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Abbie Bennett

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Energy and Environment Reporter at S&P Global

Senior energy/enviro reporter ⚑🌎 @SPGlobal | Teach @merrillcollege | Was @cbsradio, @newsobserver | @UNCHussman πŸ’Ž | 🐱lady | https://t.co/Or4mCfneFh

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  • Nov 5, 2024 | spglobal.com | Abbie Bennett |Zack Hale |Siri Hedreen |Noah Schwartz

    In the US elections on Nov. 5, Republican Senator Ted Cruz fought off his Democratic challenger in Texas, while the North Carolina and New Hampshire governors are projected to hand off their offices to their respective parties, according to preliminary results in three key down-ballot races for energy policy. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. As of 1 am ET (6 am GMT) on Nov.

  • Oct 16, 2024 | spglobal.com | Abbie Bennett

    The US Department of Energy announced $900 million in funding will be made available for next-generation nuclear technologies to meet growing demand for clean energy. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. DOE opened applications Oct. 16 for funding to support initial domestic deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactors.

  • Oct 9, 2024 | spglobal.com | Markham Watson |Binish Azhar |Abbie Bennett |Karen Rivera |J Robinson

    More than 76,000 customers in Florida were without power at 5 pm ET Oct. 9, according to PowerOutage.US, as the outer bands of Hurricane Milton lashed the southern peninsula with high winds, heavy rains and storm surges, weakening energy demand and prices. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Florida peakload was forecast to be about 34.9 GW on Oct.

  • Sep 10, 2024 | spglobal.com | Abbie Bennett

    US nuclear plant sites could host as much as 95 GW of additional capacityβ€”about double current nuclear capacityβ€”depending on the type of new reactor to help meeting growing electricity demand, according to an analysis from the US Department of Energy. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. The DOE report, released Sept.

  • Aug 8, 2024 | spglobal.com | Abbie Bennett

    Advanced nuclear developer NuScale Power Corp.'s net losses continued to mount in the second quarter of 2024 and revenues came in under $1 million. But executives maintained their confidence that small modular reactor technology can help to meet growing electricity demand, particularly from large-load customers such as datacenters.

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Abbie Bennett
Abbie Bennett @AbbieRBennett
25 Apr 25

Energy industry experts and finance executives are skeptical about new-build nuclear despite renewed interest in nuclear generation from utilities and large-load customers looking to build datacenters. πŸ”ŒπŸ’‘ https://t.co/KAQARnRxUG

Abbie Bennett
Abbie Bennett @AbbieRBennett
25 Apr 25

Market volatility and policy swings driven by the Trump administration could chill power project financing, planning and execution, experts and industry participants said at the recent S&P Global Power Markets Conference. πŸ”ŒπŸ’‘ https://t.co/GhbeBNM7xU

Abbie Bennett
Abbie Bennett @AbbieRBennett
25 Apr 25

US utilities operated the largest commercial nuclear generation fleet in the world in 2024, with 94 nuclear reactors and a total capacity of nearly 97 GW. https://t.co/FSiuqLj1gx https://t.co/9Yrf35SLY6