Nuclear France’s Sun Power Record Leaves Utilities in the Shade Sunshine brought more than spring flowers to France this week. Panels across the country pushed solar output to new highs of more than 4,000 megawatts, grid data show. That surge in a nation more dependent than any other on nuclear power illustrates the fundamental change … Continue reading Nuclear France’s Sun Power Record Leaves #Utilities in the Shade
PJM, Utility Officials Investigating Cause of DC-Area Outage PJM and utility officials said yesterday they are still investigating what caused the failure of a 230-kV transmission line that briefly cut power to the White House and much of the D.C. area Tuesday afternoon. The incident caused a drop in voltage that led the Calvert Cliffs … Continue reading PJM, Utility Officials Investigating Cause of DC-Area Outage
Southwest Power Pool: $2.9 Billion Annual Price Tag to Comply With EPA ‘Dirty Air’ Rules Grid operator Southwest Power Pool (SPP) said Wednesday that it would cost up to $2.9 billion a year to develop a regional plan to comply with President Obama’s proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) that the federal Environmental Protection Agency is … Continue reading Southwest Power Pool: $2.9 Billion Annual Price Tag to Comply With #EPA ‘Dirty Air’ Rules
A New Kind Of Nuclear Reactor? Leslie Dewan is 30, and she’s been building things her whole life. As an undergrad at MIT, she constructed two ancient balsawood rafts and sailed them on the Charles River. Go back further, to the sixth grade, and she wired a generator to a little water wheel. It made … Continue reading A New Kind Of Nuclear Reactor?
I-TEAM: FLAW FOUND IN HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT REACTOR HEAD NEW HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — The ABC11 I-Team has learned of a new problem at the Duke Energy Shearon Harris power plant in New Hill. The plant was off-line for refueling when a so-called “flaw” was discovered in the reactor head. The reactor head is … Continue reading I-TEAM: FLAW FOUND IN HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT REACTOR HEAD
Uncertainty is the new constant for demand response markets deral regulators last week rejected PJM Interconnection’s proposed stop-gap measure to allow demand response resources to participate in an upcoming auction, saying the grid operator’s proposal was premature. But while the decision was significant for PJM, appears to have changed very little on the DR landscape. … Continue reading Uncertainty is the new constant for demand response markets
Analysis: SPP sees adequate summer reserve margin Houston, 8 April (Argus) — The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) expects to have a healthy reserve margin of 32pc this summer, more than double the requirement. Summer demand in the eight-state, coal-reliant area is forecast to peak at 50,529MW while capacity will total 63,605MW, SPP regional entity officials … Continue reading Analysis: SPP sees adequate summer reserve margin
Clean Energy Revolution Is Ahead of Schedule The most important piece of news on the energy front isn’t the plunge in oil prices, but the progress that is being made in battery technology. A new study in Nature Climate Change, by Bjorn Nykvist and Mans Nilsson of the Stockholm Environment Institute, shows that electric vehicle … Continue reading Clean Energy Revolution Is Ahead of Schedule
Feds approve Wisconsin Energy’s $9.1 billion purchase of Integrys The largest acquisition ever proposed by Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Energy Corp. has received federal approval after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday cleared the energy company’s $9.1 billion purchase of Integrys Energy Group Inc. of Chicago. The deal still requires the approvals of public service commissions of … Continue reading Feds approve #Wisconsin_Energy’s $9.1 billion purchase of #Integrys
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