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Is Carbon Management the Key to Reaching Net Zero?

May 28, 2022 admin Carbon Capture, Commentary, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, Morgan Lewis

Credit to Author: Kirstin Gibbs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:48:51 +0000

Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions last year announced plans to develop a new carbon capture and storage project across the Midwest. The project seeks to capture carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted into the atmosphere from biorefineries, such as ethanol plants, compress the captured carbon dioxide, and transport it through a pipeline to North […]

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Is Carbon Management the Key to Reaching Net Zero?

May 28, 2022 admin Carbon Capture, Commentary, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, Morgan Lewis

Credit to Author: Kirstin Gibbs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:48:51 +0000

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SRP Warns Arizona Regulator Reliability at Risk by 2024 without Gas Plant Expansion

May 19, 2022 admin aeroderivative gas turbines, Arizona, arizona corporation commission, Business, climate change, coolidge generating station, Environmental, environmental justice, full coverage, Gas, gas power, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, lm6000, Markets, news, PHOENIX, Salt River Project

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:25:04 +0000

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) is seeking a rehearing and reconsideration of the Arizona Corporation Commission’s (ACC’s) denial of a major gas power plant expansion, which the public power utility has stressed will be crucial for near-term system reliability and long-term renewable integration. In a filing on May 16, SRP urged […]

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UK Leans Heavily on Nuclear in Bold New Energy Strategy

May 2, 2022 admin Business, climate change, Coal, energy security, energy strategy, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, gas power, History, hydrogen, International, Legal & Regulatory, lng, net-zero, news, Nuclear, offshore wind, Policy, Rolls-Royce, Russia, Technology, tidal power, trends, uk, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:16:00 +0000

A long-awaited energy strategy published by the UK government on April 6 lays out bold commitments that tackle Great Britain’s multi-pronged challenges, including achieving net-zero carbon emissions while

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Administration, NRC, Nuclear Industry Look Ahead to Uncertain Territory

May 2, 2022 admin AI, ammonia, biden administration, Business, DOE, full coverage, History, hydrogen, iiot, iiot power, Legal & Regulatory, molten salt reactors, news, NRC, Nuclear, regulatory, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Kennedy Maize| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:13:00 +0000

The Biden administration is fully behind development of new nuclear power technology. It is encouraging the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to look at “new approaches to regulation” as advanced

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White House Calls on Defense Production Act to Bolster EV Battery Supply

April 21, 2022 admin batteries, biden, Commentary, Electric vehicles, evs, Legal & Regulatory, minerals

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:23:31 +0000

When the White House signed an executive order to get to 50% electric vehicle (EV) sales share by 2030 while relying on American manufacturing, there were some serious concerns about whether the U.S. could make that many EVs, and then create the infrastructure in time to support that many new EVs on the road. COMMENTARY […]

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EPA Proposes Tighter Controls on NOx Emissions from Power Plants, Industrial Sources

April 14, 2022 admin Coal, csapr, Environmental, EPA, fossil fuel plants, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, news, NOx, ozone

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:57:32 +0000

A sweeping new proposed rule published in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 6 establishes new nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions budgets that will require fossil fuel–fired power plants in 25 states to participate in an allowance-based ozone season trading program starting in 2023. The proposal, which builds on the agency’s […]

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Arizona Regulator Rejects SRP’s 820-MW Aeroderivative Gas-Fired Expansion

April 14, 2022 admin aeroderivative, Arizona, batteries, Business, coolidge, Environmental, environmenttal justice, flexibility, full coverage, Gas, gas power, Legal & Regulatory, news, Power Demand, reliability, Salt River Project, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:39:11 +0000

The Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC) has delivered a major blow to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District’s (SRP’s) urgent plans to expand the 575-MW gas-fired Coolidge Generating Station with 820 MW of fast-start capacity. The ACC in a 4–1 vote on April 12 denied approval of the public power utility’s Certificate of […]

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SCOTUS Reinstates Trump-Era Environmental Certification Rule

April 7, 2022 admin Clean Water Act, Coal, Environmental, ferc, full coverage, Gas, Hydro, Legal & Regulatory, news, Scotus, section 401, Water, WOTUS

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:57:02 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 6 reinstated a Trump-era environmental rule that limited state and tribal roles in enforcing a section of the Clean Water Act (CWA) related to project certification. The order is a temporary triumph for eight states and three energy trade associations, including the National Hydropower Association (NHA). The high court’s […]

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California and Oregon Sail Forward on Offshore Wind

April 1, 2022 admin California, Commentary, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, offshore wind, Oregon, regulatory, stoel rives

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:09:00 +0000

The Biden administration in 2021 announced its goal of developing 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. Deep water off the West Coast means that any wind energy generation on this side of the U.S. must float

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