With all the talk of incredible energy demand projections for the next few years, it’s easy to brush them off as hype. In fact, it’s hard to keep up. Every time we hear a new projection, it’s higher than the last. Just last week, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said we’re going to need...
Washington is finally putting real momentum behind permitting reform, and the House’s SPEED Act (H.R. 4776) reflects a welcome recognition that our current system is too slow and too unpredictable to support the kind of energy and economic growth the country is experiencing. The bill from House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine,...
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As the world doubles down on net-zero targets, carbon markets have become a cornerstone of our global climate response. But their credibility hinges on one critical question: Are we truly valuing all forms of low-carbon energy? Right now, the answer is an emphatic no. And one glaring omission proves it: nuclear power. Despite being the...
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NuScale’s 77-MW module supplanted an earlier 50-MW design the NRC approved in 2023. Some prospective customers had been in a holding pattern as the commission considered NuScale’s application for the uprated module, Hopkins said, adding, “It was accomplished. We’re there.” NuScale Chief Financial Officer Ramsey Hamady said the May approval puts NuScale in a class by...
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday granted multiple licensing and regulatory approvals necessary for the 800-MW Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan to restart operations later this year. Palisades is now authorized to receive new fuel and formally transition licensed reactor operators to on-shift status, Holtec International said in a statement. The company is leading the effort to...
Federal regulators on Friday rejected calls by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and its transmission owners that the grid operator’s independent market monitor be effectively barred from transmission planning oversight. MISO’s tariff “unambiguously” authorizes MISO’s market monitor to review and analyze actions that affect the competitiveness, economic efficiency and operation of the grid operator’s markets...
In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, unleashing a wave of optimism across the renewable energy sector. As someone who has spent over a decade in utility-scale development — working on more than a gigawatt of solar and hundreds of megawatts of battery energy storage projects — I saw firsthand how...
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