Mitsubishi Power Americas and El Paso Electric have announced that they have reached a joint development agreement (JDA) to develop projects that offer a combination of renewables, energy storage, and power generation using hydrogen.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has said that it expects a 22 per cent increase in coal-fired generation in 2021 over 2020.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $20 million funding for a demonstration project at Palo Verde nuclear power station in Arizona to produce hydrogen.
GE Renewable Energy has announced that it has received an order from Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, to supply Haliade-X wind turbines for Vineyard Wind 1, the first utility-scale offshore wind installation in the USA.
GE has announced that for TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines have been ordered, delivered, installed, and commissioned in 42 days by the State of California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR), Kiewit Power Constructors, and GE.
The USA has announced that it has joined efforts to end export credits for coal-fired power generation projects. The initiatives are sponsored by the OECD.
Illinois state legislators in the USA have approved a bill promising around $700 million to support the nuclear power sector in the state.
A report from the US Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy says the solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40 per cent of the nation’s electricity by 2035.
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) and Clean Power Alliance (CPA) have announced they have signed a 15-year PPA for the Desert Quartzite Solar-plus-Storage project in Riverside County, California, USA.
Hurricane Ida has resulted in all eight transmission lines into the New Orleans area to go down, creating a load imbalance that knocked all power generation in the region offline.