Babcock & Wilcox Secures Major Coal Power Plant Retrofit Contract in Southeast Asia

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:15:32 +0000

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) reported that its B&W Thermal business segment has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $13 million to retrofit boiler cleaning equipment for a power plant in […]

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Officials Approve Duke Energy’s Plan to Replace Coal with Gas-Fired Units

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:39:18 +0000

Regulators in North Carolina have approved Duke Energy’s plan to replace some of the utility’s coal-fired units with natural gas-fired generation. The North Carolina Utilities Commission in December issued orders […]

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Kentucky Utility Plans New Gas-Fired Units, Coal-to-Gas Conversion, and Solar Farms

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:01:40 +0000

A Kentucky electric cooperative plans to build new natural gas-fired units, and convert some of its coal-fired units to burn natural gas, as part of an expansion of its power […]

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2025’s Energy Crossroads: 6 Trends Redefining the Global Power Sector

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:15:00 +0000

Compared to recent years, which have been characterized by chronic energy shortages and price volatility, the world appears to be trundling toward a new energy market context, defined by an unprecedented

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POWER Digest [January 2025]

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:10:00 +0000

First Hualong One at Zhangzhou No. 1 Mega-Nuclear Plant Powers Up in China. China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC), on Nov. 28, successfully connected Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant No. 1, a 1.1-GW Hualong One

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USDA Funds Renewable Energy Project In Rural Texas

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:09:40 +0000

47 counties in southern Texas will soon be getting their electricity from renewable energy plus storage thanks to USDA funding.

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Texas Coal Plant Will Convert to Solar Plus Storage with Help of Fed Funding

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:51:31 +0000

San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI), a not-for-profit generation and transmission rural electric cooperative located in Atascosa County, Texas, was awarded more than $1.4 billion through the U.S. Department of […]

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Industry Experts Say Storage, Renewables, Transmission Key Parts of 2025 Energy Outlook

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:11:39 +0000

The outlook for the power generation sector in 2025 promises a continuation of the energy transition, though there’s plenty of debate about the direction of the industry. Advocates for renewable […]

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Bitcoin Is Going to Be the Nail in Our Climate Coffin

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:50:13 +0000

I realize that this article is not going to be popular with everyone. Bitcoin is a kind of tech financial fantasy, whereby many tech fans have come to the conclusion that we can live in some kind of financial utopia divorced from inflation and economic woes if we follow this … [continued]

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India Adds 4 GW of New Coal-Fired Capacity for Second Straight Year

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:06:46 +0000

India added 4 GW of coal-fired power generation capacity this year, according to the country’s Central Electricity Authority, about the same amount of new coal-based generation it added in 2023. […]

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