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DOD Picks BWXT Design for ‘Project Pele’ Prototype Nuclear Microreactor

June 9, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, Business, BWXT, defense microreactor, dod, engineering, Fuel, full coverage, htgr, microreactor, news, Nuclear, project pele, Research and Development, Safety, sco, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:10:44 +0000

The Department of Defense (DOD) has picked BWX Technologies’ (BWXT’s) microreactor design for its “Project Pele” full-scale transportable prototype. The selection closes out a much-watched contest with X-energy for the contract from the DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) to build and operate what could be the nation’s first advanced microreactor. Lynchburg, Virginia-based BWXT will now […]

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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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GE Debuts First 7HA.03 Gas Turbines at 1.3-GW Plant in Florida

June 8, 2022 admin affordability, Business, combined cycle plant, dania beach, efficiency, Environmental, flexibility, fpl, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, hydrogen, machine, Markets, news, plant, project, reliability, Renewables, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:47:03 +0000

The first two GE 7HA.03 machines—the largest 60-Hz heavy-duty gas turbines in the world and the most efficient in GE’s fleet—are now operational at Florida Power & Light’s (FPL’s) newly inaugurated 1,260-MW Dania Beach Clean Energy Center (DBEC) in Broward County. FPL officially declared the Dania Beach Clean Energy Center near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, commercially […]

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Much-Watched Reciprocating Engine Hydrogen Pilot Kicks Off at Michigan Power Plant

June 1, 2022 admin Business, climate change, Coal, coal retirements, decarbonization, Environmental, EPRI, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, hydrogen, International, news, reciprocating engines, rice, Solar, Technology, wartsila, wec energy, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:32:45 +0000

A landmark project to test fuel blends of up to 25% volume of hydrogen mixed with natural gas in reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICEs) has launched at WEC Energy Group’s 56-MW A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan. If successful, the pilot—one of the first of its kind in the U.S.—could provide key insight into how […]

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What Is Killing This Biomass Boiler? Marnie and Maya Are on the Case!

June 1, 2022 admin additives, Fiction, Fuel, furnace draft, marmaduke, marnie surfaceblow, root causes, soot blowers, Technology, waste to energy

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:11:00 +0000

When seeking answers to critical operations problems, consider that multiple root causes may be at play—thus requiring many different solutions. Watch as our heroines track down the culprits! As they trudged

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New Life for Dead and Dying Coal Plants?

June 1, 2022 admin AEP, Business, climate change, Coal, coal plant closings, coal plants, enel, engineering, EPRI, Fuel, full coverage, Markets, news, Nuclear, pratt street power plant, Technology

Credit to Author: Kennedy Maize| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:09:00 +0000

As coal plants are retired, power companies must decide what to do with sites. Some old plants have been added to the National Register of Historic Places and repurposed as commercial or office space, while

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Russians Achieve Milestone with New Nuclear Fuel

May 19, 2022 admin accident tolerant fuel, advanced technology fuel, ATF, Business, Fuel, full coverage, International, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, rosatom, Safety, Technology, tvel

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 16:09:00 +0000

Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region. The reactor tests have been ongoing since early 2019. The rods have four combinations of cladding and fuel matrix materials. […]

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First Hydrogen Burn at Long Ridge HA-Class Gas Turbine Marks Triumph for GE

April 22, 2022 admin 7ha.02, 9ha.02, Business, climate change, decarbonization, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas turbines, ge, ha, hydrogen, hydrogen blending, lm6000, long ridge, Markets, news, Plant Design, Power Demand

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:29:50 +0000

Hydrogen combustion has begun at the 485-MW Long Ridge Energy Terminal combined cycle power plant—a flagship GE HA-class project that is purpose-built to transition from natural gas to hydrogen blends and ultimately be capable of burning 100% hydrogen. While the sprawling multimodal facility in Hannibal, Ohio—which sits on the Ohio and West Virginia border—achieved commercial […]

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