POWERnews June 7, 2018
Exelon CEO Clarifies Headline-Grabbing No-Grid-Emergency Comment
Chris Crane, CEO of Exelon Corp., seemed to take umbrage with the way comments he made on June 5 were reported by Utility Dive. The website published the headline “Exelon…
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Six Glaring Interventions in Competitive Markets—Beyond the Trump Plan
The Trump administration’s attempt to prop up uneconomic “fuel secure” generators in competitive markets is just the latest in a string of recent “extra-market” interventions that experts say imperil independent…
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NuScale Boosts SMR Capacity, Making it Cost Competitive with Other Technologies
Optimization through advanced testing and modeling tools will increase NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) capacity by 20%, which could make it “even more competitive with other electricity generation sources,” the…
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Three U.S. Nuclear Plants Get Poor Marks from NRC

Officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) plan to hold a public hearing May 31 on the safety record of the Arkansas Nuclear One power plant in Arkansas, whose…

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West’s Largest Coal Plant Could Get a Lifeline
The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) in Arizona is scheduled to close by year-end 2019, but intervention by the federal government could keep the West’s largest coal-fired power plant operating. At…
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Puerto Rico Power Restoration Effort a Focus of EEI Convention
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an industry association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies, made a point during its annual convention of recognizing the mutual assistance workers who labored…
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More Groups Weigh-in on Trump Move to Save Coal, Nuclear—Including Supporters
Few entities have expressed approval of the Trump administration’s plan that includes a directive for system operators to buy or arrange purchase of energy or capacity from designated “fuel secure”…
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[UPDATED] Trump Administration to Force Purchases of Coal, Nuclear Power
A draft memo circulated by the Trump administration before the National Security Council urges federal action to force grid operators to buy power from uneconomic coal and nuclear plants. Bloomberg…
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Swift (and Angry) Reaction to Trump Move to Save Coal, Nuclear Plants
Reactions from U.S. energy and legal and regulatory groups began pouring in minutes after the White House confirmed on June 1 that President Trump has directed the Department of Energy…
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Hurricane Season is Here; Is Your Grid Prepared?
When Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, no one could predict the level of devastation those 155-mph sustained winds would deliver. In its wake, Maria…
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Industry Press Releases
Duke Energy celebrates opening of new state-of-the-art natural gas plant at the W.S. Lee Station in South Carolina

India Approves New 5,000-MW Solar Farm

General Atomics Awarded ARPA-E Funding for Advanced Reactor Research

Seeq Announces New Version, and adds Managing Director for European Operations

Turboden Celebrates the 300th ORC Biomass plant

Cadenza Innovation to Implement Demonstration Project to Further New York State Grid Energy Storage Goals

ABB to strengthen power infrastructure in Iraq