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How Rural Communities Can Benefit from the Energy Transition

November 3, 2022 admin distributed energy, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, energy security, Energy Storage, full coverage, hybrid power, inflation reduction act, irã, microgrid, news, power, power podcasts, Renewables, rural electric cooperatives, rural power, Solar, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:57:22 +0000

Economic development can be a challenge for leaders in rural communities. Often, it’s hard to attract businesses to rural areas because the local workforce may not have the skills or numbers required to meet companies’ needs. But opportunities that haven’t been widely available in the past exist today for rural communities due to the energy […]

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Six Major Electric Utilities Join Forces to Pursue a Southeastern Hydrogen Hub

November 3, 2022 admin Business, climate change, Coal, DOE, dominion energy, duke energy, Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, Hydro, hydrogen, hydrogen hub, iija, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, Southern Co., TVA

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:48:30 +0000

Marking intent interest from the power sector in hydrogen’s decarbonization potential, six major utilities—Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Louisville Gas & Electric Co. (LG&E), Kentucky Utilities Co. (KU), Southern Co., and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)—have announced they will jointly pursue federal financial support for a Southeast Hydrogen Hub. The utilities, along with Battelle, an independent […]

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Potential Deal Brewing for Second Polish Nuclear Plant Based on South Korean Technology

November 2, 2022 admin AP1000, apr1400, Business, engineering, full coverage, International, Markets, news, Nuclear, PG&E, Plant Design, Poland, South korea, Technology, Westinghouse, ze pak

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:38:56 +0000

Days after Poland chose Westinghouse to supply its AP1000 technology to the country’s first nuclear plant in Pomerania, northern Poland, the government and two Polish energy firms signed a letter of intent with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to “push ahead” with development of a second nuclear plant based on APR1400 technology in Pątnów, […]

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A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

November 2, 2022 admin ATF, bge, Business, calvert cliffs, constellation, Environmental, Exelon, Fuel, full coverage, History, Legislative, licensing, Management, news, NRC, Nuclear, Safety, Technology, top plant, workforce

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:18:00 +0000

Baltimore Gas & Electric set out to build the 1.8-GW Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in 1967 because fossil energy was becoming expensive and controversial. Over its nearly 50 years of operation

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Idiot or Maniac: Where Does Your Power Company Fit in the Discussion?

November 2, 2022 admin climate change, Coal, Commentary, distributed energy, distributed energy conference, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environmental, experience power, full coverage, Gas, hydrogen, hydrogenext, International, news, power, Renewables, Solar, transition, tri-state generation and transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:16:00 +0000

It’s kind of exciting to be able to write that events are back in full swing. In case you missed it, POWER hosted the co-located Experience POWER, Distributed Energy Conference, and HydrogeNext events, Oct

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History of Power: Dominion Energy’s Fluid Transition

November 1, 2022 admin Business, climate change, Coal, Dominion, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, History, Hydro, Management, news, Nuclear, offshore wind, Solar, Technology, utility spotlight, Wind, workforce

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:15:00 +0000

A company that has corporate roots that go back to the Colonial era, Dominion Energy has been shaped by acquisitions and market forces. It is now in the midst of an extraordinary transformation to expand its

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China Approves Commissioning of Thorium-Powered Reactor

November 1, 2022 admin Business, China, engineering, full coverage, International, molten salt reactor, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, pilot plant, r&d, Research and Development, Technology, thorium, uranium

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:13:00 +0000

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Aug. 2 gave Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) the green light to commission the experimental 2-MWth thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR-LF1) at

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Why Sulfur Oxides Are Bad and How Flue Gas Desulfurization Technology Works

November 1, 2022 admin biomass, Coal, emissions, emissions controls, Environmental, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FGD, flue gas desulfurization, full coverage, Gas, International, news, O&M, power, SO2, sox, waste to energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:12:00 +0000

Sulfur oxides (SO x ) have several harmful effects both to the environment, and to human and animal health. Much of the SO x in the atmosphere comes from the burning of fossil fuels by power plants and other

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European Energy Crisis Prompts Utility Takeovers in Germany, France

November 1, 2022 admin Business, Coal, EDF, energy crisis, energy security, Europe, fortum, France, France nuclear, full coverage, Gas, GERMANY, International, Management, news, Nuclear, trends, uniper

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

With winter fast approaching, and the dreaded effects of extreme natural gas price levels and volatility looming, together with unprecedented uncertainty of fuel supply, governments in Germany and France have

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PacifiCorp, TerraPower Evaluating Deployment of Up to Five Additional Natrium Advanced Reactors

October 28, 2022 admin Business, Coal, coal plants, DOE, full coverage, natrium, news, Nuclear, pacificorp, Technology, terrapower

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:15:45 +0000

Regulated utility PacifiCorp has launched a joint study with nuclear technology firm TerraPower to evaluate the feasibility of deploying up to five additional Natrium pool-type sodium fast reactors (SFRs) and integrated energy storage systems at retired coal plant sites in the utility’s service territory by 2035. The joint study “will evaluate, among other things, the […]

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