Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:53:13 +0000
Renewable energy stakeholders are getting an assist from coal producers, the community solar trend, overseas investors, and the IRA, too.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 02:11:34 +0000
Louisville Gas and Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Co. (LG&E and KU) will replace two aging coal generation units at Mill Creek Generating Station in Kentucky—a combined 600 MW—with a […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:32:45 +0000
A landmark project to test fuel blends of up to 25% volume of hydrogen mixed with natural gas in reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICEs) has launched at WEC Energy Group’s 56-MW A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan. If successful, the pilot—one of the first of its kind in the U.S.—could provide key insight into how […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:10:43 +0000
The post What’s Driving Wholesale Power Price Changes? Not What You Think appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Falling natural gas prices tamped down annual U.S. wholesale power prices over the last decade by $7/MWh to $53/MWh—to a much higher degree compared to the impact of wind and solar growth—a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) suggests. The Nov. 20–published report, The Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:57:39 +0000
The post DTE Energy Latest to Target Net-Zero Carbon Emissions appeared first on POWER Magazine.
DTE Energy has announced a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, following steps by Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and NRG Energy to do the same over the past two weeks. The Detroit-based company on Sept. 26 said it would go beyond its existing commitment to reduce carbon emissions 50% by 2030 and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Chile, a country that relied on coal for about two-fifths of its power generation in 2016, in June announced it would mothball eight coal plants, totaling 23 GW, of its existing 28-plant coal fleet over the
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:42:21 +0000
The U.S. is investing heavily to ensure its future coal-fired power fleet will be cleaner, more efficient, and more flexible, experts said at the 9th International Conference on Clean Coal Technologies in Houston on June 4. The conference—which is taking place this week in the U.S. for the first time—is spearheaded by the IEA Clean […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:22:55 +0000
A report from an independent market monitor for PJM Interconnection shows that natural gas-fired power generation topped coal-fired output in PJM in 2018, the first time that gas has topped coal in the history of the largest U.S. grid operator. The “2018 State of the Market” report from Monitoring Analytics LLC, which includes Volume 1 […]
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Read moreIndustry aggressively fought the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) when the Obama administration proposed it in 2011 and finalized it in February 2012, warning it would precipitate the closure of a swathe of coal capacity nationwide. Six years later, the rule appears to have had a sizable impact on the power sector, but not […]
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