Generation: Page 340
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Sending Smart Grid Love to Five Utilities
A Valentine's Day offering to utilities, which often get more grief than love.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2012 -
NRC Approves Vogtle, First Nuclear Plant License in 30 Years
In a 4-1 vote, the commission agreed to give Southern Nuclear Operating Co. two more generators.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineTop 5 Stories from Utility Dive
Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources.
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State Regulator Likes Vogtle Approval
The chairman of the Georgia PSC hailed the NRC's decision to license two new reactors.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2012 -
Busch Ranch Adds to Black Hills Wind Portfolio
Black & Veatch will provide detailed design for the Busch Ranch Wind Project
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2012 -
EPA Pressed For Compliance Timeline Guarantees
Electricity regulators from across the U.S. insisted this week that the Environmental Protection Agency is underestimating the time they'll need to meet EPA's newest air rules.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2012 -
Calico Energy and Aclara Announce Alliance
They say they will offer an integrated set of advanced load control, analytics and demand-response solutions.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 8, 2012 -
Coal on Last Legs at Massachusetts Power Station
A legal settlement means coal will not be back after Dominion Energy shuts down its Salem Harbor facility.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
Canadian Trash-to-Biofuel Firm Enerkem Files for $125 Million IPO
The company says it has a "thermochemical technology" way to turn trash to gas.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Renewable Power in California Includes Variable and Non-variable Sources
Generation from other renewable sources is easier to keep constant than weather-driven "fuel."
By Sean Griffey • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Stress Test Rips Hole In Electric, Gas Disaster Planning
A "stress test scenario" showed that using more natural gas to fuel generators raises the risk of system interruptions.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Siemens Wins Order for Combined Cycle Power Plant in Saudi Arabia
Siemens will supply key components for the IPP Qurayyah combined cycle power plant in Saudi Arabia.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Solar Trade War: It Just Doesn’t Matter
Greentech Media's Eric Wesoff concludes that fighting China on solar-panel manufacturing is pointless.
By Sean Griffey • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Wind Energy: Over 21% of New Power Capacity in 2011
Wind capacity in Europe grew enough in 2011 to equal 6.3% of the E.U.'s usage.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Movie Takes an Honest Look at Complicated Subject: Wind Power
The documentary "Windfall" doesn't shy from examining wind power's problems along with its benefits.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Bringing Ultracapacitors to the China Wind Industry
An Chinese entrepreneur dives into the market for a better way to power blade pitch.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Most States Have Renewable Portfolio Standards
The standards drive increases in generation capacity powered by renewable resources.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
NH utility fighting forced divestiture
Public Service says that it usually delivers power it generates at below-market prices and customers can choose their source anyway.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Real-Life Grid Security Bungles (and 5 Steps To Banish Them)
Security veteran Ernie Hayden has scary stories about lax security found during utility site visits.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 1, 2012 -
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Federal Leasing Slowdown Costing Jobs, Money
A collapse in oil and gas leasing on federally owned land in six western states is costing the U.S. economy jobs and federal royalties as well as limiting access to domestic energy resources, a recent oil-industry-backed study says.
By Sean Griffey • Feb. 1, 2012 -
Global Natural Gas Production Doubled Between 1980 and 2010
Global dry natural gas production increased 110 percent between 1980 and 2010, from 53 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to 112 Tcf.
By Sean Griffey • Jan. 31, 2012 -
DOE Projections Detail the Potential of Water Energy
New assessments of U.S. wave energy and tidal current energy illustrates the vast potential of the resources.
Jan. 30, 2012 -
DOE provides detailed offshore wind resource maps
Wind Powering America (a DOE initiative) publishes a series maps showing the potential to generate electricity from offshore wind resources in the United States.
Jan. 30, 2012 -
Can The East River Power New York City?
A new tidal energy project located in New York City's East River has the potential to create electricity that would be one of the first commercial installations of "hydrokinetic" projects in the US.
Jan. 30, 2012 -
VT school wins solar array from GMP
Green Mountain Power is working with a local VT school to install a 2.5 kW solar array.
Jan. 30, 2012
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