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Gamesa and Iberdrola sign EUR 6.3bn largest ever wind power agreement
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica’s Board of Directors this week approved a historic agreement GAMESA has reached with Iberdrola Renovables, involving the largest ever purchase and sale agreement of wind turbine generators in the history of the wind energy sector amounting to a total power of 4,500 megawatts (MW). This agreement was complemented by the signing of a strategic wind farm agreement through which both companies’ competencies in the promotion, development and operation of wind energy projects in Spain and continental Europe will be merged.
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New York governor encourages unique clean coal plant
New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to US$6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal in pure oxygen instead of air. This process leaves water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, which can be stored, or sequestered, underground for permanent storage.
Burning coal in oxygen can produce exhaust streams that are close to pure carbon dioxide, according to scientists at Sandia National Lab.
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