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Three More Nuclear Plant Owners Will Demonstrate Hydrogen Production

September 11, 2019 admin aps, Business, Davis-Besse, DOE, Energy Storage, fes, hydrogen, inl, Markets, Minnesota, news, Nuclear, palo verde, Technology, xcel

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:55:08 +0000

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FirstEnergy Solutions (FES), Xcel Energy, and Arizona Public Service (APS) will demonstrate hydrogen production at three nuclear plants they own starting in 2020 and 2021. The projects, selected as part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Project funding pathway, aim to improve long-term competitiveness of the nuclear sector […]

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Developer Blasts Ohio Nuclear Deal, Pulls Plug on Gas Plant Project

August 21, 2019 admin bruce mansfield, Business, clean energy future llc, Coal, Davis-Besse, firstenergy solutions, Gas, Legislative, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Ohio, Perry, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:59:37 +0000

The president of a company developing two new natural gas-fired power plants in Ohio said he is ending a project for a third plant there after lawmakers passed legislation to help two struggling nuclear generation facilities in the state. Bill Siderewicz, who leads Massachusetts-based Clean Energy Future LLC, on August 20 in a statement said […]

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FES Will Close Mansfield Coal Plant Early

August 12, 2019 admin beaver valley power station, bruce mansfield, Business, Coal, Davis-Besse, firstenergy corp., firstenergy solutions, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, Nuclear, Perry, pleasants power station

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:17:51 +0000

FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) said it will close the Bruce Mansfield power plant in Pennsylvania in November, two years ahead of the previously scheduled closure for the facility’s remaining coal-fired unit. FES in a statement August 9 cited a “lack of economic viability in current market conditions” for the decision to shutter the 830-MW Unit 3, […]

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POWER Notebook: Ohio Gas Plant Project in Jeopardy if Nuclear Bill Passes

July 15, 2019 admin algeria, Business, China, Coal, Davis-Besse, fes, FirstEnergy, Gas, Hydro, hydropower, International, kafue gorge lower, Legislative, merchant, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Ohio, perry nuclear power plant, Renewables, scatec solar, sinohydro, Solar, zambia

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:39:26 +0000

New York City-based LS Power on July 15 said it would end a project to expand its natural gas-fired Troy power plant in Ohio if state lawmakers pass legislation to subsidize the state’s two nuclear power plants. LS Power in a news release Monday said, “Handouts to nuclear plants jeopardize the economics of the other […]

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Pressure Mounts as Legislators Try to Save Nuclear Plants

April 11, 2019 admin beaver valley, Business, Davis-Besse, Exelon, Legislative, news, Nuclear, Nuclear plant, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Perry, subsidies, three mile island, tmi

Credit 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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FirstEnergy Throws in the Towel on Coal Plants

August 30, 2018 admin beaver valley nuclear plant, bruce mansfield power plant, Business, Coal, Davis-Besse, decommissioning, energy ventures analysis, eva, FirstEnergy, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, perry nuclear power plant, pleasants power station, power plant, retirement, w.h. sammis

FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) notified PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization (RTO), of its plans to deactivate four fossil-fuel generating plants in 2021 and 2022. In a press release issued on August 29, the company said it “is closing the plants due to a market environment that fails to adequately compensate generators for the resiliency […]

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