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Constellation Planning Significant Nuclear-Powered Hydrogen Facility at LaSalle
Constellation’s LaSalle County Generating Station in Marseilles, Illinois, comprises two nuclear reactors that can produce up to 2,320 MW. The station's 2,058-acre man-made cooling lake is a popular fishery managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Courtesy: Constellation

Constellation Energy will use a portion of newly announced federal funding for the Midwest Hydrogen Hub (MachH2) to build “the world’s largest nuclear-powered clean hydrogen facility” at its 2.3-GW LaSalle Clean Energy…


India Begins Commercial Operation of First Domestically Designed 700-MWe PHWR Nuclear Reactor

India has begun commercial operation of its first domestically designed 700-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat, state-owned Nuclear Power Corp. of India…


A Complex Landscape for the Future of Combined Heat and Power

Few power-generating resources present the combination of workhouse abilities that combined heat and power (CHP) does. But, powered predominantly by fossil fuels, will CHP find its unique footing within the…


THE BIG PICTURE: U.S. Combined Heat and Power and Microgrids

As of December 2022, the Department of Energy (DOE) CHP Installation Database recorded 4,674 combined heat and power (CHP) installations in the U.S., with a combined capacity of 80.4 GW.…


DOE Grants First-Round Civil Nuclear Credit Award—$1.1B—to Diablo Canyon 

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first round of funding from its $6 billion Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program is poised to go to Diablo Canyon Power Plant, California’s only operational…