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BOEM’s First Two Offshore Wind Areas in the Gulf of Mexico Could Feed Texas, Louisiana

July 21, 2022 admin boem, Business, doi, Environmental, full coverage, gulf of mexico, leasing, news, ocean/marine, offshore wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:26:32 +0000

The Biden administration’s push to accelerate offshore wind deployment formally expanded into the Gulf of Mexico as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on July 20 unveiled two draft wind energy areas (WEAs) off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. The sites represent a “small subset” of its original 30-million Gulf […]

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BOEMs First Two Offshore Wind Areas in the Gulf of Mexico Could Feed Texas, Louisiana

July 21, 2022 admin boem, Business, doi, Environmental, full coverage, gulf of mexico, leasing, news, ocean/marine, offshore wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:26:32 +0000

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Plant Bowen Will Showcase Largest Coal Ash Beneficial Use Project in the U.S.

July 6, 2022 admin beneficial use, Business, cement, Coal, coal ash, Construction, Environmental, full coverage, Georgia Power, news, Technology, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:47:20 +0000

Georgia Power will harvest 9 million tons of coal ash landfilled at its 3.4-GW Plant Bowen station in Bartow County, Georgia, and beneficially use it in concrete for major regional construction projects. The project, announced on June 29, will be the “ single largest beneficial use project of its kind in the U.S., and the largest […]

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How a Solar and Storage Portfolio Ramped Up a City’s Sustainability and Financial Outlook

July 1, 2022 admin Business, c&i, city of white plains, climate change, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, dsd renewables, Environmental, full coverage, Legislative, New York, news, portfolio distributed generation, Renewables, Solar, top plant

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:14:00 +0000

The City of White Plains, New York, enlisted DSD Renewables to design, engineer, develop, construct, and finance a nine-site, 6.8-MW community solar and 1.7-MW/8-MWh energy storage portfolio. The

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RWE to Take Over Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW ‘Hydrogen-Ready’ Dutch Gas-Fired Plant

June 30, 2022 admin ammonia, Business, climate change, Coal, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, gas power plant, hydrogen, International, Japan, jera, magnum, mitsubishi power, netherlands, news, offshore wind, Renewables, Russia, rwe, Technology, vattenfall, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:10:00 +0000

German energy giant RWE will in September acquire Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW Magnum combined cycle gas-fired power station, a project in the Netherlands where work is underway to explore converting one of the three

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Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions

June 30, 2022 admin ace rule, carbon dioxide, clean air act, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, emissions, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, ghg, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, news, NOx, sox, Supreme Court

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:13:41 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact the federal government’s authority to enforce other regulations. The court in a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, on June 30 said the EPA does […]

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Support Reliability Reserve, Lifeline for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

June 30, 2022 admin Business, California, climate change, diablo canyon, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislation, news, Nuclear, PG&E, reliability, strategic reliability reserve, strategic reserve, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:52:21 +0000

California’s State Legislature has passed a bill that could extend the operating lives of existing generating facilities slated for retirement, potentially providing a new lifeline for the 2,240-MW Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP), which has a premature closure date in 2025. Both houses on June 29 passed AB-205 Energy, an energy trailer bill that Gov. […]

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SaskPower Picks SMR Technology for First Two Potential Nuclear Units

June 28, 2022 admin Business, bwrx-300, Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, ge hitachi, geh, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear reactor, opg, Safety, Saskatchewan, saskpower, smr, supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:23:47 +0000

SaskPower has chosen GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) technology for Saskatchewan’s first two nuclear units, which the provincial utility plans to deploy by the mid-2030s. The announcement on June 27 wraps up a four-year process to evaluate specific SMR designs and furthers planning for SaskPower, a Crown corporation, which has […]

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Massive Utah Hydrogen Storage Project Garners Finalized $504M DOE Loan Guarantee

June 9, 2022 admin Business, climate change, DOE, electrolyzers, Energy Storage, Environmental, finance, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, hydrogen, hydrogen hubs, hydrogen shot, loan guarantee, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, salt caverns, Technology, Utah

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:36:08 +0000

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first official loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project since 2014 will go to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage 1 project in Utah—one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen energy projects. The DOE on June 8 announced it closed on the $504.4 million loan guarantee for the first […]

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Fuel of the Future: How the World Can Build a True Hydrogen Economy

June 9, 2022 admin Carbon Capture, climate change, energy transition, Environmental, Fuel, fuel cells, full coverage, green hydrogen, honeywell, hydrogen, International, news, Research and Development

Credit to Author: Vimal Kapur| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:25:21 +0000

Versatile and plentiful, hydrogen could go a long way toward helping the world meet its climate targets. Already, it’s a component in all eight of the European Commission’s (EC’s) net-zero emissions scenarios for 2050. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Department of Energy has initiatives that will spur significant investment in the hydrogen economy—efforts boosted by […]

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