Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:44:54 +0000
I thought the title from R.E.M.’s 1987 song was a fitting headline for this article. I contemplated using Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” but I thought R.E.M.’s “stream of
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:44:01 +0000
Emerging from a historic election that stripped the African National Congress (ANC) party of its majority, South Africa’s new government has indicated it will accelerate the transition to renewable power to
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:43:57 +0000
Managers know that valves are important to plant operation. That’s why keeping them in top condition is a priority. Upgrading to advanced valve designs and reducing stress on valve materials are just a
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:29 +0000
Combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants started appearing on a larger scale in the late 1990s and have since then been a very efficient supplier of baseload and lately […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:10 +0000
This June, the European Council formally adopted a first-of-its-kind regulation that sets out to restore at least 20% of the European Union’s (EU’s) land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of
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Credit to Author: Una Nowling, PE| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:09 +0000
Negativity can push you off your course in life. This is when Marnie first pushed back. “Any signal, Maya?” asked Marnie Surfaceblow, vice president of Surfaceblow & Associates International, as she
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Credit to Author: Chi-Chia Liu| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:07 +0000
To achieve net-zero goals and accelerate the global energy transition, the International Energy Agency (IEA) stated that countries need to triple renewable energy capacity from that of 2022 by 2030, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:55:13 +0000
Prices at PJM Interconnection’s 2025/2026 base residual auction (BRA) spiked to $269.92/MW-day for most resources in the wholesale power market, pointing to a tightening supply-demand balance that could have significant […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:31:00 +0000
Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:05:16 +0000
Updated data from the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) shows the country has 55 nuclear reactors in operation, ranking third globally behind the U.S. and France. The CNEA said China […]
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