points to an area of the water industry that will continue to enjoy positive dynamics. For the investor, the message is simple: companies selling water infrastructure-related products and services, like large pipes, large valves, inspection and repair services, water pipeline engineering...

The US Department of Energy’s [USDOE] decision, to restructure FutureGen from a $1.8 billion 275MW prototype – demonstrating Carbon [CO2] Capture and Sequestration (CCS) – to a series of CCS demonstrations on operating facilities, should facilitate siting of tens of thousands of MWs of proposed coal-fired...

The water industry is a very fragmented industry, where opportunities for investment abound. Large water services giants (Veolia and Suez) established in China for several decades are being challenged by smaller regional and local competitors (Hyflux, Biotreat, etc.). From multi-million capital intensive...

Recent Cancellation of several thousand MWs of coal-fired power plant capacity adds additional impetus for US Coal companies to develop a coal liquefaction market Federal Government, not private sector, better positioned to develop a commercial Coal-to-Liquid [CTL] facility