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Solar
Floating Solar Project Supports Portugal’s Decarbonization Strategy
The largest floating solar farm in Europe, located on the reservoir for a hydroelectric dam in Portugal, is expected to begin producing power this month. The July startup of the Alqueva installation (Figure
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Nuclear
Rick Perry Believes in Nuclear Power—Is He onto Something or on Something?
Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas (2000–2015) and former U.S. Energy Secretary (2017–2019), who has more recently been in the news because of his support for legalizing psychedelic drugs, including
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O&M
Marnie Surfaceblow—Beware of Hissing Feedwater Heaters That Can Bite Your Bottom Line
Small problems can lead to large impacts on a long-term basis. Heat rate surveys, improved instrumentation, and utilizing real-time monitoring and diagnostics can help recover plant efficiency and save money
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O&M
Essential Prep and Closeout of Demolition Projects—What Power Plant Owners Need to Know
Industrial demolition projects of any scale are complex undertakings that require much more than just knocking things down and cleaning them up. Quite the opposite, in fact. Demolition, including of a retired
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Legal & Regulatory
Understanding—and Planning—for Regulatory Challenges to Offshore Wind
Offshore wind projects have been bolstered by federal and state initiatives that support the technology to achieve emissions-reduction goals. However, development and grid integration of these projects
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Workforce
Leveraging Digital Confined Space Technologies to Mitigate the Growing Labor Shortage
It’s becoming harder and harder for managers to find the skilled labor needed to operate and maintain power plants. That’s why utilizing technology to enhance safety and efficiency is so important. Digital
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Legal & Regulatory
Carbon Management Tax Policies Are Required to Achieve Net-Zero by 2050
President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law late last year, cementing his administration’s support for carbon management technologies and their essential role
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News
POWER Digest [July 2022]
Large-Volume Ammonia Co-Firing Demonstration at JERA Coal Plant to Begin a Year Earlier. Japanese firms JERA—a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and Chubu Electric—and IHI Corp. on May
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Nuclear
Nuclear Power on the Upswing, Numerous Projects Take Shape Around the World
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says momentum is building for nuclear power in many countries amid soaring fuel prices and growing energy security concerns. “In today’s context of the global energy crisis, skyrocketing fossil fuel prices, energy security challenges and ambitious climate commitments, I believe nuclear power has a unique opportunity to stage a comeback,” […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions
The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact the federal government’s authority to enforce other regulations. The court in a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, on June 30 said the EPA does […]