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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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Current Generation Capacity, Future Investment Plans, and Photovoltaic Projects of the Cuban Energy Industry

February 14, 2022 admin Cuba, Energy, full coverage, International, news, photovoltaic, power, Power Demand, pv, Solar, thermal power plant

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:13:59 +0000

The state-owned Unión Eléctrica (UNE) is responsible for supplying electricity to the Cuban population and the national economy. This is a complex process in which more than 50,000 workers intervene, highlighted Jorge Armando Cepero Hernández, UNE’s general director during a recent press conference. The executive explained that electrical energy is produced with a generation fleet […]

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The POWER Interview: Benefits of a Smarter Grid

January 31, 2020 admin Business, Coal, connected plant conference, delta electronics americas, distributed energy, Energy Storage, Environmental, Gas, grid integration, iiot, iiot power, Instrumentation & Controls, maintenance, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:11:29 +0000

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The smart grid is transforming the way utilities communicate with their customers. Smart grid technology, including control systems and automation that help new technologies work together, supports a power grid that can respond digitally to quickly changing electricity demand. The smart grid enables electricity producers to enhance reliability, availability, and efficiency. It can provide cost […]

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Mixed Reactions to FERC’s Recent MOPR Order from Power Generators

December 28, 2019 admin america's power, appa, awea, Business, climate change, Coal, courts, Environmental, epsa, Exelon, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, mopr, nei, news, nrdc, Nuclear, pjm, Power Demand, Renewables, seia, Sierra Club, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:27:40 +0000

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On Dec. 19, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed PJM Interconnection to dramatically expand its Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) to nearly all state-subsidized capacity resources. It’s the latest of a series of dramatic revisions to the grid operator’s rule, which essentially functions to provide a minimum offer screening process to bar new market […]

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NERC: Long-Term Reliability Uncertain Amid Rapid Changes to Bulk Power System

December 19, 2019 admin Business, Coal, ders, distributed energy, Distribution, Energy Storage, ercot, Fuel, Gas, International, long-term reliability assessment. california, Markets, MISO, nerc, news, Nuclear, Ontario, Power Demand, reliability, reliability risks, Renewables, Solar, T&D, Technology, texas, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:29:46 +0000

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Significant and rapid changes that are reshaping North America’s power sector will likely leave Texas and Ontario, Canada, with supply shortfalls over the next decade, and energy deficiencies could also occur during off-peak conditions in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) area and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) region, the North American Electric Reliability […]

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China Starts Up First Nuclear Cogeneration Project—at AP1000 Plant

December 3, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, chp, cogeneration, combined heat and power, desalination, district heat, Environmental, fast reactors, Fuel, fuel cells, haiyang, Heat, high-temperature reactors, hydrogen, iaea, International, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, Research and Development, shandong, small reactors, smrs, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:53:22 +0000

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China has started up its first commercial nuclear cogeneration system, using two newly operational AP1000 reactors at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant to heat 700,000 square meters of housing. Shandong Nuclear Power Co. (SDNPC), a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corp. (SPIC), and owner of the Haiyang plant, on Nov. 15 said the first phase […]

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China Ramping Renewables, and Building More Coal Plants

November 28, 2019 admin Business, China, climate change, Coal, Environmental, global energy monitor, International, news, Paris Agreement, Paris climate summit, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, Wind, Xi Jinping

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:00:24 +0000

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Officials in China in 2017 said the country—the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases—would move away from coal-fired power generation. They promptly canceled more than 100 coal power plant construction projects. But coal remains king in China, which in the past two years has added 43 GW of coal-fired generation capacity, according to a report […]

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EV-Based Virtual Power Plants Shift Peak Load and Save Money

October 17, 2019 admin Business, distributed energy, distributed power, electric vehicle, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev, jackson associates, Markets, news, peak shift, Power Demand, research, Smart Grid, study, T&D, Technology, virtual power plant, vpp

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:45:10 +0000

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A recent study found that electric vehicle (EV) batteries used as a utility virtual power plant (VPP) could shift the entire residential peak load to nighttime hours with only 10% EV market saturation. The research was conducted by Jackson Associates, an Orlando, Florida-based firm that does energy forecasting, data development, and energy-related analysis. The study […]

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Financially Flailing Eskom Scrambles to Complete Defect-Ridden Coal Plants

October 17, 2019 admin blackouts, Business, Diesel, Economy, eskom, grid, International, kusile, load shedding, Markets, medupi, news, Power Demand, South Africa, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:53:46 +0000

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South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom was forced to slash 2,000 MW on a rotational basis nationwide on Oct. 16 and Oct. 17. The newest round of power cuts—the first in nearly seven months—highlight the state-owned utility’s scramble to avert financial disaster stemming in part from the fast-tracked construction of two 4.8-GW coal-fired power plants: Medupi […]

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What Can You Do with a Superconductor? A Lot! [PODCAST]

September 12, 2019 admin amsc, Business, daniel mcgahn, distributed energy, distributed power, Interview, news, Power Demand, power podcasts, superconductor, T&D, Technology, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:14:16 +0000

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What is a superconductor? One definition says, “a material that can conduct electricity or transport electrons from one atom to another with no resistance.” “At the base physics level, what a superconductor does is it moves a lot more power per unit volume or per unit weight, so you have a very high energy-dense material […]

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