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Why Constellation Energy, a Nuclear-Heavy Giant, Is Primed for Power Futurity

January 31, 2023 admin Business, constellation energy, Exelon, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, History, news, Nuclear, Policy, SCIENCE, supply chains, Technology, utility spotlight

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Spun out of Exelon Corp. a year ago, Constellation Energy’s competitive generation and customer-facing energy businesses represent a new power company paradigm that conforms to decarbonization. But the company that today holds the largest nuclear fleet in the U.S. will still face a unique array of challenges.

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A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

November 2, 2022 admin ATF, bge, Business, calvert cliffs, constellation, Environmental, Exelon, Fuel, full coverage, History, Legislative, licensing, Management, news, NRC, Nuclear, Safety, Technology, top plant, workforce

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:18:00 +0000

Baltimore Gas & Electric set out to build the 1.8-GW Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in 1967 because fossil energy was becoming expensive and controversial. Over its nearly 50 years of operation

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Monster Clean Hydrogen Hub Rising In Northeast US

August 28, 2022 admin clean hydrogen, clean power, Connecticut, Energy, Exelon, green hydrogen, hydrogen, maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, pink hydrogen, regional clean hydrogen hubs, renewable energy, Rhode Island, us department of energy (doe), usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:00:26 +0000

Six northeast US states have combined forces to fight for a share of the Energy Department’s $8 billion funding pot for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs.

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Fleet Owners Just Want More EV Charging Stations, Not The Moon

July 20, 2022 admin #adt, Amazon, American Airlines, at&t, best buy, cbre, centrica, ceres, ceres corporate electric vehicle alliance, clean transport, clean trucks, clif bar, consumers energy, dhl, edison international, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, Exelon, fleet management, genentech, heritage, hertz, ikea, jll, lease plan, lime, Lyft, merchants fleet, nafa fleet management association, national grid, otis, policy & politics, schindler, siemens, states logistics, Uber, unifi, usa, verizon

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:30:39 +0000

Fleet owners that represent more than 2.5 million vehicles on the road and claim more than $1.1 trillion in annual revenue figure they should have some say in the matter of building out the national EV charging network here in the US, and they have a lot to say. A collective of 31 leading fleets […]

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The ‘Weakest Link’ in Supply Chain Security

February 22, 2022 admin assessment, Business, cyber, Cybersecurity, device, Exelon, fortress, full coverage, INDUSTRY, Information, Interview, news, perspective, protect, Security, security features, supply chains, Technology, the power interview, utility, utility company, vendor, vulnerabilities

Credit 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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Exelon’s Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant Licensed for 80 Years—Will It Make It?

March 17, 2020 admin Business, courts, Environmental, Exelon, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, license extension, Markets, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear power plant, nuclear subsidies, peach bottom

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:31:18 +0000

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted a 20-year license extension for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Units 2 and 3. The extension authorizes the two reactors—both of which began commercial operation in 1974—to continue operating through 2054. “We are pleased with the NRC’s decision to grant a subsequent license renewal for Peach Bottom Units […]

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The POWER Interview: Exelon Discusses Digitalization

February 10, 2020 admin Artificial Intelligence, Coal, connected plant, Cybersecurity, digitalization, digitization, Exelon, Gas, iiot, iiot power, Instrumentation & Controls, Interview, maintenance, news, Nuclear, O&M, predictive maintenance, Renewables, Research and Development, Safety, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:21:46 +0000

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Digitization in the power generation sector continues to expand. Its goal in simple terms—providing easy access to data for power plant operators and engineers, enabling the use of advanced analytics to improve equipment performance and efficiency—has resulted in reduced operating costs for utilities, and also has enhanced plant safety. POWER’s upcoming Connected Plant Conference, set […]

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Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant

January 16, 2020 admin accident tolerant fuel, ATF, Exelon, framatome, Fuel, ge, gnf, hitachi, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, nuclear power plant, O&M, Plant Design, Research and Development, Russia, Safety, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:50:56 +0000

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Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a GE-led joint venture with Hitachi Ltd. that supplies boiling water reactor fuel and fuel-related services around the world, said lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois. “We continue to work with our customers […]

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PJM Stakeholders at Odds on Timing for Next Capacity Auction

January 9, 2020 admin base residual auction, Business, calpine, capacity market, Coal, distributed energy, epsa, Exelon, Gas, Legislative, ls power, Markets, meeting, mopr, news, Nuclear, pjm, public power, Renewables, Solar, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:19:42 +0000

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PJM Interconnection will not run a base residual auction (BRA) until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approves recalculated Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) floor prices for new and existing resources as directed by the federal entity’s ground-shaking Dec. 19 capacity market order. But when that will occur is still highly uncertain. In a presentation […]

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Mixed Reactions to FERC’s Recent MOPR Order from Power Generators

December 28, 2019 admin america's power, appa, awea, Business, climate change, Coal, courts, Environmental, epsa, Exelon, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, mopr, nei, news, nrdc, Nuclear, pjm, Power Demand, Renewables, seia, Sierra Club, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:27:40 +0000

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On Dec. 19, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed PJM Interconnection to dramatically expand its Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) to nearly all state-subsidized capacity resources. It’s the latest of a series of dramatic revisions to the grid operator’s rule, which essentially functions to provide a minimum offer screening process to bar new market […]

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