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New Executive Orders Set to Boost Nuclear Energy
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Credit: U.S. Dept. of Energy) Late last week, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders intended to increase domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years. The orders come as demand for electricity...
Repowering power plants with renewable and hybrid energy
From coal to natural gas, retrofitting aging facilities, and transitioning to hybrid power plants — all are occurring as new technologies make older facilities new again. Repowering involves replacing aging generating units at thermal plants with new, higher-capacity...
DOE realigns organizations to focus on clean energy innovation and infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced an organizational realignment to ensure that it has the structure needed to effectively implement the clean energy investments in the current infrastructure law and the Energy Act of 2020. The new organizational structure...
Challenges for the future of ‘clean hydrogen’
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) recently released a report showing that many opportunities exist for clean hydrogen's growth, but government leadership would be critical in achieving decarbonization goals. That includes...
Why Texas is the nation’s clean energy leader
Leading the nation in new renewable energy capacity, Texas leads the competition and is expected to continue as the leader. The state had 7,352 megawatts of new wind, solar and energy storage projects come online during 2021, according to a recent report by the...
$5 billion earmarked for EV infrastructure
Under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, $5 billion has been earmarked to support electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, according to the new joint departments, U.S. Departments of Energy and Transportation. The goal is to build out a national...
Trends to look for in 2022 for renewable energy
Supply chains, labor markets, transmission investments, EV growth, and federal policies are among the projected trends in renewable energy for 2022. Continued momentum in the clean energy industry is forecasted over the course of 2022, including four possible trends...
DOE report outlines strategies to accelerate offshore wind deployment and operation
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the release of a report that outlines regional and national strategies to accelerate U.S. offshore wind deployment and operation. The report summarizes the current status of offshore wind in the United States, describes...
Idaho field investigations completed for first small modular reactor
Field investigations were completed in late January in Idaho Falls, Idaho, toward the operation of the first-of-a-kind, small modular reactor (SMR). CFPP LLC is the entity Utah state energy services interlocal agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)...
TransAlta plans battery energy storage facility
TransAlta has asked for approval to build a 180 MW/360 MWh battery energy storage system on land that is part of the Ghost Hydro-electric facility near Cochrane, Alberta. The utility said it plans a two-phase approach to construction with Phase 1 constructed,...