Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:59:33 +0000
A project that will demonstrate the conversion of a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky, into a utility-scale 287-MW pumped storage hydroelectric facility has garnered federal backing from the […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:54:27 +0000
BayWa r.e. Americas has signed an aggregated virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with several groups for a renewable energy project in Illinois that is designed to support decarbonization efforts in […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:27:37 +0000
The UK government has narrowed its shortlist of technologies competing in its flagship Small Modular Reactor (SMR) competition to four candidates. On Sept. 25, it announced that Westinghouse, GE-Hitachi Nuclear […]
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Credit to Author: Gisela Glandt| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:02:13 +0000
Utilities are in a tricky spot. While reliability is one of three key focus areas for utilities as they navigate the clean energy transition, along with decarbonization and affordability, it’s […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:36:44 +0000
Groundbreaking has kicked off at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where Project Pele—the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) full-scale transportable microreactor prototype—will be placed for testing in 2026. When operational, the reactor […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:33:10 +0000
The Dept. of Energy’s (DOE’s) Grid Deployment Office has awarded $34.5 million to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). The funding will support 19 hydropower projects across PG&E’s territory. […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:20:39 +0000
More than 13,000 solar panels will be installed on the roof of the New Terminal One project at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City. The consortium […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:06 +0000
Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […]
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Credit to Author: Timothy Riley| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:28:07 +0000
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision this past summer in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo marks a significant shift in administrative law by overturning the long-standing principle of Chevron deference, which […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:04:25 +0000
Rapid growth in the U.S. data center market is ushering in a new era of power demand and testing the ability of electric utilities to keep pace with this surging […]
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