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Hydropower Bill Overwhelmingly Clears Senate, Heads to President’s Desk

October 11, 2018 admin Business, conduit, DOE, finance, Hydro, Legislative, Markets, news, O&M, Technology, Water

The U.S. Senate has cleared a major water infrastructure bill that contains several provisions promoting hydropower development, sending it to the president’s desk. The Senate passed S. 3021, “America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018,” on October 10 through a bipartisan vote of 99–1. Because the House of Representatives unanimously passed the bill in a voice […]

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A List of DOE-Funded Large Coal Demonstrations

October 10, 2018 admin Coal, coal demonstrations, DOE, funding, History, netl, news, projects, r&d, Research and Development, Technology

Below is a list from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of all its large-scale coal demonstration projects, starting with the most recent, with a link to each respective project landing page. In a report prepared for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources that was released on October 1, 2018, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says […]

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DOE Sank Billions of Fossil Energy R&D Dollars in CCS Projects. Most Failed.

October 10, 2018 admin advanced coal technology, Business, CCS, climate change, Coal, DOE, Environmental, finance, fossil energy r&d funding, gas turbine technology, Markets, news, Research and Development, Technology

Nearly half of the $2.66 billion spent by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) since 2010 to develop advanced fossil energy technologies was dedicated to nine carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects—but only three were active at the end of 2017, and only one was at a power plant. In a report prepared for […]

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Oldest U.S. Nuclear Plant Shuts Down

September 17, 2018 admin Business, DOE, EIA, Exelon, New Jersey, New York, news, nine mile point, NRC, Nuclear, oyster creek, Pennsylvania, Vogtle

The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey, the oldest operating nuclear plant in the U.S., was shut down September 17. Workers marked the closure with a ceremony at the plant, as 400 current employees and former workers watched via a livestream as operators took the plant offline. Oyster Creek, a 625-MW single-reactor plant […]

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Plans Move Forward for Privately Funded Storage of Nuclear Waste

September 5, 2018 admin Business, DOE, Environmental, holtec, interim storage partners, interim waste storage, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, NEW MEXICO, news, Nuclear, Technology, texas, Trump, Yucca Mountain

The Trump administration has revived the discussion of using Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository for the nation’s nuclear waste. Nevada officials remain opposed to the idea of putting spent nuclear fuel in long-term storage at a site about 100 miles from Las Vegas. But while a bill to resurrect Yucca Mountain as a […]

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Solon does not want to bring back Euro-2 diesel for transport sector

September 1, 2018 admin DOE, Energy, international news, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, Philippine news update

A House leader has expressed concern on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to allow the downstream oil industry to offer “Euro-2 compliant diesel” to the transport sector.

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Experts: Coal Plants Must Adapt to New Energy Landscape

August 22, 2018 admin ace rule, Coal, DOE, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, new source review, news, Renewables, Solar, Wind

The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule announced August 21 calls for coal-fired power plants to meet state-designed performance standards, most notably focused on increases in heat rate and overall efficiency for individual generating stations. Energy experts speaking at the MEGA Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 22 agreed it’s a goal worth pursuing. […]

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Storage Bringing Change to Energy Markets

August 21, 2018 admin Business, Coal, DOE, Energy Storage, ferc, Gas, Markets, mega symposium, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, Technology, Trump, Wind

Energy industry experts speaking at the MEGA Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 21 agreed that storage is becoming more important to the overall mix of U.S. power sources. They also said utility-scale storage solutions remain “years away,” even as technology advancements in battery systems occur more rapidly. Panelists at the session entitled “The Transformation […]

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Official: FERC, Other Agencies Identifying ‘Critical’ Coal, Nuclear Plants

August 9, 2018 admin Coal, dod, DOE, federal power act, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, natural gas act, nsc, Nuclear, Renewables, resilience, Sierra Club, Trump

An official with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) told a nuclear industry group this week that the agency and Trump administration officials are trying to identify power plants they consider critical to the nation’s grid. The move is seen as part of the White House effort to prop up the struggling U.S. coal and […]

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Fusion Power: Watching, Waiting, as Research Continues

August 1, 2018 admin aec, Business, DOE, fusion power, general, GERMANY, h-bomb, hans bethe, History, hydrogen, International, iter, lasers, lawrence livermore national laboratory, magnets, mit, news, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, nuclear technology, r&d, Research and Development, Technology

Cheap and abundant electric power from nuclear fusion—power “too cheap to meter”—has been a dream for more than a half-century. But as time passes, practical fusion appears to be moving further into

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