Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:11:00 +0000
War rages in Europe. Natural gas prices are through the roof. Drought threatens hydro production. Weather extremes are becoming commonplace. Supply chains are strained. Demand for electricity is headed
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:10:00 +0000
German energy giant RWE will in September acquire Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW Magnum combined cycle gas-fired power station, a project in the Netherlands where work is underway to explore converting one of the three
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:47:05 +0000
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) on June 22 initiated the first step to lift a suspension of its National Electricity Market (NEM), citing a “clear improvement in market conditions.” The measure comes more than a week since it indefinitely suspended spot markets in all regions of its NEM, given critical power generation supply shortfalls […]
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:36:08 +0000
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first official loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project since 2014 will go to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage 1 project in Utah—one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen energy projects. The DOE on June 8 announced it closed on the $504.4 million loan guarantee for the first […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jon Irvine| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:35:15 +0000
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that one is present. An operations team cannot adequately put a sufficient maintenance plan in place if there is no awareness that maintenance is required. One particular area that used to suffer much more regularly from this lack of diagnosis in a power plant setting is […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:47:03 +0000
The first two GE 7HA.03 machines—the largest 60-Hz heavy-duty gas turbines in the world and the most efficient in GE’s fleet—are now operational at Florida Power & Light’s (FPL’s) newly inaugurated 1,260-MW Dania Beach Clean Energy Center (DBEC) in Broward County. FPL officially declared the Dania Beach Clean Energy Center near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, commercially […]
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