• January 29, 2024
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE: HOW MANY ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS ARE THERE IN THE U.S.?

There are currently 60,840 Electric Vehicle charging stations with 162,429 ports in the United States and the number is always growing. California has 15,598 of those stations with 43,505 ports. New York, Florida, and Texas follow California with approximately 3000-4000 stations each. For perspective, if you find yourself driving in Alaska or South Dakota, you’ll have to […]

• January 23, 2024
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TVA MOVING FORWARD ON ADDITIONAL GENERATION BY 2028

Three combined-cycle natural gas turbine plants have achieved commercial operation at TVA’s (Tennessee Valley Authority) Paradise Combined Cyle Plant near Drakesboro, Kentucky. Each plant is equipped with a GE 7FA.05 gas turbine/generator and a Vogt heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The HRSGs are equipped with natural-gas supplemental duct firing and the steam generated from the […]

• January 19, 2024
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BESS: BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

The use of renewable energy to generate electricity in this country is growing fast. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 22% of the electricity generated last year came from renewable sources. With that said, the dependence on natural and weather elements…wind and sunshine…can create challenges to obtaining the electricity needed WHEN it is needed. Batteries are one […]

• January 16, 2024
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DID YOU KNOW?

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is leading the way in New York for green hydrogen. In conjunction with GE Vernova, EPRI, Sargent & Lundy, Fresh Meadow Power, and Airgas, an Air Liquide company, a retrofit of their natural gas facility at the Brentwood Power Station on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York has […]

• January 13, 2024
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SOUTH CAROLINA: REPLACEMENT PROJECT FOR 130-YEAR-OLD DAM MOVES FORWARD

GTTSi is proud to be a part of this historical and important project. As a member of the Lake Conestee Dam Restoration Project Independent Design Review Board, GTTSi consultant Earl Hamil brings 50 years of engineering, procurement, and construction experience in the energy sector to the project. https://www.wyff4.com/article/replacement-project-130-year-old-dam-toxic-waste/46321451

• January 8, 2024
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PERMIT ISSUED FOR KAIROS POWER’S HERMES TEST REACTOR Recently, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a permit to allow Kairos Power to construct their non-power test reactor at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This test reactor will be a 35 MW (thermal) non-power version of their fluoride salt-cooled high temperature […]

• January 4, 2024
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NUCLEAR EXPLAINED: URANIUM AND ITS ROLE IN THE NUCLEAR CYCLE

There are 92 naturally occurring elements but only one, uranium, has become the element of choice as a fuel for commercial nuclear operations. Uranium has an atomic number of 92 and corresponds to the chemical symbol U in the periodic table. It is a member of a unique class of elements known as “actinides,” which were […]