Mobility, Flexibility, Scalability: SMRs Forging Nuclear’s Future

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:08 +0000

The need for emissions-free power generation, along with the ability to provide more power when and where it’s needed, is driving research and development of smaller nuclear reactors. Energy industry

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Energy Storage, VPPs Accelerate Growth in Hybrid Power

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:30:00 +0000

The need for flexibility, sustainability, reliability, and resiliency in the electricity sector is bringing varied technologies together in the power generation mix. Hybrid power plants are increasingly part

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The Great Electricity Transmission Debate — How Much Is Enough?

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 20:42:29 +0000

Many people want to build new transmission lines for renewable energy like solar and wind. We dive into the issues, pro and con, on this matter.

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New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000

Hydrogen demand projection through 2100The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.

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Jigar Shah Has $40 Billion To Lend Green Energy Projects Via US DOE

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:43:21 +0000

Podcast Jigar ShahShah’s perspective is that investing 3-5 times more in transmission and expecting improvements in battery storage is a risky strategy. Shah is bullish on nuclear, especially putting new SMRs on retiring coal plants where transmission is already built. 

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