SOMERSET — The owner of the Somerset Station has filed an application for an air permit with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection that could pave the way for the power plant, which ...

Plasma gasification converts carbon-containing materials - such as coal, petroleum coke and municipal solid waste or biomass - into a synthesis gas (syngas) composed primarily of carbon monoxide and ...

SOMERSET — The selectmen held an informational hearing on Monday night at the Old Town Hall to garner information about the plasma gasification proposal for the Somerset Station power plant and to ...

The nation's largest landfill owner wants to team with a Bend-based company to turn 25 tons a day of Portland-area trash into fuel -- by vaporizing it at temperatures of up to 20,000 degrees. The ...

Work on the Renewable Energy Clean Air Project plasma gasification facility continues to move forward with a feasibility study soon available to the public and interest expressed from a neighboring ...

NRG Energy’s proposed 112-MW project to repower its coal-fired Somerset Station in Massachusetts with plasma gasification technology has moved on to the due diligence phase of the Department of Energy ...

Waste Management Inc. is teaming with a startup, InEnTec, to commercialize a technology that turns waste into energy. The new joint venture, S4 Energy Solutions, which was unveiled late last month, ...

February 18, 2009 It’s common knowledge that the majority of electricity generation and waste disposal methods currently in widespread use are not very environmentally friendly. New British venture ...

Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston’s Waste Management, a ...