According to the 2021 State of Reliability report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the continent’s bulk power system is still performing well, despite a series of high profile weather events, attacks, evolving generation resource mixes, and the lingering pandemic.
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As Mike Lloret navigates his way through a network of man-made cooling canals near Florida Power & Light Co.’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, he’s singular in his purpose.
A wildlife biologist for the station’s environmental research center, Lloret uses his headlamp not only t... Read More »
Siemens Limited and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited have deployed smart metering technology for over 200,000 smart meters in North Delhi, India.
The EnergyIP Meter Data Management System installed and commissioned by Siemens enables timely and accurate collection of electricity meter data. ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $24 million in funding for nine research projects to develop new methods of capturing and storing carbon from the air.
This process, known as direct air capture (DAC), is an expanding field in decarbonization and a key facet of the plan to achievin... Read More »
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), onshore wind generators face much more favorable construction costs today than they did in 2013, with prices having fallen by more than $500 per kW between then and 2019.
In part, this resulted in major increases in capacity, with 104... Read More »
House Energy and Commerce Committee members demanded answers from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan this week in response to whistleblower allegations the agency has been pressuring and manipulating results in its chemical review program.
The accusations span years... Read More »
The Biden administration’s high-profile infrastructure package will reset the strategy to expand the nation’s electric transmission capacity back to more than 15 years ago when the federal government played a more definitive role in the approval of new power lines.
Biden’s plan gives the Fe... Read More »
Through its BizSavers Program, Ameren Missouri has made cost-saving energy efficiency upgrades to several St. Louis area school districts.
The upgrades, which include brighter classrooms and more efficient heating and cooling systems, will result in significant cost savings for the schools. Sinc... Read More »
A group of 12 energy industry trade groups. Including the American Petroleum Institute (API) filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) indefinite pause on oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands and waters.
The suit – filed in U.S. District Court for the... Read More »
Through the newly launched Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) initiative, led by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking to lock down a domestic supply of rare earth elements and other critical minerals.
These materials ... Read More »