Hourly load in Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory averaged a record 74.5 GW the week of Aug. 22, the Energy Information Administration said in a Sept. 3 report, shortly after ERCOT reached a new peak demand record of 91 GW on July 22. “Sustained high temperatures have contributed to persistently high electricity demand in...
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) said the agency has closed a loan of as much as $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to support the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa. The station is one of three U.S. nuclear power plants where work is being supported by the Office of Energy Dominance...
For years, China has been talking a big game about the Arctic. The country lies far from the Arctic Circle — more than 800 miles — but still, it has declared itself a “near-Arctic state.” It has teamed up with Russia on coast guard patrols in the Arctic Ocean and explored a flurry of resource and...
Casablanca is moving ahead with a major waste-to-energy project aimed at tackling two infrastructure pressures at once: rising municipal waste volumes and demand for dependable electricity generation. The planned facility, to be built northwest of the Mediouna landfill in the Casablanca-Settat region, is designed to process about 1.5 million tons of non-recyclable waste annually and...
The Environmental Protection Agency has opened another round of public comment on three key terms in a rule defining which bodies of water are subject to regulation, also known as the “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, rule, further lengthening the agency’s timeline for finalizing the rules. The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers announced...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Interior Department to assess whether gray wolves should lose their endangered-species protections as part of his administration’s efforts to address livestock depletion and bring down domestic beef prices. The president also ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to allow ranchers to kill these animals, if necessary, to protect their herds. ...
Construction of the final segment of the Southwest Intertie Project, a 576-mile transmission corridor connecting an area from Idaho to just south of Las Vegas, Nevada, is underway. Officials celebrated the latest milestone for the installation during a groundbreaking ceremony in Ely, Nevada, on September 3. Read more in POWER Magazine here.
Michael Skelly knows it’s hard to build a huge transmission line that connects different regions of the grid. He has spent a decade trying to get one up and running. But Skelly, now CEO of Grid United, thinks his current attempt to build a first-of-its-kind transmission line is on the right track. And he’s gotten...
New details of the Trump administration’s agreement to provide Saudi Arabia with a civilian nuclear program are spurring criticism that the landmark deal doesn’t do enough to head off the risk of nuclear proliferation. The text of the accord was shared with lawmakers last week along with a raft of related documents. It outlines a...
A set of 13 “high value” inter- and intraregional transmission projects in the Eastern Interconnection could produce up to $15.3 billion in net system value through 2050, according to a study released Tuesday. Also, the transmission projects would lower retail electricity rates, enhance system reliability and improve resilience to extreme weather events, according to Powering...
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