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Report: Gas-Fired Generation Will Rise in Pennsylvania as Coal, Nuclear Decline

September 4, 2019 admin Coal, Gas, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Pennsylvania, pjm interconnection, puc, Renewables, three mile island

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 18:19:09 +0000

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Power generation from natural gas is expected to rise in Pennsylvania over the next few years, according to the state Public Utility Commission’s (PUC’s) annual report on generation and transmission and distribution capacity released in late August. The PUC’s “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania 2018-2023” report made public last week projects gas-fired power generation will […]

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Ohio Lawmakers Announce Plan to Subsidize Nuclear Plants

April 14, 2019 admin Business, Coal, Gas, Legislative, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Ohio, pjm interconnection, Renewables, subsidies, surcharge

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:28:09 +0000

Ohio lawmakers on April 12 announced a plan to provide financial support to the state’s two nuclear power plants by adding a surcharge to customers’ electric bills. The bill’s supporters said it also would generate as much as $300 million annually for clean power generation in Ohio, though the measure calls for abolishing mandates for […]

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Gas Now Tops Coal in PJM, but Nuclear Still No. 1

March 19, 2019 admin Business, Coal, coal retirements, fuel supply, Gas, natural gas, news, Nuclear, nuclear retirements, pjm interconnection, polar vortex, Renewables, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:22:55 +0000

A report from an independent market monitor for PJM Interconnection shows that natural gas-fired power generation topped coal-fired output in PJM in 2018, the first time that gas has topped coal in the history of the largest U.S. grid operator. The “2018 State of the Market” report from Monitoring Analytics LLC, which includes Volume 1 […]

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‘Technically Sophisticated’ Combined Cycle Plant Comes Online

January 15, 2019 admin Business, cabot oil & gas, combined cycle, Gas, ge, ha series gas turbine, Instrumentation & Controls, invenergy, kiewit, kinder morgan, news, Pennsylvania, pjm interconnection, Plant Design, Renewables, Solar, Technology, tennessee gas pipeline, ugi

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:59:35 +0000

The Lackawanna Energy Center in Pennsylvania entered commercial operation Jan. 15, with the $1.5 billion project heralded by its developer, Invenergy, as among the most “technically sophisticated” combined cycle natural gas-fired plants in operation. The 1,485-MW facility, in the borough of Jessup in Lackawanna County, was completed ahead of schedule and features three General Electric […]

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West Virginia Coal Plant Will Remain Open Until 2022

October 19, 2018 admin aes, Business, Coal, FirstEnergy, firstenergy solutions, news, pjm, pjm interconnection

FirstEnergy on October 18 said its coal-fired Pleasants Power Station in West Virginia will stay open until June 2022, after earlier announcing the plant would close in January of next year. FirstEnergy spokeswoman Jennifer Young said, “Keeping Pleasants in operation … allows the plant to fulfill current capacity obligations and provides additional time for evaluation […]

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