Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:11:00 +0000
NTPC, India’s largest energy conglomerate and its largest coal generator, in March commissioned the country’s first supercritical coal-fired plant equipped with an air-cooled condenser (ACC). The effort
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:09:00 +0000
When investigating any potential problem, keep your eyes and your mind open to other possible dangers. “I am starting to wonder if you accepted this assignment because of … that,” stated Maya Sharma
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:26:49 +0000
Last Energy, a U.S.-based micro modular nuclear technology firm and project developer, has secured power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 34 PWR-20 small modular reactor (SMR) units with four industrial partners in the UK and Poland. The deals, which represent a combined $18.9 in power sales, mark “the largest pipeline of new nuclear power plants under […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:53:06 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:05:46 +0000
A 1.2-GW hydrogen-capable combined cycle power project that Entergy Texas has proposed to build in Orange County, Texas, will be spearheaded by an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) consortium led by Mitsubishi Power, Sargent & Lundy, and TIC. Construction of the $1.19 billion Orange County Advanced Power Station (OCAPS), which received the Public Utility Commission […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:25:48 +0000
Marking a major milestone, Centrus Energy—a firm under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) with domestic technology—on Feb. 9 said it completed construction and initial testing of its advanced uranium enrichment centrifuge cascade as well as most of its associated support systems. Once the company […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:34:34 +0000
Japanese power generator JERA has launched commercial operation of the first of three liquefied natural gas (LNG)–fueled 650-MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units that will modernize the Anegasaki Thermal Power Station, a mammoth 3.2-GW, six-unit gas and oil power plant in Chiba Prefecture. The new Anegasaki Thermal Power Station Unit 1, opened on Feb. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Amaury Perez Sanchez| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:10:03 +0000
Distributed generation stands out in the Cuban power system, where there are hundreds of units dispersed throughout the country. In times of contingency, and as usually happens when a hurricane hits the country, distributed generation ensures the vitality of electrical service through interconnected systems in the form of “islands.” Of the slightly more than 6,000 […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:12:00 +0000
The recent shake-up in natural gas markets and their ensuing impact on energy security, and geopolitical tension, dramatically altered the trajectory of global coal-fired generation, sending it soaring to
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000
In July 1968, the U.S. Army sent the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Sturgis, to the Panama Canal to help overcome a regional hydroelectric power plant shortage, which was driven by a severe
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