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Bipartisan Senators Move to Cement Nuclear Power’s Future

March 28, 2019 admin advanced nuclear, bn-800, China, fast reactors, Fuel, haleu, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, nela, news, Nuclear, nuclear workforce, r&d, Research and Development, Russia, Senate, smrs, supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:13:28 +0000

A wide-ranging bill introduced by a large group of bipartisan U.S. senators on March 27 seeks to cement the role advanced nuclear reactors will play in the nation’s future power mix. The “Nuclear Energy Leadership Act” (NELA), aims to “reestablish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy,” which has been lost to state-sponsored development in Russia and […]

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POWER Notebook: First Order for Novel Gas Turbine; Three Mile Island Accident Turns 40; PG&E Pushes Back on Judge’s Proposal

March 25, 2019 admin Afghanistan, Business, court, courts, Environmental, Exelon, Gas, judge, Legal & Regulatory, news, notebook, Nuclear, nuclear subsidies, Pennsylvania, PG&E, siemens, stg-a45, three mile island, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:26:11 +0000

Siemens, Three Mile Island, and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) made notable headlines over recent days. Here is this week’s POWER notebook. Siemens Bags First Order for 41-MW Aeroderivative Gas Unit Siemens on March 25 said it received its first order for its newest aeroderivative gas turbine offering—the SGT-A45. The buyer, Bayat Power, a subsidiary […]

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Vogtle Loan Guarantees Praised, Criticized

March 23, 2019 admin aea, AP1000, Business, Georgia, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, Nuclear, rick perry, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:39:51 +0000

Energy Secretary Rick Perry on March 22 said his department will guarantee up to $3.7 billion in additional loans to finance continued construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. While Perry and other government officials stressed the importance of the project to the U.S. nuclear industry, critics called it a […]

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Trump Administration Set to Guarantee $3.7 Billion to Finish Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

March 20, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, Georgia Power, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, plant vogtle, Southern Co., Trump, Vogtle nuclear power plant, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:58:56 +0000

Energy Secretary Rick Perry will reportedly announce March 22 that the Trump administration will finalize $3.7 billion in loan guarantees to support completion of the Vogtle nuclear plant construction project. The announcement is expected when Perry visits the site near Waynesboro, Georgia, on Friday along with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Southern Co. CEO Tom […]

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Dominion Reaches Deal to Keep Millstone Nuclear Plant Open

March 17, 2019 admin dominion energy, Legal & Regulatory, millstone power station, news, Nuclear, power purchase agreement

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:45:22 +0000

Dominion Energy has reached an agreement with utilities in Connecticut to keep the Millstone Power Station, the state’s only nuclear power plant, in service for at least another decade. Dominion announced the deal March 15, the deadline the company had to tell ISO New England, the regional grid operator, whether it would retire the two […]

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Westmoreland Coal Emerges From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

March 17, 2019 admin Business, Coal, colstrip, Legal & Regulatory, martin purvis, Montana, news, rosebud mine, westmoreland coal company

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:56:56 +0000

Westmoreland Coal Company, the nation’s largest independent coal producer, announced March 15 that it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will operate as a new, privately held company. The company, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, near Denver, said its assets, including three mines in Montana, are now owned and operated by Westmoreland Mining LLC, a […]

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Power Companies Refute Findings of Widespread Coal Plant Groundwater Contamination

March 7, 2019 admin Business, closure, Coal, coal ash, data, Environmental, EPA, groundwater, impoundments, landfills, Legal & Regulatory, monitoring, news, report, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:31:43 +0000

An estimated 91% of U.S. coal power plants that submitted groundwater monitoring data as required by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2015 Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) rule have unsafe levels of one or more contaminants, a collaborative analysis of the monitoring data by several environmental groups suggests. The March 4 report is significant because power […]

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Carbon Capture Proposed to Save New Mexico Coal Plant

March 3, 2019 admin acme equities, Business, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, Coal, farmington, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, NEW MEXICO, news, pnm, public service co. of new mexico, san juan generating station

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:43:20 +0000

The New York-based hedge fund aiming to take over New Mexico’s San Juan Generating Station (SJGS), targeted for closure by state lawmakers, wants to refit the 46-year-old, coal-fired plant to use carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology. Acme Equities LLC said last week that retrofitting the 847-MW plant with CCS technology would cut carbon emissions […]

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THE BIG PICTURE: Japan’s Nuclear Comeback

March 1, 2019 admin big picture, Business, fukushima, fukushima catastrophe, infographic, Infographics, International, Japan, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear restarts, Technology, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 05:00:38 +0000

After the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011, Japan issued stringent safety regulations and reviews that affected its entire 50-reactor fleet. It meant that as each Japanese nuclear reactor entered its scheduled maintenance and refueling outage, it could not returned to operation until restart […]

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Should a Power Company Be Held Responsible for Wildfires?

March 1, 2019 admin bankruptcy, Business, calfire, California, camp fire, Commentary, courts, damage, lawsuit, Legal & Regulatory, liability, news, O&M, pacific gas and electric, PG&E, probation, Safety, T&D, Wildfire

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve been following the news, you know that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it is facing tens of billions of dollars in liability for

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