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Federal court overturns environmental agency’s rule on generator runtime

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:20 -- Anonymous
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A federal court of appeals has overturned a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule allowing backup generators to run for 100 hours per year without being subject to air pollution controls.

Last week the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the EPA has failed to justify the exemption for diesel-fueled backup generators.

In 2010 the EPA started to allow backup generators to run for up to 15 hours a year without being subject to emissions regulations. By January 2013 the agency updated those rules, allowing the backup generators to run for 100 hours.

The rule was challenged by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources backed by a number of environmental advocacy groups and power suppliers, arguing that the 100-hour rule could encourage large consumers to use more power from backup generators in non-emergency situations.

Sacred Sun Power opens state-of-the-art lead-acid plant

Thu, 08/22/2013 - 15:32 -- Anonymous
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Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources Co. Ltd has opened a state-of-the-art facility that, when running at full capacity, will be one of the largest lead-acid battery factories in the world. The production site in Qufu City, Shandong, China, currently has an annual production capacity of four million kVAh, when the plant is fully operational this could reach six million kVAh each year.

The one billion RMB (US$163 million) plant is part of the new environmentally-conscious era of Chinese lead-acid battery manufacturing because it adheres to the Lead-Acid Battery Industry Access Conditions that have recently been announced by the Chinese Government.

Some Chinese battery producers have been criticised for lead contamination coming from plants. To prevent such pollution, Sacred Sun has introduced ultramodern production processes and equipment including a fully automatic lead-milling process, a closed-loop system to supply, recover and recycle lead in production, and fully enclosed battery formation. These methods are highly effective for reducing lead fumes and dust. The new plant also uses advanced technology and equipment for producing tubular plating.

According to the Lead-Acid Battery Industry Access Conditions, as set out by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, new, reorganised and expanded lead-acid battery manufacturers' capacities can be no less than 500,000 kVAh, in the hope of improving the industry access threshold.

Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources, located in Qufu City, Shandong Province, China, was established in 1991. The company produces lead-acid batteries that are primarily used in standby power and electric vehicle applications around the world.

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