Exelon employs virtual tour technology in LaSalle Station refueling outage
Exelon Generation said recently that it will use virtual tour technology to reduce work hours inside the plant and limit radiological exposure during a refueling and maintenance outage at its Lasalle Generating Station Unit 1, which powered down on Monday. Exelon’s innovation group developed a ... Read More »Department of Energy announces $44 million in grants for carbon capture technologies
The Department of Energy (DoE) announced $44 million in federal funding for seven projects on Friday to support research and development that aims to reduce the cost and risk of advanced carbon capture technologies. The seven projects undertake engineering-scale testing of solvent- or membrane-b... Read More »Pennsylvania PUC seeks comments on impacts of federal corporate income tax changes
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently announced that it is seeking comments from utilities and other interested parties on how reductions in utilities’ federal taxable income due to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) may impact ratepayers. President Trump signed TCJA i... Read More »Consumers Energy aims to wipe out coal use, reach 80 percent carbon emissions reduction by 2040
Consumers Energy of Michigan has laid out an ambitious new energy plan, aiming to not only to move to greater amounts of renewable sources and energy storage by 2040 but to reduce carbon emissions by 80 and eliminate coal use entirely. The company pointed to their efforts in the past five years ... Read More »Lisa Gordon-Hagerty