Lawmakers, Industry Look to Expand Nuclear Energy Options In a world of low oil prices and cheap natural gas, the prospects of developing new nuclear technology seem to remain ever in the future, beyond market and regulatory barriers. “To be practical, we all know that the gestation time of a new nuclear technology is very … Continue reading Lawmakers, Industry Look to Expand Nuclear Energy Options
DistribuTECH 2015: What’s the killer app for the smart grid? There isn’t one. DistribuTECH 2015 is officially over, and according to the people we’ve spoken to this week, the takeaway is a bit different this year. While specific technologies have dominated past conferences, this year it was less about the devices and more about how … Continue reading DistribuTECH 2015: What’s the killer app for the smart grid? There isn’t one.
Europe’s Energy Independence Drive Goes off the Rails A year ago, Russia’s lunge into Ukraine seemed to be focusing European minds on the dangers of depending on Moscow for their energy supplies, pushing countries across the continent to scramble onto the shale-gas bandwagon in a quest to copy U.S. success and move towards having the … Continue reading Europe’s Energy Independence Drive Goes off the Rails
Traffic energy recovery systems promises free electricity Drivers waste a lot of time in traffic, and also energy. Every time they come to a stop, the force exerted by their brakes generates tremendous amounts of heat energy that simply vanishes into thin air. Hybrids and electric cars try to recapture some of this in the … Continue reading Traffic energy recovery systems promises free electricity
In W.Va., New GOP Majority Defangs Renewable Energy Law That Never Had a Bite In a largely symbolic move, West Virginia legislators have repealed a law that required utilities to generate a quarter of their power from renewable or alternative sources by 2025. The bill repealing the state’s energy portfolio standard passed 95-4 in the … Continue reading In W.Va., New GOP Majority Defangs Renewable Energy Law That Never Had a Bite
How utilities are transforming their fuel mixes More than 80% of utility executives foresee distributed energy resources changing their company’s fuel mix in coming decades, according to Utility Dive’s new report, the State of the Electric Utility 2015. Nearly as many (79%) see their companies adding utility-scale solar. A very large majority see additions of … Continue reading How utilities are transforming their fuel mixes
Reflecting on the Hottest Energy Industry Trends in 2014 Early last year I outlined predictions on some of the bigger trends that I thought were going to shape the retail energy industry. It’s time to take stock on how I did. In 2014, predictions alluded to the following: 1) the pace of U.S. solar deployment … Continue reading Reflecting on the Hottest Energy Industry Trends in 2014
How will Tesla’s ‘gigafactory’ affect the grid? The “gigafactory” that electric automaker Tesla announced last week is superlative in just about every sense. It would be 10 times larger than any lithium-ion battery factory that exists in a facility more than twice the size of the Mall of America, and would round out a Tesla … Continue reading How will Tesla’s ‘gigafactory’ affect the grid?
GOP senator pushes for more nuclear power, Yucca waste site …The Yucca site, proposed in the 1980s but still never built, is one of his priorities. The permanent waste storage site has been proposed for Nevada, but it faces opposition in the state, the Obama administration and elsewhere. “There’s renewed hope under our Republican majority … Continue reading GOP senator pushes for more nuclear power, Yucca waste site
2015 Nuclear Energy Global Outlook The year 2014 was a year of resurgence in some countries and loss in others in the nuclear energy industry. Some nuclear power projects broke ground while others shut down. The U.S. released financing for advanced technologies, and regulators worldwide addressed waste storage issues. The global nuclear industry is now … Continue reading 2015 Nuclear Energy Global Outlook
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