Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:17:13 +0000
Reliability measures implemented after Winter Storm Uri and Elliott were largely effective at averting distress on the power and natural gas systems during two severe arctic storms that swept across […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:21:32 +0000
Cheese Merchants uses close collaboration with Charles Equipment to power its mission to deliver fresh, premium cheese products to vendors across the U.S. Volvo Penta’s D16 engine serves as a […]
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Credit to Author: Emily Newton| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:46:48 +0000
As decision-makers look for practical and worthwhile ways to improve substation monitoring, they often turn to heat-vision applications, such as infrared thermography. Such methods allow people to use specialized equipment […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:30:51 +0000
Grid operators across the U.S. report they are largely prepared for the total solar eclipse that will pass over a large swath of North America on April 8, though they […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:03:24 +0000
Scientists who maintain the world’s temperature records, which date back to 1880, calculate a global temperature anomaly each year to determine how much temperatures have changed compared to temperatures from […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:21:56 +0000
(Updated March 7 with responses from EPA): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will drop requirements covering existing natural gas-fired power plants in its final Section 111 rule regulating power […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:49:09 +0000
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) is warning reliability challenges have grown urgent as the nation’s power system grapples with a “hyper-complex risk environment.” The grid operator that serves 15 […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:37:42 +0000
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has urged conservation as it grapples with record-high power demand amid extremely cold temperatures and near-zero wind chill over its seven-state region in the Southeast. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:57:54 +0000
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a conservation appeal as it braces for continued freezing temperatures, “very high” demand, and “unseasonably low wind” early in the morning […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:17:22 +0000
PJM has urged Talen Energy to delay its deactivation of two of four units at the 840-MW coal, oil, and gas–fired Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station in Maryland until transmission […]
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