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: 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: 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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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:11:34 +0000
The U.S. Department of the Air Force has awarded Sage Geosystems an initial $1.9 million contract to demonstrate its pioneering geothermal baseload power and energy storage system at an off-site […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:31:46 +0000
Pennsylvania has been a hotspot for nuclear power since the advent of commercial nuclear power, which it pioneered with first power from the 60-MW Shippingport Atomic Power Station near Pittsburgh […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:52:11 +0000
Fusion energy is a promising form of power generation that aims to harness the same process that powers the sun and stars. Fusion involves combining two light atomic nuclei to […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:32:30 +0000
$100 billion investment potential will enhance American competitiveness in artificial intelligence (AI) while meeting the growing need for energy infrastructure to power economic growth The drive to develop more powerful […]
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Credit to Author: Drew Robb| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:56:25 +0000
Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:33:02 +0000
Municipal power utility Idaho Falls Power (IFP) has announced it is negotiating a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Aalo Atomics, a 2022-founded nuclear engineering firm inspired by Idaho National Laboratory […]
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Credit to Author: Janique Williams| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:13:10 +0000
The growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) has significantly increased over the past decade as the U.S. moves to decarbonize the electric grid. Growth has been possible by incentivizing the […]
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