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Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions

June 30, 2022 admin ace rule, carbon dioxide, clean air act, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, emissions, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, ghg, Legal & Regulatory, natural gas, news, NOx, sox, Supreme Court

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:13:41 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact the federal government’s authority to enforce other regulations. The court in a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, on June 30 said the EPA does […]

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Support Reliability Reserve, Lifeline for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

June 30, 2022 admin Business, California, climate change, diablo canyon, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislation, news, Nuclear, PG&E, reliability, strategic reliability reserve, strategic reserve, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:52:21 +0000

California’s State Legislature has passed a bill that could extend the operating lives of existing generating facilities slated for retirement, potentially providing a new lifeline for the 2,240-MW Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP), which has a premature closure date in 2025. Both houses on June 29 passed AB-205 Energy, an energy trailer bill that Gov. […]

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SaskPower Picks SMR Technology for First Two Potential Nuclear Units

June 28, 2022 admin Business, bwrx-300, Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, ge hitachi, geh, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear reactor, opg, Safety, Saskatchewan, saskpower, smr, supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:23:47 +0000

SaskPower has chosen GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) technology for Saskatchewan’s first two nuclear units, which the provincial utility plans to deploy by the mid-2030s. The announcement on June 27 wraps up a four-year process to evaluate specific SMR designs and furthers planning for SaskPower, a Crown corporation, which has […]

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NASA Picks Three Nuclear Power Concepts for Demonstration on the Moon

June 23, 2022 admin battelle, Business, engineering, fission, fission surface power, full coverage, inl, lunar power, microreactor, nasa, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, space power, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:38:28 +0000

Three teams comprising some of the most prominent engineering and technology firms in the U.S. will provide initial designs for a fission surface power (FSP) system as part of a federal project to demonstrate a 40-kW nuclear reactor for power applications on the moon. NASA and Battelle Energy Alliance—the contracted entity that manages and operates […]

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Large-Scale Enhanced Geothermal System Trial Successfully Completed

June 21, 2022 admin Business, DOE, egs, enhanced geothermal systems, full coverage, geothermal, geothermal drilling, hot dry rock, news, Research and Development, Technology, university of utah, utah forge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:33:40 +0000

A federally backed effort to advance enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technologies in Utah marked a significant milestone with successful completion of its first large-scale 10-day simulation in a deep-deviated well. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), which is sited near the town of Milford on the […]

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Southern Co. Gas-Fired Demonstration Validates 20% Hydrogen Fuel Blend

June 16, 2022 admin Business, dln, engineering, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, Georgia Power, hydrogen, m501g, mitsubishi power, natural gas fuel blend, nedo, news, plant mcdonough-atkinson, Research and Development, Southern Co., Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:50:51 +0000

A demonstration project at Georgia Power’s 2.5-GW natural gas–fired Plant McDonough-Atkinson facility has validated a natural gas fuel blend with 20% hydrogen by volume on one of its six Mitsubishi Power advanced-class gas turbines. The test, one of the largest of its kind to date, provided an approximately 7% reduction in carbon emissions compared to […]

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Australian Energy Crisis Prompts Suspension of National Electricity Market

June 16, 2022 admin aemo, Australia, Business, Coal, forced outages, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, International, market incentives, Markets, national electricity market, news, Power Demand, Renewables, spot markets, wholesale markets

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:35:38 +0000

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) on June 15 indefinitely suspended spot markets in all regions of its National Electricity Market (NEM), citing critical power generation supply shortfalls that it said made it “impossible to continue” operations under national electricity rules. AEMO—the independent system operator (ISO) that operates the competitive market serving New South Wales, […]

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Finnish Nuclear Plant Under Construction Since 2005 Faces Yet Another Delay

June 16, 2022 admin Construction, EPR, full coverage, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, olkiluoto 3, TVO

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:02:37 +0000

Commercial operation of Olkiluoto 3 (OL3), a nuclear power plant (NPP) unit that has been under construction in Finland for nearly 17 years, will be delayed for another three months due to foreign material issues observed in the turbine’s steam reheater, plant owner Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) reported on June 15. The setback is just […]

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Hydrogen Poised to Play Prominent Role in the World’s Energy Transition

June 16, 2022 admin Business, decarbonization, energy transition, fuel cells, full coverage, hydrogen, International, news, plug power, power podcasts, Renewables, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:05:44 +0000

People around the world are searching for ways to decarbonize, and green hydrogen is a fuel that can help in that effort. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis using renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. Although most hydrogen produced today is made from natural gas, often referred to as gray hydrogen, new capacity […]

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Latest APR-1400 Reactor Now Online at South Korea’s Shin Hanul Nuclear Plant

June 11, 2022 admin apr-1400, barakah, full coverage, kepco, khnp, korea hydro & nuclear power co., news, Nuclear, nuclear safety, shin hanul, shin kori, United Arab Emirates

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 20:10:33 +0000

The first of what could be three APR-1400 nuclear reactors at the Shin Hanul site in South Korea is now supplying electricity to the country’s power grid. Unit 1 at Shin Hanul is a 1,400-MW reactor. It was connected to the grid on June 9, just more than two weeks after the pressurized water reactor […]

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