Energy resilience
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FuelThe Science Behind Propane: How It’s Made and Why It’s Still Relevant
Most people are familiar with propane. Large silver-colored tanks are often used to store propane intended to heat rural homes and propane is a common fuel used in backyard cooking grills. But behind these
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PowerDOE Orders Fossil Units Online After Puerto Rico Blackouts, Citing Dispatchable Capacity Need
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has invoked emergency authority to compel Puerto Rico’s public utility to dispatch mothballed oil-fired and fossil-fueled power units, citing an imminent threat to grid reliability following two major blackouts in less than a month. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, acting on behalf of the DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, […]
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- Grid Deployment Office
- Puerto Rico
- transmission infrastructure.
- grid reliability
- power plant operations
- energy policy
- fossil generation
- PREPA
- oil-fired power plants
- Federal Power Act
- emergency orders
- Section 202(c)
- dispatchable capacity
- FEMA
- luma energy
- Energy resilience
- pr-erf
- Vegetation Management
- DOE
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NuclearDOD Advances X-Energy Mobile Nuclear Microreactor as Second Project Pele Design
The Department of Defense (DOD) has moved to develop a second transportable microreactor under Project Pele, granting X-energy a contract option to advance the design of its mobile advanced nuclear microreactor prototype. The one-year contract option will continue to provide funding for X-energy’s nuclear technology development, allowing the firm to develop its design to meet […]