Governor Says Nuclear Plant Fire Produced Hudson Oil Slick Part of a New York nuclear power plant remained offline Sunday after a transformer fire created another problem: thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River, officials said. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said emergency crews were out on the water near Buchanan trying … Continue reading Governor Says Nuclear Plant Fire Produced Hudson Oil Slick
Obama Administration threatens veto on nuclear funding bill A $35.4 billion energy and water spending bill approved earlier this month by the United States House of Representatives would give $936 million to nuclear energy programs in fiscal year 2016 — which begins on Oct. 1. he nuclear portion of the bill would provide $175 million … Continue reading #Obama Administration threatens veto on nuclear funding bill
Why Energy in 2025 Will Be Almost Unrecognizable In 2005, who would have thought that by 2015 the U.S. would be nearly independent of oil outside of North America, an electric vehicle would have won Motor Trend’s Car of the Year, and solar energy would be one of the fastest growing forms of new energy … Continue reading Why Energy in 2025 Will Be Almost Unrecognizable
Batteries Are Carving Out Space on the Grid Last fall, Southern California Edison (SCE) had some big decisions to make. The giant utility, which serves 14 million people across the southern half of the state, needed to procure just over 2 GW of power from a welter of options to meet its projected needs. Among … Continue reading #Batteries Are Carving Out Space on the #Grid
Scientists Find Breakthrough Technique To Harvest Solar Energy But They Still Have A Problem One major obstacle to harnessing the true potentials of the sun’s energy is that there is no efficient means of harvesting and storing it. A breakthrough made by University of Copenhagen student Anders Bo Skov, however, could pave way for scientists … Continue reading Scientists Find Breakthrough Technique To Harvest Solar Energy But They Still Have A Problem
American Eagle Energy Becomes Fourth U.S. Bankruptcy Of The Oil Bust American Eagle Energy became the fourth U.S. energy producer to file for bankruptcy protection in the aftermath of the big drop in crude oil prices. The Colorado-based company that buys and develops oil wells in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota and Montana … Continue reading #American_Eagle_Energy Becomes Fourth U.S. Bankruptcy Of The #Oil Bust
The World’s First Solar Road Is Producing More Energy Than Expected In its first six months of existence, the world’s first solar road is performing even better than developers thought. The road, which opened in the Netherlands in November of last year, has produced more than 3,000 kilowatt-hours of energy — enough to power a … Continue reading The World’s First Solar Road Is Producing More Energy Than Expected
Homegrown encryption threatens millions of smart grid devices Millions of thermostats and other smart devices could be under threat thanks to poor encryption, new research has revealed. The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) is one of the most widely used smart grid networkings standards in the world, but in what could be a nasty blow … Continue reading Homegrown encryption threatens millions of smart grid devices
Morgan Stanley to Sell Oil Arm to Castleton Morgan Stanley struck a deal to sell its oil-trading and storage business to Castleton Commodities International LLC, bringing the bank closer to unloading a unit that has attracted heightened regulatory scrutiny. The terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, but people familiar with the matter said the price … Continue reading #Morgan_Stanley to Sell #Oil Arm to #Castleton
How IoT will change your life …………A better balance of power Take the smart grid, for example. This is the application of the IoT to the modernization of our ageing electric infrastructure. In many countries, the grid was built in the 20th century and has not been modernized to tackle the challenges of the 21st … Continue reading How IoT will change your life
