Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:50:35 +0000
In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:31:40 +0000
Several executives in the power generation space weighed in for POWER’s recent report on supply chain issues in the sector. Sourcing of equipment also was a hot topic in POWER’s 2023 forecast for the industry. It’s no surprise. The power sector is not exempt from the problems that have impacted business and industry worldwide, from […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:05:04 +0000
Harvest Thermal uses CO2-based heat pumps from Sanden with hot water heat storage to time arbitrage electricity rates from solar peaks to evening comfort.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:16:11 +0000
The pandemic exposed issues with the global supply chain that provides resources for power generation. The pressure of having enough equipment to meet industry needs has spurred an emphasis on domestic
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:16:11 +0000
The pandemic exposed issues with the global supply chain that provides resources for power generation. The pressure of having enough equipment to meet industry needs has spurred an emphasis on domestic
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:00:42 +0000
In the past three years, another nonsensical idea has sprung up to somehow allow shipping of molecules for energy. The premise is that liquified natural gas (LNG) goes in one direction and liquified CO2 (l-CO2) gets put in the same tanks and goes the other way. It sounds so obvious! The premise is that CO2 […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:14:47 +0000
It is hard to choose the right metaphor. Has the Australian gas industry shot itself in the foot, painted itself into a corner, or is it just throwing a hissy fit? Maybe it has just lost the plot? Perhaps breathing too much of its own product? Gas, gas baby! Recent Australian government legislation has capped […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:37:03 +0000
Major French utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) said it will again extend maintenance outages at some of its nuclear reactors by several months, meaning France will continue to import power and putting more strain on the country’s supply of electricity. EDF has returned some nuclear units to service in the past several weeks, but […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 04:26:18 +0000
The Australian federal parliament recalled to pass energy legislation, gas companies threatening to withhold supply, massive war profits from the Ukraine crisis, coal-fired power stations breaking down, government legislating a price cap, utilities jockeying for EV charging business, renewables taking a large bite out of energy grid supply — all this has become normal in […]
Credit to Author: Steve Beddick| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:05:11 +0000
As a result of legislative actions across the U.S., acquiring permits for greenfield natural gas-powered plants has increasingly become a challenge. In New York, for example, state officials denied permits for two proposed natural gas-powered plants because they were seen as hurdles to achieving greenhouse gas emissions goals. In 2020, the New Mexico Public Regulation […]
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