When combined cycle plants are run at low loads, problems often arise with overspray from attemperators using traditional mechanical atomization. To address this issue, power plants can upgrade to ...

Oklo Aurora powerhouse. Image: Gensler. Advanced nuclear company Oklo now has non-binding letters of intent for about 1,350 MW of microreactor capacity, a 93% increase from its 700 MW project pipeline ...

Duke Energy has proposed building new nuclear reactors at its Belews Creek coal and natural-gas fired station in North Carolina and a second site still to be determined. It’s part of a newly-filed ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has started operation of a 400 kW test module of its Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC), a hydrogen production technology, at Takasago Hydrogen Park, located within ...

Source: Medium. Creative Commons license. Oracle is designing a gigawatt-scale data center that will be powered by a trio of small modular reactors (SMRs), company Chairman and Chief Technology ...

Sodium-ion battery storage startup Peak Energy has announced its first shipment of its system that will be used in a shared pilot with nine utility and independent power producers (IPP) this summer.

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

“I don’t know if we’ve ever had more people on a panel before,” joked FERC Commissioner David Rosner to a chorus of laughs as he looked at the row of individuals in front of him. The lighthearted ...

Fire protection systems are sometimes viewed as a “black hole” by power generation engineering, operations and maintenance personnel. The main reason is that major fires are a rare event and the ...

Long-term equipment maintenance and service programs are known by many names: long-term maintenance programs, contractual service agreements, and perhaps most commonly, long-term service agreements, ...

SRP’s Roosevelt Dam, situated along the Salt River in Arizona, is one of three critical hydropower sites modernized with the Ovation™ Automation Platform to help ensure operational continuity and ...

Could sodium-sulfur technology transform energy storage? Duke Energy would like to know, which is why it’s launching a pilot project to test the tech as a possible alternative to lithium-ion battery ...