First Power Flows from World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:39:12 +0000

The massive Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will be the world’s largest offshore wind installation when completed, has begun sending power to the UK grid. GE officials on Oct. 10 […]

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Vermont Group Offers Customers Energy Storage to Avoid Blackouts

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:06:02 +0000

A Vermont utility has filed a plan with state regulators that would enable the power company to offer more customers battery energy storage to keep the lights on during outages. […]

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Texas Utility Plans to Add New Gas-Fired Generation

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:19:39 +0000

A Texas utility that expects to bring another 228 MW of natural gas-fired power generation online in December also plans to begin operating an additional four gas-fired units over the […]

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NiSource Announces Blending Project with Hydrogen, Natural Gas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:18:23 +0000

An Indiana-based utility said it has launched a multi-phase hydrogen blending project, a move that supports one of the first such installations in the U.S. to mix hydrogen and natural […]

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Bipartisan Support Makes Backing Nuclear Power an Administration-Proof Investment

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:24:37 +0000

Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the policy organization of the nuclear technologies industry, suggested a bipartisan majority in Congress recognizes the importance of nuclear […]

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NuScale Gets a Win with SMRs for Data Centers in Ohio and Pennsylvania

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:21:45 +0000

Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, has chosen NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) technology to power two facilities it plans to […]

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Germany Restarts Coal-Fired Generation to Support Winter Power Supply

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:40:52 +0000

Government officials in Germany have approved a plan to bring some shuttered coal-fired power plants back online in an effort to avoid energy shortages this winter. Cabinet members on Oct. […]

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SRP Shifts from Traditional IRP to ‘Holistic’ Power Planning

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:37:50 +0000

Salt River Project (SRP) has become one of the first U.S. utilities to shift from an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to an Integrated System Plan (ISP), a “holistic roadmap” that […]

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POWER Notebook: New Projects For Energy Storage, Community Solar, Electric Buses; Google Announces PPA

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:32:13 +0000

An Arizona utility plans to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) that will help it store more of the region’s abundant solar energy, enabling the power to be used […]

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Corrosion Research Leads to Material Improvements and More Reliable Systems

Credit to Author: Nigel Simms| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:15:26 +0000

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Fossil-fueled power plants are billion-pound investments that businesses (as well as whole nations themselves) around the world can’t afford to simply discard. Yet, the combinations of old plant, new fuels, […]

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