In early August, a special transport departed from Voith Siemens Hydro’s Heidenheim workshop bearing the company’s 300-ton, 300-MVA hydro motor-generator back to Schluchseewerk AG’s Wehr pumped-storage station in Germany’s Black…
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Large and small hydropower, hydrokinetic, and ocean power projects and technologies
Thirty years after the U.S. government began assessing if a remote ridge in the Mojave Desert 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev., was suitable for the nation’s first permanent…
Artificial photosynthesis for solar power? Photosynthesis, the natural process used by green plants for millions of years to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into oxygen and carbohydrates is the…
Twice a day, 115 billion tons of saltwater churn in and out of the Bay of Fundy, a funnel-shaped pocket of the Atlantic Ocean wedged between the Canadian provinces of…
Dominion applies for new Virginia reactor In late November, Dominion became the third power company to formally propose building what would be the first new U.S. nuclear unit in more…
Constellation files partial COL Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group has dipped its big toe into the nuclear regulatory licensing waters, testing the temperature for a third unit at its 1,165-MW Calvert…
PG&E mounts tidal power project Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), the city and county of San Francisco, and Golden Gate Energy Co. have agreed to undertake a comprehensive study…
World's largest PV plant now in Portugal The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) electric generating plant—at 11 MW—has come on-line in sunny Portugal. The project, in the city of Serpa,…
SYSTEM RELIABILITY Cyber security and the grid Too often, we think the consequences of cyber attacks are limited to disabled file servers, frantic damage control exercises by security personnel, and…