The Engineering Development Board (EDB) has approved the use of clean coal technology (CCT) to run the country’s existing power plants, amid efforts to find an economically and environmentally viable coal technology to address the looming energy crisis.

 Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.(OTCQB: MEEC) today announces an update on its current operations and offers a market discussion by its President and CEO.

As background, in April of 2012, theU.S. EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)rule was finalized, requiring U.S. coal and oil-fired units over 25 megawatts in size to reduce mercury emissions by approximately 90% (the exact amount depending on the mercury content in the fuel burned), starting in April 2015.  The EPA believes that this law affects 1,100 coal and 300 oil-fired units and estimates the annual cost of compliance with the new standards to be approximately $9 billion.  Currently, several states have established their own limits on mercury emissions, providing for a near-term market opportunity for MEEC; while the major market for mercury removal resulting from MATS's deadline for compliance will be realized in less than two years.   All power plants affected by the MATS rule will be required to be fully compliant with the MATS standards by April 2015 (with a one year extension available in certain circumstances). This new mercury emissions capture services market will create a large and on-going, annual revenue stream for the very best suppliers of such services.

MIDWEST ENERGY EMISSIONS CORP ("MEEC-L") - Operations Update

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. to-day announces an update on its current operations and offers a market discussion by its President and CEO.

As background, in April of 2012, the U.S. EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule was finalized, requiring U.S. coal and oil-fired units over 25 megawatts in size to reduce mercury emissions by approximately 90% (the exact amount depending on the mercury content in the fuel burned), starting in April 2015. The EPA believes that this law affects 1,100 coal and 300 oil-fired units and estimates the annual cost of compliance with the new standards to be approximately $9 billion. Currently, several states have established their own limits on mercury emissions, providing for a near-term market opportunity for MEEC; while the major market for mercury removal resulting from MATS's deadline for compliance will be realized in less than two years. All power plants affected by the MATS rule will be required to be fully compliant with the MATS standards by April 2015 (with a one year extension available in certain circumstances). This new mercury emissions capture services market will create a large and on-going, annual revenue stream for the very best suppliers of such services.

Office of the Maine House of Representatives has issued the following bill:

An Act To Exempt Small Privately Owned Windmills from the Property Tax
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Ron Gdovic has a simple idea about using a wind turbine at home.

"I wanted to make something that all you do is tip it up, put it in place and plug it in," he says.

Gdovic is the inventor and marketer of a 20-foot-tall cylindrical wind turbine aimed at providing about 20 percent of a home's electrical needs. The turbines are powered by vertically spinning, wooden blades shaped individually at the Strip District plant of WindStax Power Systems, of which Gdovic is president.

The turbines - housed in a tower of polyvinyl chloride posts and costing about $7,500 for the residential size - are drawing attention for a variety of reasons. The blades are made of okoume, a flexible, Asian wood often used in boat construction.

Southern California says good bye to nuclear power

THE capitulation came suddenly. On June 7th Southern California Edison, the majority owner of the San Onofre nuclear power station midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, surprised everyone by announcing it was retiring the troubled plant for good. Little more than a month ago, the utility was still trying to persuade the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to let it restart one of the plant's two reactors--and run it at 70% full power for five months so technicians could examine the troublesome steam generators.The 2,250-megawatt power station has been offline since January 2012, when cooling tubes in one of its reactors sprang a leak and vented radioactive steam into the containment vessel. Before it was idled, the plant supplied over 9% of California's electricity, serving some 1.4m people in the region. It was one of just two nuclear power stations remaining in California.

Rurelec (AIM: RUR) has reached financial closure for its 5.3MW Canchayllo hydro in Peru with a US$7.2mn loan from IDB.

Norway-based renewable energy firm Statkraft has opened the 430MW Knapsack II combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Hürth, Germany.

ENP Newswire - 17 June 2013

Release date- 14062013 - DAWSON CREEK - BC Hydro and the Peace River Regional District have announced that they have reached an agreement for regional legacy benefits associated with the operation of the proposed Site C Clean Energy Project.

The U.S. Department of Energy published the following notice in the Federal Register from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission:

Combined Notice of Filings

A Notice by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on 06/17/2013

Almost every power producer knows that power tariffs need to be revised upwards. One reason is the surging costs of inputs especially of coal and gas. A second reason is that industry has begun to find solar power cheaper than the price they pay for industrial and commercial power, and thus could reduce their offtake from the grid. That would leave state governments with less money to subsidise cheap power for agriculture and below the poverty line (BPL) families. A third reason is unpaid bills both by consumers and by state distribution companies, threatening to adversely affect power producers. Then there is the problem of losses and theft.

Something needs to be done. Increasing tariffs is one short term solution.

To discuss this, DNA called together a panel comprising (in alphabetical order) G. J. Deshpande, Regional Executive Director, Western Region-I Headquarters, National Thermal Power Corporation; O. P. Gupta, General Manager, BEST [Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking]; Ajoy Mehta, Managing Director, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company; S. Padmanabhan, Executive Director, Operations, Tata Power;

ENP Newswire - 17 June 2013

Release date- 14062013 - Carbon Energy (ASX: CNX, OTCQX: CNXAY) is pleased to announce the Company has been awarded the Advanced Clean Coal Technology Award for its proprietary keyseam underground coal gasification technology.

ENP Newswire - 17 June 2013

Release date- 13062013 - ARCHBALD, Pa. - Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company have signed an agreement to prototype, manufacture and qualify nuclear power plant reactor protection systems for China's Generation III reactors.

Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Yoon Sang-jick, right, listens to explanations about the energy management system at SK Chemical's research center in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province on June 11. / YonhapBy Kim Tae-jong

Companies have joined government-led power saving campaigns because the nation faces a possible blackout ahead of the peak summer season.

The government, which has unveiled a package of power saving measures, is 'forcibly' encouraging the public and companies to save as much energy as possible, promising incentives.

Argentine power demand continued to grow in May after rebounding in April from a two-month decline, according to data from wholesale power market operator Cammesa.

Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah replies to a query on 'Solar Power Generation in Public and Private Sector' raised by Charles Dias on March 8, 2013.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing revision 2 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.137, "Fuel Oil Systems for Emergency Power Supplies." Revision 2 of RG 1.137 endorses ANSI/ANS-59.51-1997, "Fuel Oil Systems for Safety-Related Emergency Diesel Generators," (reaffirmed in October 2007) with the exceptions and clarification stated in the RG. ANSI/ANS-59.51-1997 describes methods that the NRC considers acceptable for use in complying with NRC regulations for assuring the quality of fuel oil for emergency diesel generators used in nuclear power plants.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0159 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses and is publicly available, using the following methods:

* Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0159. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov For technical questions, contact the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

New Delhi, June 16 -- Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) today announced completion of competitive bidding processes and subsequent negotiations to construct a baseload energy project and to acquire and construct a new wind farm. PGE has also signed a new memorandum of understanding with the Bonneville Power Administration to seek mutual transmission capacity solutions, resulting in the company's decision to suspend permitting and development of the proposed Cascade Crossing transmission project and revise its 2013 earnings guidance. The power plants and the memorandum of understanding significantly advance the company's implementation of its current integrated resource plan, which the Oregon Public Utility Commission acknowledged in November 2010. PGE has entered into the following:

The U.S. Department of Energy published the following notice in the Federal Register from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission:

Calpine Texas Pipeline, L.P.; Notice of Filing

A Notice by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on 06/17/2013

Construction of three hydro-power plants is planned in the mountainous regions of Adjara, Georgia. The project was initiated by Adjara Water - Georgia LLC, according to the government of the autonomous region in the South Caucasus republic.