Credit to Author: Massey Padgham| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:12:15 +0000
The Frontier Collective is a new group aiming to raise the profile of B.C.’s emerging “frontier” tech sectors: AR/VR, Web3, gaming and other metaverse technologies.
Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:37:20 +0000
Many experts believe hydrogen holds great promise as a clean energy resource that can help nations achieve carbon-free goals. Green hydrogen, which is made from water through electrolysis powered by renewable energy, could be used to decarbonize a wide range of hard-to-abate industries, including petrochemical, cement, and steel, which often require high temperatures and combustion […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:20:24 +0000
The energy transition will bring with it a new generation of cybersecurity challenges for the power sector. While information-sharing has been valuable, strategies to address issues related to vendor security, cyber talent, and lagging investment will also be critical, a former utility supply chain executive who led the development of an industry-wide cybersecurity risk exchange […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:06:35 +0000
Ethiopia began delivering power from a 375-MW turbine at its flagship 5.15-GW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Feb. 20, marking a significant milestone for the project that could become Africa’s largest hydropower producer. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the project in a celebration broadcast widely in the East African nation on Sunday. Officials […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:06:35 +0000
Duke Energy, the nation’s largest power producer, will dramatically slash coal generation’s share from the current 22% of total generation to 5% by 2030 and achieve a full phaseout of unabated coal by 2035. The company instead expects to deploy more than $130 billion over the next decade—$63 billion of which it will spend over […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Phil Beecher| Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:15:14 +0000
Smart grids have been with us for over a decade. But for many power industry stakeholders, they’re associated almost exclusively with smart meters. Remote meter reading is certainly a compelling use case, and one which justified many initial deployments, especially in the U.S. where end-customer sites are spread out over large distances. But there’s much […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:16:04 +0000
NuScale Power has signed a definitive commercial agreement with mining and processing firm KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. to deploy a VOYGR power plant of up to 924 MWe as early as 2029 to support KGHM’s copper and silver production in Poland. Under an “early works agreement” signed in a ceremony on Feb. 14 in the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:42:43 +0000
A GE Gas Power front-end engineering design (FEED) study will receive $5,771,670 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management following successful completion of the award negotiation phase. The funding is focused on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for power generation applications with a goal […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:32:35 +0000
GE has signed an exclusive agreement with EDF Group, an entity majority held by the French government, to sell the equipment segment and some services that make up Steam Power’s nuclear-serving steam turbine business—part of a portfolio that GE adopted during its 2015 merger with French equipment giant Alstom. The American technology conglomerate confirmed it signed […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: pdtechintegration| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:57:21 +0000
D-Wave plans to use the proceeds from the deal to further develop and commercialize its quantum computers.
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