Hotly Contested Dispute Over Co-Located Loads is Primed for FERC Action

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:50:38 +0000

Federal regulation of customer loads located next to existing power generating facilities, referred to as “co-located loads,” have become a significant area of interest for the electric industry. Large industrial […]

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Japan, Korea Groups Will Build 2.4-GW Gas-Fired Power Plant in Qatar

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:07:56 +0000

Four major Japanese and Korean energy companies have jointly won the rights to build and operate a natural gas-fired power plant and a seawater desalination facility near Doha in Qatar. […]

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GE Vernova Will Supply Essential Grid Equipment for Australian Project

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:39:32 +0000

GE Vernova Inc. said it has secured a contract from Powerlink, Queensland’s state-owned transmission utility, to supply essential equipment for an upcoming Capital Work program. Under the agreement, GE Vernova will […]

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Trump’s Focus on Energy Will Have Variety of Impacts

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:29:01 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has made the U.S. energy industry a focus of its plans for his first days in office, with analysts and energy experts expecting a rollback […]

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Kenya Moves Forward With Plans for Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:50:54 +0000

Officials with Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) said the country is on track to start construction on its first nuclear power plant by 2027. The group at a […]

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Koeberg remains South Africa’s only nuclear power station. Its two pressurized water reactors produce a total capacity of 1,860MW, representing about 5% of electricity generated by state-owned utility Eskom. Construction of the Koeberg nuclear plant began in 1976, with Unit 1 synchronized to the grid on April 4, 1984, and Unit 2 on July 25, 1985. The plant is at Duynefontein, 27 kilometers north of Cape Town. Courtesy: Eskom

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Powering the Future: How AI’s Energy Demands Could Push Power Grid to Its Limits

Credit to Author: Joe Morgan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:45:16 +0000

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption skyrockets—and especially generative AI (genAI)—the underlying infrastructure powering these technologies faces unprecedented demands. Data centers, the nerve centers of AI operations, rely heavily on electricity, […]

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Is a Modular Data Center the Answer to Tech Industry’s Land and Energy Crisis?

Credit to Author: Joe Reele| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:57:10 +0000

The digital age is fundamentally dependent on data centers, which serve as the backbone of our technological infrastructure. Without them, the digital world as we know it would not exist. […]

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Leading U.S. Coal Producer Developing Solar, Energy Storage at Former Mines

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:38:47 +0000

A leading U.S. coal producer is partnering with a major developer of renewable energy projects to put solar energy and battery storage installations on reclaimed mine lands in Illinois and […]

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Large Solar-Plus-Storage Project Comes Online in California

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:25:25 +0000

Renewable Energy developer, owner and operator Arevon Energy on Nov. 21 announced the start of operations at its Vikings Solar-plus-Storage Project in Imperial County, California, near Holtville. The $529 million […]

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Communication Is Key to Successful Power Projects

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:39:52 +0000

Power plant construction and retrofit projects come in all shapes and sizes, but they all generally have at least one thing in common: complexity. There are usually a lot of […]

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