Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:04:15 +0000
Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about data centers and the enormous amount of electrical power they are expected to demand as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms scale up and become more
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:06 +0000
Nuclear power plants are still being dismantled, and the business of decommissioning remains strong, but the need for more baseload power and emissions-free generation has some companies ready to restart idled
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:35:12 +0000
Two weeks ago, the news was filled with reports that Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, which was shut down in 2019, will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more. Its sole customer will be Microsoft, which needs a lot … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:34:57 +0000
Last month, Constellation Energy announced a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide electricity to Microsoft data centers in the mid-Atlantic region from the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Unit 1 had returned to operation in 1985 after the 1979 partial meltdown that affected the adjacent … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:18:25 +0000
The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:06:16 +0000
Microsoft has announced a deal to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. It’s the latest move by a technology company to use nuclear power to provide […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 18:19:09 +0000
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Power generation from natural gas is expected to rise in Pennsylvania over the next few years, according to the state Public Utility Commission’s (PUC’s) annual report on generation and transmission and distribution capacity released in late August. The PUC’s “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania 2018-2023” report made public last week projects gas-fired power generation will […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 22:14:58 +0000
The remaining nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island Generating Station (TMI) in Pennsylvania will shut down by the end of September. Exelon made that official May 8, setting the closing date for Unit 1 at the financially struggling plant that it first announced it would shutter two years ago. Exelon in 2017 said the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:28:57 +0000
Time is winding down for lawmakers interested in enacting legislation to save the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant. That message was amplified on April 5 when Exelon Corp. filed the federally required Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The PSDAR details plans for TMI Unit 1 after its final […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:26:11 +0000
Siemens, Three Mile Island, and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) made notable headlines over recent days. Here is this week’s POWER notebook. Siemens Bags First Order for 41-MW Aeroderivative Gas Unit Siemens on March 25 said it received its first order for its newest aeroderivative gas turbine offering—the SGT-A45. The buyer, Bayat Power, a subsidiary […]
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