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PG&E Investing $18 Billion Toward Wildfire Mitigation

March 28, 2023 admin 0 Comments Business, news, PG&E, power lines, psps, public safety power shutoffs, socal edison, T&D, transmission and distribution, wildfire mitigation plan, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:05:23 +0000

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) said it plans to invest $18 billion toward its wildfire prevention program through 2025 after sustaining major financial losses from fire-related claims over the past few years. PG&E filed for bankruptcy in 2019, and has paid billions of dollars in settlement awards tied to criminal and civil liabilities […]

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The POWER Interview: FREYR Leads Wave of New Battery Manufacturing

March 28, 2023 admin 0 Comments 24m semisolid, Arizona, caterpillar, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, freyr, Georgia, glencore, International, Interview, lg energy solution, news, nidec, Norway, power, Research and Development, Samsung SDI, siemens, South korea, Technology, tom jensen

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:13:16 +0000

Growth in the energy storage market, including the transportation sector, has spurred a ramp-up in global battery manufacturing and investment in new technologies. Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. has brought a flurry of announcements from foreign companies eager to build manufacturing plants in America. FREYR, a Norway-based company, late last […]

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The Tremendous Potential—and Challenge—of Offshore Wind Energy

March 24, 2023 admin 0 Comments DOE, fpso, International, lankhorst euronete, mooring, Norway, O&M, offshore wind, operations and maintenance, Portugal, Renewables, Spain, Technology, The Netherlands

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:13:43 +0000

Wind turbines must move farther offshore to gain greater efficiency. But the challenges associated with doing so are significant. At the Dutch village of Den Oever, just north of Amsterdam, the A7 motorway extends onto the Afsluitdijk, a 32-kilometer dike that separates IJsselmeer Lake and the North Sea. Near the midway point, approaching the village […]

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TVA, OPG, Synthos Team to Shape Standard Design for BWRX-300 Nuclear Reactors

March 23, 2023 admin 0 Comments bwrx-300, Canada, geh, Nuclear, opg, Poland, power, smr, synthos, TVA

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:42:49 +0000

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), and Synthos Green Energy (SGE) will collaborate to shape a standard design for GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) to speed up the technology’s regulatory acceptance and spur future deployments. The three companies, which have separately begun a regulatory process for potential BWRX-300 […]

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Last Energy Secures PPAs for 34 SMR Nuclear Power Plants in Poland and the UK

March 23, 2023 admin 0 Comments advanced nuclear, Business, finance, Fuel, full coverage, International, last energy, Markets, micro modular nuclear, microgrid, news, Nuclear, Poland, Power Demand, pwr-20, smr, Technology, uk

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:26:49 +0000

Last Energy, a U.S.-based micro modular nuclear technology firm and project developer, has secured power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 34 PWR-20 small modular reactor (SMR) units with four industrial partners in the UK and Poland. The deals, which represent a combined $18.9 in power sales, mark “the largest pipeline of new nuclear power plants under […]

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Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, and FDR: Big Players in U.S. Hydropower History

March 23, 2023 admin 0 Comments Army Corps of Engineers, bonneville power administration, bureau of reclamation, Business, full coverage, grand coulee dam, History, Hydro, hydropower, news, power, power podcasts, the power podcast, TVA

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:30:59 +0000

When you study the history of hydropower, you expect to learn about people like British-American engineer James Francis, who developed the first modern hydro turbine in 1849. A testament to his genius is that the Francis turbine continues to be the most widely used water turbine in the world today. Or you assume American inventor […]

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Japan’s JERA Buying Offshore Wind Developer in $1.7 Billion Deal

March 22, 2023 admin 0 Comments Belgium, GERMANY, International, jera, news, offshore wind, parkwind, power, virya energy

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:00:49 +0000

Japan’s largest power generation group is moving into renewable energy in a big way, agreeing to a deal to buy Belgium’s biggest player in offshore wind. JERA, a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and Chubu Electric Power, on March 22 said it has a definitive agreement with Belgium’s Virya Energy to […]

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New Coal-Fired Unit Operating at Zimbabwe’s Largest Thermal Power Plant

March 22, 2023 admin 0 Comments Coal, hwange power station, Hydro, hydropower, International, kariba south, news, power, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:57:04 +0000

The first of two 300-MW units being built as part of the expansion of a coal-fired generating station in Zimbabwe has come online. The Zimbabwe Power Co. (ZPC) said the unit began sending electricity to the national grid late on March 20. ZPC in a statement said, “Power will be progressively fed into the grid […]

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Group Outlines Plan for Three Italian Offshore Wind Projects

March 22, 2023 admin 0 Comments copenhagen infrastructure partners, eni, floating offshore wind, greenit, International, news, offshore wind, power, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:41:58 +0000

An Italy-based renewable energy group said it will develop three floating offshore wind projects over the next several years that will provide about 2 GW of power generation capacity to the country. GreenIT, a joint venture between Plenitude and CDP Equity, part of CDP Group, on March 22 announced an agreement for design and construction […]

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Hot Functional Testing Begins on Unit 4 at Vogtle Nuclear Plant

March 21, 2023 admin 0 Comments Georgia Power, hot functional testing, Nuclear, reactor, Vogtle, westinghouse ap1000

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:06:43 +0000

Georgia Power announced that hot functional testing for Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant has begun, as the utility moves closer to bringing both reactors of the two-unit expansion at the facility online. Hot functional testing marks the last series of major tests for Unit 4 prior to the initial loading of fuel […]

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