Coal for Electricity

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China FAQs_Road_Testing_Tech_v1_6.pdf

Key Points

• U.S. environmental engineering company LP Amina developed a new technology that improves efficiency and reduces pollution at coal-fired power plants, and is collaborating with Chinese utilities to demonstrate it.
• LP Amina leveraged its participation in U.S.-China public-private partnerships to find partners for demonstrating the technology and potential buyers.
• The component is being manufactured in Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia for buyers in the U.S., China and around the globe.
• The new design saves coal and cuts emissions of CO2 and other pollutants from power plants– promising significant environmental benefits.

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China FAQs Emission Standards v1.4.pdf

Key Points

• China’s new emissions standards for power plants are comparable to standards in the developed world in important respects.
• These standards are being phased in quickly. They apply to new plants starting Jan. 1, 2012, and existing plants have just 2½ years to meet the standards.
• The standards include provisions for even greater stringency in highly polluted areas.
• China has raised electricity rates to fund the $41 billion investment in new pollution abatement equipment as well as the operating costs needed to comply with the standards.
• These measures also encourage greater energy efficiency and the use of renewables, as they raise the cost of coal-fired power.

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Herberg_USCC testimony_26 2012.pdf

I first would like to thank the members of the Commission for the opportunity to testify to this important group. It is an honor and a privilege.

I have been asked to speak about China’s approach to securing its energy supplies and implications for the United States. I will discuss China’s approach, whether it is impacting global energy markets and the competitive prospects of American energy companies, how Beijing’s energy security drive is influencing maritime territorial and sea lane disputes in the seas around Asia, and some suggestions on U.S. policy towards the developments.

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forbes_testimony_china_shale_gas_2012-01-26.pdf

“China’s Prospects for Shale Gas and Implications for the U.S.”

Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the deliberations of this Commission. My name is Sarah Forbes, and I am a Senior Associate for the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute. I am also manager of the World Resources Institute’s Shale Gas Initiative. The World Resources Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan environmental think tank that goes beyond research to provide practical solutions to the world’s most urgent environmental and development challenges. We work in partnership with scientists, businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations in more than seventy countries to provide information, tools, and analysis to provide for human well-being.