Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:03:24 +0000
Scientists who maintain the world’s temperature records, which date back to 1880, calculate a global temperature anomaly each year to determine how much temperatures have changed compared to temperatures from […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:57:15 +0000
Longview Fusion Energy, a firm leveraging the recent fusion breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), has secured a contract with engineering, procurement, and construction specialist Fluor to design what […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:21:56 +0000
(Updated March 7 with responses from EPA): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will drop requirements covering existing natural gas-fired power plants in its final Section 111 rule regulating power […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:43:10 +0000
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) explains that community solar, also known as shared solar or solar gardens, is a distributed solar energy deployment model that allows customers to buy […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:24:27 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has directed its staff to publish a proposed rule and draft guidance to create Part 53, a much-awaited risk-informed and technology-inclusive licensing framework geared toward […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:46 +0000
As the global power industry pivots toward decarbonization and decentralization, major manufacturers of diesel and gas engines are strategically adapting to change. While large power plants frequently garner
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:44 +0000
The 2.6-GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:38 +0000
The energy workforce added nearly 300,000 jobs in 2022, increasing to more than 8.1 million total jobs at the end of the year, according to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 2023 U.S. Energy and
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:33 +0000
The world is undergoing a remarkable energy transition. Clean power systems are in high demand, offering a bright future for hydrogen and renewables. However, energy storage projects that may look promising
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:31 +0000
There are literally dozens of small modular reactor (SMR) and microreactor designs being developed by different companies around the world, and some of the work has been going on for decades. Yet, only two
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