{"id":386802,"date":"2020-11-28T10:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386802"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T06:25:49","slug":"dubai-gets-arab-gulfs-first-and-perhaps-last-coal-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dubai-gets-arab-gulfs-first-and-perhaps-last-coal-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai gets Arab Gulf\u2019s first, and perhaps last, coal power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is set to become the first Arab Gulf country to generate electricity from coal. As governments increasingly turn to cleaner fuels and the price of renewable energy falls, it may also be the last.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai is starting up the $3.4 billion Hassyan coal plant, with capacity being increased from an initial 600 mega watts to 2,400 by 2023. Japan\u2019s Jera Co. will supply coal under a long-term agreement with Acwa Power of Saudi Arabia, which is developing the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Coal is typically the dirtiest fuel for power generation. Yet Hassyan\u2019s standards for pollution will be based on guidelines for natural-gas plants, according to Acwa. If met, that would mean Hassyan emits less carbon than the European Union and the World Bank\u2019s International Finance Corp. typically advise for coal plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is set to become the first Arab Gulf country to generate electricity from coal. As governments increasingly turn to cleaner fuels and the price of renewable energy falls, it may also be the last. Dubai is starting up the $3.4 billion Hassyan coal plant, with capacity being increased from an initial 600 mega watts to 2,400 by 2023. Japan\u2019s Jera Co. will supply coal under a long-term agreement with Acwa Power of Saudi Arabia, which is developing the plant. Coal is typically the dirtiest fuel for power generation. Yet Hassyan\u2019s standards for pollution will be based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}