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Amazon Backs Massive Nuclear SMR Deployment: 5 GW with X-Energy, Agreements With Energy Northwest, Dominion

October 16, 2024 admin advanced reactor demonstration program (ardp), amazon climate pledge, Business, carbon-free power, clean energy innovation, dominion energy, energy northwest, finance, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, small modular reactors (smrs), Technology, triso-x fuel, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:01:58 +0000

In yet another major set of deals spearheaded by a tech giant in support of nuclear power development, Amazon will back the deployment of 5 GW of new X-energy small […]

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Puget Sound Energy Commits $10M to Nuclear Power Feasibility Work, X-energy SMR Technology a Leading Contender for Project

January 14, 2024 admin Business, energy northwest, Environmental, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, Plant Design, power, pse, puget sound energy, Small Modular Reactor, smr, top plant, x-energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:23:52 +0000

Energy Northwest, a Washington state public power joint operating agency, announced an agreement with Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy (PSE), which it says will “accelerate the agency’s program examining the feasibility […]

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Energy Northwest Study Makes a Case for SMRs in Future Power Mix

February 4, 2020 admin batteries, Business, Carbon Capture, climate change, Coal, e3, energy northwest, Energy Storage, Environmental, foak, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, news, noak, northwest, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear relicensing, NuScale, Renewables, smrs, Solar, study, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:10:39 +0000

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Deep decarbonization of the U.S. Northwest can be achieved at “manageable” costs by 2045, but only if utility agency Energy Northwest secures zero-emitting firm capacity, such as by relicensing Columbia Generating Station—the sole nuclear plant in the region—and building small modular reactors (SMRs), a new study suggests. The study by San Francisco-based consulting group Energy […]

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Columbia Nuclear Plant Sets Another Generation Record, Credits Good Performance

January 9, 2019 admin Business, columbia nuclear plant, economics, energy northwest, generation record, news, Nuclear, O&M, pacific northwest, Performance

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:17:59 +0000

Operators of the Columbia Generating Station have set a new generation record at the nuclear plant 12 miles north of Richland, Wash., sending more than 9.7 million MWh to the Pacific Northwest power grid during 2018. The single 1,207-MW single GE-built Mark-2 boiling water reactor that is owned and operated by Energy Northwest—which comprises 26 […]

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