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U.S. Railroading: What Sector’s Future Power Suppliers Will Need to Know

January 7, 2025 admin batteries, Business, Diesel, electrification, Energy Storage, fuel cell, hybrid, hydrogen, locomotives, rail, Railroad, Research and Development

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:29:45 +0000

Among the elements of America’s carbon-based industries and infrastructure being impacted by electrification, transportation exhibits, first, widespread economic and environmental impacts (private highway vehicles) driven by emerging technology, public policy, […]

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Groups Collaborate on Off-Grid Power Solutions for EV Hubs, Data Centers

January 7, 2025 admin Business, data centers, dc grid, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, ev hubs, evs, fleet vehicles, Gas, liberty energy, natural gas, news, off-grid, power, renewable natural gas, trends

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:28:01 +0000

Colorado-based Liberty Energy and California-based DC Grid announced a memorandum of understanding to deliver advanced power solutions that would support the growing energy demands of industries such as commercial fleet […]

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Why Utilities Can’t Afford to Wait to Deploy DLR

January 7, 2025 admin ampacimon, Business, congestion, curtailment, dlr, dynamic line ratings, full coverage, news, power, Power Demand, Smart Grid, T&D, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Brian Berry| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:38:14 +0000

Transmission congestion currently affects approximately 70% of the U.S. grid. Bottlenecks delay the interconnection of cost-effective clean energy sources, limit the transfer of electricity between regions, and raise operational and […]

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Factors Impacting the Transition to Carbon-Free Energy

January 6, 2025 admin carbon-free energy, cfe, climate change, Commentary, decarbonization, google, Legal & Regulatory, power

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:26:13 +0000

The production and consumption of carbon-free energy (CFE) has accelerated worldwide in recent years, driven by large private energy consumers who have been leading this transition. For example, Google has […]

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Officials Approve Duke Energy’s Plan to Replace Coal with Gas-Fired Units

January 5, 2025 admin Coal, duke energy, environment, Environmental, Gas, marshall, natural gas, news, North Carolina, roxboro

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:39:18 +0000

Regulators in North Carolina have approved Duke Energy’s plan to replace some of the utility’s coal-fired units with natural gas-fired generation. The North Carolina Utilities Commission in December issued orders […]

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Kentucky Utility Plans New Gas-Fired Units, Coal-to-Gas Conversion, and Solar Farms

January 4, 2025 admin Coal, east kentucky power cooperative, Environmental, Gas, natural gas, news, power, Renewables, Solar

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:01:40 +0000

A Kentucky electric cooperative plans to build new natural gas-fired units, and convert some of its coal-fired units to burn natural gas, as part of an expansion of its power […]

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Restoration Efforts Continue Following Complete Blackout of Puerto Rico’s Power Grid

January 3, 2025 admin grid, news, power, power grid, power outage, Puerto Rico, reliability, T&D

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:34:32 +0000

LUMA, Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system operator, has struggled to restore power to some of its customers in the wake of an outage that left the entire […]

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2025’s Energy Crossroads: 6 Trends Redefining the Global Power Sector

January 3, 2025 admin 2025, Business, clean energy investment, Coal, data centers, electricity demand growth, energy market trends, energy security, fossil fuel demand decline, full coverage, Gas, geopolitical energy challenges, grid modernization, iea world energy outlook, news, Nuclear, power, power sector flexibility, renewable energy competition, Renewables, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:15:00 +0000

Compared to recent years, which have been characterized by chronic energy shortages and price volatility, the world appears to be trundling toward a new energy market context, defined by an unprecedented

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Factors Affecting the Power Industry in 2025 and Beyond: Trump and Data Centers Among Key Influences

January 3, 2025 admin Business, data center, data centers, Forecast, full coverage, irã, news, power, Power Demand, power industry, power industry forecast, President Trump, Renewables, Solar, Solar power, trends

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:14:00 +0000

The new year always provides a great opportunity to take a look back to see what POWER got right (or wrong) in our previous industry forecast. More importantly, it gives us a chance to look ahead. Some things

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Central Theme for Energy’s Future: Decentralizing Power Generation

January 3, 2025 admin decentralized, ders, distributed energy, distributed energy resources, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, engineering, microgrid, news, power, Renewables, Research and Development, Technology, utilities, virtual power plants, vpp

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:13:00 +0000

The use of distributed energy resources (DERs) will continue to grow as utilities, businesses, and residential neighborhoods look for ways to balance the power grid and support more reliable and resilient

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