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  • DGR Is Preferred Nuclear Waste Solution for Canada, Scary for U.S.

    A Canadian joint review panel issued an environmental assessment report on May 6 for a deep geologic repository (DGR) for long-term management of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (L&ILW), concluding that the project is “not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.” Ontario Power Generation (OPG) proposed the DGR, intending to locate the facility at […]

  • Murkowski Introduces Array of Energy Bills

    In the opening move of what is certain to be a long and contentious process, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, introduced a suite of bills covering a broad range of energy issues, from infrastructure to regulatory reform to civil enforcement. Along with several others introduced by […]

  • Connected Services: A Real-Time Information Framework to Transform Aftermarket Services

    In today’s global and competitive marketplace, service providers differentiate their value to their customers by streamlining their cost of service, improving their recommendations and reducing time-to-solution. Growing their businesses requires that service providers maintain and update intellectual property, optimize staff and adopt appropriate cost structures to maximize market penetration.

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  • [VIDEO] Service Providers and Asset Owners: Transformation Through Connected Services

    Discover how Service Providers were able to transform their business using a commercial and technical framework that enabled them to get real-time data from their customer’s asset, reduce the amount of service calls and create partnerships built on data and trust using Connected Services.

  • Sec. Moniz Covers Full Range of Energy Department Work in Daily Show Appearance

    In his May 6 appearance on Comedy Central’s Daily Show, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz addressed both the military and civilian energy issues that the Department of Energy is responsible for. His discussion with host Jon Stewart ranged from the recent negotiations with Iran over that nation’s capability to enrich fissile material to domestic energy […]

  • Legal Challenges to Clean Power Plan Begin to Take Shape

    Attorneys general from three states—Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia—stepped forward on May 5 to present their objections to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed Clean Power Plan. During testimony before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey presented three specific problems he sees […]

  • California Adopts Ambitious 40% by 2030 GHG Reduction Target

    California will seek to reduce its greenhouse gases (GHG) by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, a new executive action by Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. orders.  Executive order B-30-15 issued on April 29 comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year. California is one of 20 U.S. states (plus the District of […]

  • Sen. King Introduces Bill to Promote Distributed Energy Interconnection Neutrality

    A new bill unveiled on May 6 by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) champions a general right to neutrality of the interconnection of distributed energy resources (DER) and seeks to establish a set of national parameters for how DERs are governed. The day 30 on clomid no period Free Market Energy Act of 2015 would amend […]

  • MIT Report: Uniform Nationwide RPS Program Needed

    An interdisciplinary study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative concludes, among other things, that “state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requirements should be replaced by a uniform nationwide program.” The report—released on May 5—focuses on the future of solar energy, suggesting that a massive expansion in solar capacity to “multi-terawatt scale” is […]