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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:09:00 +0000
JX Nippon Acquires NRG’s Share of Petra Nova Carbon Capture Plant for $3.6 Million. ENEOS Group, a Japanese energy and non-ferrous metals business group that owns JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration, will
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:17:49 +0000
A new 16-GW hydropower project in China and a 9-GW plant in Indonesia are among several projects being highlighted as part of Global Hydropower Day, being celebrated Oct. 11 as the hydro sector notes the importance of the technology to the world’s power generation. The Baihetan Hydropower Station in China is being developed by Jinsha […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:43:36 +0000
The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) will install 250 MW of temporary reserve power—via eight trailer-mounted GE Gas Power TM2500 mobile aeroderivative gas turbine units—to secure critical power supplies this winter. GE Gas Power said the units, which will be located at GE’s Manufacturing Center in Birr, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, near […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 04:09:27 +0000
The deployment of new power plants in the U.S. over the past 14 decades has hinged on policies, markets, technologies, and new industry players. Every decade has presented its own state of multidimensional, multivariate complexity. The ongoing “energy transition,” which has been characterized by the addition of smaller, carbon-free resources, marks another pivotal period in […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:53:38 +0000
A new study from business and environmental researchers at Oxford University disputes the notion that a strategy to transition global power generation toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels is too expensive to pursue. The study, released Sept. 13 and published in the journal Joule, reports that decarbonizing the world’s energy systems would save […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:30:15 +0000
California’s grid operator issued a Stage 3 energy emergency alert (EEA) at 5:17 p.m. PST on Sept. 6, warning it would order rotating power outages to lower soaring power demand and stabilize its grid, if necessary. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) cautiously raised the emergency alert from Stage 2, which it had declared earlier […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:20:00 +0000
When a sinkhole was discovered near the base of the Boone Dam embankment, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s dam safety engineers went to work determining the best fix. The complexity of the work and quality
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:00 +0000
While hydropower provides about 16% of global electricity generation today, climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that could translate into a spectrum of risks for hydropower production. A recent study published in the journal Water estimates 61% of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:08:48 +0000
President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should provide further impetus for growth of U.S. renewable energy, coming on the heels of a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that installations of solar and wind power accounted for more than two-thirds of new domestic utility-scale generation in the first six months […]
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