Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:10:57 +0000
Despite a bit of pushback from policy makers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Department of Energy continues to push the global renewable energy transition
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:05:58 +0000
Everything old is new again as leading US power users deploy distributed wind energy to regain control over their electrical destiny
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:55:08 +0000
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FirstEnergy Solutions (FES), Xcel Energy, and Arizona Public Service (APS) will demonstrate hydrogen production at three nuclear plants they own starting in 2020 and 2021. The projects, selected as part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Project funding pathway, aim to improve long-term competitiveness of the nuclear sector […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:21:21 +0000
A first-of-its-kind project spearheaded by Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear power generator, and Norwegian firm Nel Hydrogen could demonstrate an integrated hydrogen production, storage, and utilization facility at an existing nuclear plant site. If the project comes to fruition, it could shed light on a new and potentially lucrative revenue stream for existing nuclear power […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:52:16 +0000
The names of bulk power system entities that violate federal critical infrastructure cybersecurity reliability standards—along with identification of standards violated and penalties assessed—may soon be routinely disclosed under changes proposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Reliability Corp. (NERC). The proposed changes, which FERC and NERC outlined in an Aug. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:55:01 +0000
Three new reports from the Department of Energy chart the rise of wind power in the USA, undercutting the Commander-in-Chief’s promises to coal miners
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:28:22 +0000
San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) said on Aug. 12 it will get $3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and another $760,658 from an assortment of industry giants to design a large-scale flameless pressurized oxy-fuel combustion pilot plant. The announcement is a major boost for the promising, but yet unproven technology, that […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:24:33 +0000
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Philippines — While it welcomed the Supreme Court ruling requiring distribution utilities to bid out their power supply agreements (PSA), an activist group warned the high court the bidding proceedings used by Meralco could undercut the Department of Energy’s (DOE) mandate to supervise the process.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:38:17 +0000
Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi had stopped a planned increase in power generation charge that would bring power rates in some of the country’s remotest and poorest areas to more than P8 per kilowatt hour. In a statement, Cusi ordered the Napocor to put the plan on hold. Cusi, instead, asked the Napocor to find ways […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:06:33 +0000
The Department of Energy (DOE) officially launched development of its Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), an experimental fast reactor that will foster experiments with much higher neutron energy and flux compared to the nation’s existing 35 research reactors to develop advanced nuclear fuel for future nuclear power plants in the U.S. The facility, it says, is […]
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