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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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NERC: Long-Term Reliability Uncertain Amid Rapid Changes to Bulk Power System

December 19, 2019 admin Business, Coal, ders, distributed energy, Distribution, Energy Storage, ercot, Fuel, Gas, International, long-term reliability assessment. california, Markets, MISO, nerc, news, Nuclear, Ontario, Power Demand, reliability, reliability risks, Renewables, Solar, T&D, Technology, texas, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:29:46 +0000

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Significant and rapid changes that are reshaping North America’s power sector will likely leave Texas and Ontario, Canada, with supply shortfalls over the next decade, and energy deficiencies could also occur during off-peak conditions in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) area and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) region, the North American Electric Reliability […]

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China Starts Up First Nuclear Cogeneration Project—at AP1000 Plant

December 3, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, chp, cogeneration, combined heat and power, desalination, district heat, Environmental, fast reactors, Fuel, fuel cells, haiyang, Heat, high-temperature reactors, hydrogen, iaea, International, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, Research and Development, shandong, small reactors, smrs, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:53:22 +0000

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China has started up its first commercial nuclear cogeneration system, using two newly operational AP1000 reactors at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant to heat 700,000 square meters of housing. Shandong Nuclear Power Co. (SDNPC), a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corp. (SPIC), and owner of the Haiyang plant, on Nov. 15 said the first phase […]

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China Ramping Renewables, and Building More Coal Plants

November 28, 2019 admin Business, China, climate change, Coal, Environmental, global energy monitor, International, news, Paris Agreement, Paris climate summit, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, Wind, Xi Jinping

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:00:24 +0000

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Officials in China in 2017 said the country—the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases—would move away from coal-fired power generation. They promptly canceled more than 100 coal power plant construction projects. But coal remains king in China, which in the past two years has added 43 GW of coal-fired generation capacity, according to a report […]

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EV-Based Virtual Power Plants Shift Peak Load and Save Money

October 17, 2019 admin Business, distributed energy, distributed power, electric vehicle, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev, jackson associates, Markets, news, peak shift, Power Demand, research, Smart Grid, study, T&D, Technology, virtual power plant, vpp

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:45:10 +0000

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A recent study found that electric vehicle (EV) batteries used as a utility virtual power plant (VPP) could shift the entire residential peak load to nighttime hours with only 10% EV market saturation. The research was conducted by Jackson Associates, an Orlando, Florida-based firm that does energy forecasting, data development, and energy-related analysis. The study […]

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Financially Flailing Eskom Scrambles to Complete Defect-Ridden Coal Plants

October 17, 2019 admin blackouts, Business, Diesel, Economy, eskom, grid, International, kusile, load shedding, Markets, medupi, news, Power Demand, South Africa, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:53:46 +0000

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South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom was forced to slash 2,000 MW on a rotational basis nationwide on Oct. 16 and Oct. 17. The newest round of power cuts—the first in nearly seven months—highlight the state-owned utility’s scramble to avert financial disaster stemming in part from the fast-tracked construction of two 4.8-GW coal-fired power plants: Medupi […]

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What Can You Do with a Superconductor? A Lot! [PODCAST]

September 12, 2019 admin amsc, Business, daniel mcgahn, distributed energy, distributed power, Interview, news, Power Demand, power podcasts, superconductor, T&D, Technology, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:14:16 +0000

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What is a superconductor? One definition says, “a material that can conduct electricity or transport electrons from one atom to another with no resistance.” “At the base physics level, what a superconductor does is it moves a lot more power per unit volume or per unit weight, so you have a very high energy-dense material […]

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POWER Digest [July 2019]

July 1, 2019 admin abb, Alberta, Business, Carbon Capture, carbon taxes, carbon-negative plant, China, Coal, drax, Energy Storage, EPR, ethiopia, Gas, geothermal, International, minesto, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, Renewables, South Africa, T&D, Technology, tidal energy, uhvdc

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Taishan-2 EPR Achieves Criticality. A second EPR unit in China’s Guangdong province attained a sustained chain reaction on May 28, marking another major milestone for Framatome, EDF, and China General

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Chile Presents a Coal Exit Plan

June 30, 2019 admin acciona, Argentina, Business, chile, climate change, Coal, coal retirements, engie, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, International, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, solar thermal, T&D, Technology, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Chile, a country that relied on coal for about two-fifths of its power generation in 2016, in June announced it would mothball eight coal plants, totaling 23 GW, of its existing 28-plant coal fleet over the

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As Renewables Surge Ahead of Coal, Lawmakers Introduce National Renewable Standard

June 27, 2019 admin awea, bill, biomass, Business, Coal, coal decline, distributed energy, EIA, Fuel, geothermal, Hydro, Legislative, national renewable electricity standard, news, Nuclear, Power Demand, Renewables, Senate, Solar, Technology, tidal power, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:56:23 +0000

A bill introduced by Senate Democrats on June 26 establishes a national electricity standard that would require large retail suppliers to source at least 1.5% of their power from renewables by 2020 and gradually grow that share through 2035. The measure comes a day after the Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed monthly generation from renewable […]

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