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A further delay is projected for Vogtle Units 3&4. This was recently disclosed at Southern Company’s yearly corporate earnings meeting. Unit 3 could now begin commercial operation in May or June, delayed from when it was projected to be the end of April. Unit 4 also will be delayed, now projected sometime between November 2023 […]
Read MoreThe Hanford Site, in Washington State, currently stores radioactive waste in underground storage tanks. The waste was generated, in part, by the prior reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel during the Manhattan Project and Cold War eras, for defense-related nuclear research, development and weapons-production activities. In accordance with plans for cleanup and remediation of the waste, […]
Read MoreFor years, we have heard promises about delivery of a hydrogen engine and recently carmakers Toyota and Yamaha announced that they have joined forces and developed a hydrogen-fueled 5.0-liter V8 engine. Could this be the breakthrough we have all been waiting for? The engine is not entirely new, it is based on a current model used by Lexus […]
Read MoreNuScale can trace its beginnings back to 2000, based on research funded by the US Department of Energy and conducted by Oregon State University, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and other colleges. However, the research grant ended in 2003. A group of scientists at Oregon State University continued work on the design and built a […]
Read MoreThe Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which became law on August 16, 2022, is the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history. It directs new federal spending toward reducing carbon emissions, lowering healthcare costs, funding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and improving taxpayer compliance over the next ten years. The estimated cost associated with […]
Read MoreThe US electrical grid is truly an engineering marvel consisting of more than 600,000 miles of transmission power lines connecting more than 9,200 generating units that have a generating capacity of more than a million MW’s. The 40-year-old equipment is overworked and running out of lifespan. It is one of the most vulnerable infrastructures we […]
Read More“Keeping the lights on” often requires keeping critters out of our substations and grid networks. That’s because animals are behind thousands of outages every year. Did you know that squirrels are the animal most often associated with power outages? Why? Because they use electrical power lines for travel and a place to rest. I’m sure […]
Read MoreNestled in Madison County North Carolina is the little town of Hot Springs, North Carolina. Duke Energy recently tested a microgrid they built there. The property, which stretches more than 15 acres, was leased from the adjoining manufacturing company, Peerless Blowers. Since Hot Springs is a town of just over 500, it had limited rerouting […]
Read MoreDuke Energy now has more than 10,000 MW of solar and wind energy. You might think it’s in the Carolinas, where Duke is home-based out of Charlotte, NC, but it’s not. Duke just declared Idaho’s largest solar plant commercially operable. The 120 MW Jackpot Solar Plant will provide energy to Idaho Power Company through a […]
Read MoreSurely, by now you have heard about Oklo Incorporated, founded in 2014, the company that has the Aurora 1.5 MW micro-reactor design. They may have a solution for disposal of the used nuclear fuel assemblies in storage across 30 of our states (~80,000 metric tons). They have submitted an LPP (Licensing Project Plan) to the […]
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