Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:33:26 +0000
Space-based solar power (SBSP) could prove transformative to global energy demand by providing price-efficient, continuous clean energy from orbit (Figure 1). Recent developments, including low-cost space access, mass-produced satellites, robotics, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:53:02 +0000
The Jackson Generation plant, a 1.2-GW combined cycle power plant in Elwood, Illinois, debuted North America’s first M501JAC gas turbines. Developed by J-POWER USA, the facility has emerged as a model for
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:52:45 +0000
Caithness Energy’s Guernsey Power Station, which features GE Vernova equipment, is an important gas-fired facility helping replace retired coal-fired generation in the PJM Interconnection territory
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:27:37 +0000
The UK government has narrowed its shortlist of technologies competing in its flagship Small Modular Reactor (SMR) competition to four candidates. On Sept. 25, it announced that Westinghouse, GE-Hitachi Nuclear […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:06 +0000
Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:44:37 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) a construction permit to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus in Texas. The […]
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Credit to Author: Andy Miller| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:31:35 +0000
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) can be the key to tackling any number of issues your grid or business may be facing, such as a need to support more renewables, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:12:31 +0000
BWXT Technologies has won a contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to evaluate options for deploying a centrifuge pilot plant that could establish a new domestic uranium enrichment […]
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Credit to Author: Svetlin Todorov| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:31:15 +0000
Solar energy is one of the main ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions and take action against the impact of climate change. Solar power offers security that homeowners can continue […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:24:15 +0000
Sage Geosystems will build a first-of-its-kind 3-MW geothermal baseload power and energy storage system on land owned by San Miguel Electric Cooperative (SMECI) in Christine, Texas. The company plans to […]
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