Researchers at MIT in Massachusetts, USA, have developed what they claim is a means of storing electricity inside modified concrete.
The Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo pilot plant at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, USA has generated electricity for the first time using supercritical CO2 power cycles.
Capital Power Generation has cancelled a C$2.4 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at its Genesee Generating Station in Alberta, Canada, stating that it is: “Technically viable but not economically feasible.”
Sources close to the Biden Administration have said that it is likely green hydrogen will be dropped from the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.
According to a report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US hydropower electricity generation is expected to rise by 6 per cent from the low of 2023 to 250 TWh.
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) of Canada has announced plans to refurbish its hydropower stations in Niagara, including the Sir Adam Beck Complex at Niagara Falls.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has started procurement for a 1.5 GW gas-fired power plant in east Tennessee, valued at $2.2 billion.
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has passed a decision to allow distributed renewable energy resources like residential solar and battery energy storage to interconnect to the grid without triggering grid impacts that require infrastructure upgrades.
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Britain is exploring the possibility of exchanging electricity with the USA via a proposed transatlantic power cable.
The largest US power grid, PJM Interconnections, could lose up to 58 GW of generating capacity by the end of the decade, according to a report by PJM’s Independent Market Monitor.