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Hitachi Energy Will Modernize HVDC System, Boost Delivery of Canadian Hydropower to U.S.

December 15, 2022 admin Canada, full coverage, hitachi energy, hvdc, hydro-quebec, New York, NEW YORK CITY, news, Power Demand, T&D, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000

Hitachi Energy will spearhead the modernization of a key high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system in Canada to support the transmission of 1,500 MW of renewable power between Quebec and New York state’s electrical networks. Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest power utility, on Dec. 15, picked the global technology firm to supply a “back-to-back” converter station at Châteauguay, […]

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Hitachi Energy Will Modernize HVDC System, Boost Delivery of Canadian Hydropower to U.S.

December 15, 2022 admin Canada, full coverage, hitachi energy, hvdc, hydro-quebec, New York, NEW YORK CITY, news, Power Demand, T&D, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000

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Increasing Energy Security: Optimizing Today’s Energy Operations and Investing in Renewables for the Future

December 14, 2022 admin Commentary, decision-making, elsevier, energy security, engineering, International, Management, news, power, renewable energy, research, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Bryan Davies| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:15:36 +0000

Countries’ timelines to becoming energy secure and reaching net-zero targets have shortened. Major contributing factors include COVID-19’s impact on supply chains and the war in Ukraine. Alongside this are external influences such as COP27, or the landmark U.S. Climate Bill, which will direct almost $370 billion toward rapidly scaling renewable energy production and reducing emissions. Already, intergovernmental […]

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DOE Confirms Fusion Energy Milestone at California Lab

December 13, 2022 admin California, DOE, fusion, lawrence livermore national laboratory, national ignition facility, news, Nuclear, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:08:55 +0000

The first nuclear fusion reaction to result in a net energy gain has been successfully completed by scientists at a laboratory in California, a milestone in the decades-long pursuit of a way to produce unlimited energy with no carbon emissions or nuclear waste. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm made the official announcement Dec. 13 during […]

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Four Forces Shaping U.S. Utilities in 2023

December 8, 2022 admin Business, Cybersecurity, e&y, energy security, Management, news, power, Technology, transition, trends, utilities

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:43:48 +0000

In 2023, U.S. utilities have a multipronged ambition to realize: how to provide customers with reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, and safe water. However, increased pressure around decarbonization and the adoption of cleaner energy sources, electrification, and related infrastructure needs, and customer-driven disruption will make this energy trilemma even more difficult to balance. Management at […]

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Small Modular Reactors Aren’t Difficult Nuclear Waste Generators

December 7, 2022 admin Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, natrium, news, Nuclear, nuclear waste, NuScale, power, Research and Development, Safety, Small Modular Reactor, smr, snf, Spent nuclear fuel, Technology, terrapower, x-energy, xe-100

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:26:42 +0000

Many experts believe small modular reactors (SMRs), which are generally classified as nuclear power reactors with an electrical output of 300 MW or less, offer great promise for supplying the world with carbon-free energy. Several SMRs designs are under development by companies around the world including NuScale Power, GE-Hitachi, Terrestrial Energy, TerraPower, Toshiba, X-energy, and […]

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GE Releases New Option to Cut Emissions on Its Mobile Gas Turbines

December 6, 2022 admin & co., Business, California, climate change, emergency power, emissions, Environmental, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, ge gas power, news, NOx, power, Power Demand, Technology, tm2500

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:00:27 +0000

GE Gas Power announced on Dec. 6 that it has deployed an “innovative technical solution” on four TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines at the California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR’s) sites in Yuba City and Roseville, California (Figure 1). The solution reportedly reduced nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions by more than 90%, surpassing […]

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Three Nuclear Giants Will Vie for Czech Republic’s Dukovany Expansion

December 2, 2022 admin AP1000, apr1400, bechtel, Business, climate change, Czech Republic, dukovany, EDF, EPR, full coverage, International, khnp, Markets, Nuclear, Technology, temelin, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:49:02 +0000

Competition for a new unit of up to 1.2 GW at the Czech Republic’s Dukovany nuclear power plant site has stepped up, with France’s EDF, South Korea’s Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and a Westinghouse-Bechtel team submitting initial bids, Czech utility ČEZ, said on Nov. 30. Elektrárna Dukovany II, a. s. (EDU II), a […]

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Hybrids Combine Technologies to Enhance Electricity Production

December 2, 2022 admin capstone, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, energy shares, Energy Storage, engineering, Fuel, geothermal, hybrid, hybrid power, Hydro, microgrid, news, power, psixe, Research and Development, Solar, Technology, vpp, Wind, yokogawa

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:16:00 +0000

Solar + wind, solar + storage, wind + storage—even fossil fuels combined with renewable energy—are supporting the growth of hybrid power plants that are breaking the norms of traditional power generation

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How Monitoring and Diagnostics Centers Benefit the Power Industry

December 1, 2022 admin design, engineering, ge, Instrumentation & Controls, Interview, m&d, monitoring and diagnostics, O&M, Plant Design, power, Research and Development, Safety, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:11:00 +0000

GE has been operating a monitoring and diagnostics center for the power generation sector for more than 25 years. From modest beginnings, the facility now monitors about 1,000 power plants around the world

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