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Governor to TVA: Keep Paradise Coal Unit Open

January 9, 2019 admin Business, Coal, combined cycle, Fuel, Gas, kentucky, Legislative, natural gas, news, paradise power plant, tennessee valley authority, TVA, workforce

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:50:07 +0000

In a letter addressed to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) CEO Bill Johnson, Kentucky Gov. Matthew G. Bevin said it “would be a huge mistake” to permanently shut down Paradise Unit 3—the last operating coal unit at the Paradise site in Muhlenburg County, Kentucky. According to the governor, “the impact on our economy and our region’s […]

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10 Takeaways from the IEA’s Newest World Energy Outlook

January 1, 2019 admin Business, climate change, Coal, distributed energy, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Environmental, flexibility, Fuel, Gas, general, geothermal, History, iea, International, investment, news, Nuclear, ownership, Power Demand, power supply transformation, renewable costs, Renewables, Solar, Technology, timeline, variable sources, wholesale power markets, Wind, world energy outlook 2018

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) deemed growth and disruptions of the world’s power sector so significant to the future of energy, it dedicated—for the first time—a four-chapter “special focus”

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Bipartisan Nuclear Modernization Bill Clears Congress

December 27, 2018 admin accident tolerant fuel, advanced nuclear technology, baffle bolts, Business, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, nei, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear licensing, nuclear plant modernization, reactors, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:24:36 +0000

A bipartisan bill to modernize regulation of the nation’s nuclear power fleet passed in the U.S. Senate on Dec. 20 and the House on Dec. 21 without much opposition. It now heads to President Trump. S.512, better known as the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), seeks to provide a program to develop […]

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NERC: Accelerated Coal and Nuclear Retirements Pose Limited Reliability Risks

December 21, 2018 admin accelerated scenario, Business, Coal, Fuel, Gas, Markets, nerc, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, reliability, Renewables, retirements, scenario, stress test, supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:37:32 +0000

The accelerated retirement of coal-fired and nuclear generation by 2022 could adversely affect reliability in four regions, including in the east and over a swathe of the central U.S., the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) warned as it released findings from a “stress-test” scenario. But the entity tasked with ensuring reliability and security of […]

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Higher ethanol blend can keep fuel prices low – Imee Marcos

December 11, 2018 admin ethanol, Fuel, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos, Latest News Stories, Nation, Philippine news updates

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:11:59 +0000

Increasing the ethanol blend in gasoline products can keep fuel prices in the country low, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos said on Tuesday.

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Industry Groups to Congress: Inaction on Nuclear Waste Not an Option

December 6, 2018 admin DOE, Fuel, nei, news, Nuclear, nuclear waste, Spent nuclear fuel, Yucca Mountain

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:28:16 +0000

Fifteen notable industry groups have urged Congressional leaders to act on the federal used nuclear fuel program, noting no progress on the Yucca Mountain repository license application and consolidated interim storage is “untenable.” The broad coalition of labor unions, state public service commissioners, clean energy organizations, and energy trade associations told U.S. House and Senate […]

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Paris fears new protest violence despite Macron’s retreat

December 6, 2018 admin Excise Tax, France, Fuel, international news, Latest News Stories, Macron, news, Paris, protest, Taxation, World, World News

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:25:20 +0000

Paris police and store owners were bracing for new violence at protests despite President Emmanuel Macron’s surrender over a fuel tax hike.

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PJM: Fuel Supply Resilience Is Sound—For Now

November 6, 2018 admin DOE, ferc, Fuel, fuel supply, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, pjm, reliability, resilience

Fuel delivery systems in PJM Interconnection’s vast footprint can generally withstand an extended period of stress and remain reliable, though extreme scenarios could impact the grid, the nation’s largest system operator concluded in a high-profile study. PJM, whose system covers 13 states and 65 million people, launched the study this May as the federal government, […]

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U.S. Biomass Power, Dampened by Market Forces, Fights to Stay Ablaze

October 1, 2018 admin anaerobic digestion, and pyrolysis, biomass, biomass power association, Business, cbea, climate change, co-firing, combustion, Connecticut, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Dominion, EIA, Electric vehicles, Environmental, evs, finance, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, news, Renewables, supply chains, Technology, waste to energy

Though experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of uneconomic

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Demonstration Advances to Produce Hydrogen Using Molten Salt Reactor Nuclear Technology

September 6, 2018 admin chemical feedstock, Environmental, Fuel, Gas, hydrogen, industrial, molten salt reactor, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, Technology, terrestial, world gas conference

Terrestrial Energy USA, a company that is developing a fourth-generation molten salt nuclear reactor, has joined forces with Southern Co. and several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, in a research and development (R&D) project that seeks to pin down whether its reactor technology can produce hydrogen efficiently using nuclear heat and power. The […]

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