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NRC Issues License for Holtec’s New Mexico Consolidated Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility

May 12, 2023 admin Business, cisf, consolidated interim storage, DOE, Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, hi-store, holtec, isp, Legal & Regulatory, NEW MEXICO, news, Nuclear, nuclear waste, repository, snf storage

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 17:44:24 +0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Holtec International a license to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico, despite […]

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Carbon Capture Key to EPA’s New Power Plant Emissions Rule

May 12, 2023 admin affordable clean energy rule, biden, Carbon Capture, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, ccus, clean air act, Clean Power Plan, Coal, DOE, emissions, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, news, Obama, power, Technology, Trump

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 09:02:46 +0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled new greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for the nation’s power plants, moving to require both existing and new facilities to capture emissions of […]

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Westinghouse Unveils the AP300—A Miniaturized AP1000 Small Modular Nuclear Reactor

May 11, 2023 admin AP1000, ap300, ap600, Construction, costs, DOE, engineering, evinci, full coverage, lcoe, lfr, Markets, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear markets, nuclear reactors, Plant Design, Power Demand, Research and Development, smr, supply chains, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 17:31:07 +0000

Westinghouse has officially unveiled the AP300, a “downsized” version of the company’s flagship AP1000 Generation III+ pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology. While the small modular reactor (SMR) will enter a nuclear market […]

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DOE Offers $3B Conditional Loan Guarantee to Virtual Power Plant Initiative

April 24, 2023 admin Business, Distributed Generation, distributed power, DOE, eaas, energy justice, finance, full coverage, loan guarantee, news, power, Puerto Rico, Renewables, Solar, sunnova, virtual power plant

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:00:03 +0000

Sunnova Energy Corp., an energy-as-a-service (EaaS) provider, has snagged a first-of-its-kind conditional federal loan guarantee commitment of up to $3 billion for a project that could further future virtual power […]

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India Eyes Major Expansion of Nuclear Power

April 4, 2023 admin Business, China, DOE, France, India, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, power, quad, Russia, u.s.

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:17:00 +0000

India’s government is pushing for construction of more nuclear power plants as the country looks to increase its supply of cleaner energy. Officials have made some ambitious pronouncements, calling for as

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Entergy, RWE Partner to Assess Offshore Wind Prospects in Gulf of Mexico

March 30, 2023 admin Business, DOE, economic challenges, entergy, finance, full coverage, gulf of mexico, news, nrel, offshore wind, Renewables, rwe, technical challenges, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:09:11 +0000

U.S. utility Entergy and global power giant RWE are partnering to jointly assess the best means to develop an offshore wind market in the Gulf of Mexico. The two companies on March 30 unveiled a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which they will analyze the Gulf of Mexico offshore wind market and define an optimal […]

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The Tremendous Potential—and Challenge—of Offshore Wind Energy

March 24, 2023 admin DOE, fpso, International, lankhorst euronete, mooring, Norway, O&M, offshore wind, operations and maintenance, Portugal, Renewables, Spain, Technology, The Netherlands

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:13:43 +0000

Wind turbines must move farther offshore to gain greater efficiency. But the challenges associated with doing so are significant. At the Dutch village of Den Oever, just north of Amsterdam, the A7 motorway extends onto the Afsluitdijk, a 32-kilometer dike that separates IJsselmeer Lake and the North Sea. Near the midway point, approaching the village […]

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Biden Administration Pledges $1.2 Billion to Keep U.S. Nuclear Reactors Online

March 3, 2023 admin Business, California, civil nuclear credit program, diablo canyon, DOE, funding, Legislative, Michigan, news, Nuclear, pacific gas & electric, palisades, PG&E

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:18:19 +0000

The Biden administration has pledged another $1.2 billion to help extend the operating life of older or distressed nuclear power plants, with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm saying nuclear power is needed to support the nation’s clean energy goals. The funding, announced by the Dept. of Energy (DOE) on March 2, is the second tranche of […]

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X-energy and Dow Will Deploy a 320-MWe Xe-100 Nuclear Facility at Gulf Coast Site

March 2, 2023 admin advanced nuclear, ardp, Business, DOE, dow, full coverage, htgr, industrial decarbonization, Markets, news, Nuclear, supply chains, Technology, x-energy, xe-100

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:46:58 +0000

X-energy will demonstrate its four-unit 320-MWe Xe-100 advanced nuclear reactor facility under the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) at a Dow site in the U.S. Gulf Coast region by the end of the decade—not in Washington State as originally planned. The shakeup stems from a joint development agreement (JDA) the nuclear […]

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Group Touts Milestone for Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Power

February 28, 2023 admin DOE, fusion, hydrogen boron, Japan, national institute for fusion science, net energy, nifs, Nuclear, power, tae technologies

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:30:13 +0000

A California-based group said it has completed the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments to produce a sustainable fuel for utility-scale fusion power. TAE Technologies on Feb. 28, in a peer-reviewed paper published by the scientific journal Nature Communications, said its research supports the path to providing electricity from nuclear reactors fueled with hydrogen-boron, also known as […]

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