Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 06:00:17 +0000
If utilities modernize the way they select the resources they run each day, they can save carbon and reduce energy prices. Over the past three years, energy market prices have been exceptionally volatile. Natural gas prices spiked then tanked at the end of 2019 and wholesale market prices followed. When COVID-19 lockdowns were enacted, energy […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:05:08 +0000
A lobbying group for China’s power generation sector said the country will add about 70 GW of fossil fuel-powered capacity this year, even as renewable energy is set to provide more than half of China’s electricity production in 2023. The China Electricity Council in a report published Jan. 19 said the 70 GW of new […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:05:08 +0000
A lobbying group for China’s power generation sector said the country will add about 70 GW of fossil fuel-powered capacity this year, even as renewable energy is set to provide more than half of China’s electricity production in 2023. The China Electricity Council in a report published Jan. 19 said the 70 GW of new […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:32:32 +0000
A North Carolina-based group that provides battery energy storage and software technology is set to co-locate 420 MWh of storage at four natural gas-fired facilities in California. Durham-headquartered FlexGen Power Systems on Jan. 17 said it would provide energy storage to Middle River Power (MRP), a Chicago, Illinois-based independent power company. MRP was created in […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:10:48 +0000
There’s a lot to like in the new US transportation decarbonization blueprint. It’s actually very good in most ways, which is excellent to see given that the US hydrogen strategy from late last year was so poor. And it’s needed.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:38:26 +0000
Norway is just a rich, European Algeria with a big piggybank. That means it’s going to survive the transition adequately, but its economy is going to radically transform.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 15:11:17 +0000
A six-month-long project to demolish the last coal-fired unit at Lakeland Electric’s C.D. McIntosh Power Plant in Lakeland, Florida, reached a milestone on Jan. 14 with the implosion of the facility’s 260-foot stack and 90-foot selective catalytic reduction unit (video below). Unit 3 at McIntosh, the plant’s last operating coal-fired unit, was closed in 2021, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:59:22 +0000
As Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.” But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won’t be heavy, sour, far from water crude.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:30:39 +0000
ChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:10:04 +0000
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has approved retirement of the Cumberland coal-fired power plant, with officials on Jan. 10 saying the utility will replace one of the plant’s two units with a 1,450-MW natural gas-fired combined cycle facility at the site. The TVA has held public meetings over the past few years amid much discussion […]
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