Kennedy Maize

Knoxville

Covering energy and environment from Washington for over 50 years. Editor and publisher of The Quad Report. [email protected]

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Unbidden, DOE cancels long-planned coal plant shutdown

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeOffering an implausible rationale, the Trump administration has ordered a private-sector electric utility to delay plans to shut down a large coal-fired power plant in Michigan from the planned closure this Saturday (May 31) until at least August 21.
Unbidden, DOE cancels long-planned coal plant shutdown

1 week ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeOffering an implausible rationale, the Trump administration has ordered a private-sector electric utility to delay plans to shut down a large coal-fired power plant in Michigan from the planned closure this Saturday (May 31) until at least August 21.
Trump EOs push nuclear reprocessing, slam the NRC

1 week ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Trump administration is proposing to create a government-owned corporation to manage much of the civilian nuclear power fuel cycle, including previously banned atomic bomb fuel plutonium to be recovered from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel. This audacious proposal comes in another of Trump’s avalanche of executive orders. On Friday (May 23) he signed an order aimed at reviving the failed 1960s vision of a civilian plutonium-uranium nuclear fuel cycle.
Trump EOs push nuclear reprocessing, slam the NRC

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Trump administration is proposing to create a government-owned corporation to manage much of the civilian nuclear power fuel cycle, including previously banned atomic bomb fuel plutonium to be recovered from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel. This audacious proposal comes in another of Trump’s avalanche of executive orders. On Friday (May 23) he signed an order aimed at reviving the failed 1960s vision of a civilian plutonium-uranium nuclear fuel cycle.
Getting pumped: Hydro storage promises and problems

2 weeks ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe most mature technology for storing energy to generate electricity when power supply is limited is water: pumped storage. The concept is straight forward: use power when it is plentiful to pump water to an elevated reservoir, then run the water downhill through turbines to make power when needed. It’s simple, it works, it’s been around for many decades.
Wind wars: The Empire comes back

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe on-again, off-again, Trump-again administration has reversed course and told a large, halted offshore wind project to resume construction. The Interior Department has told Norway’s Equinor to get back to work on its multibillion-dollar, 800-MW Empire 1 wind project some 14 miles off the shore of Long Island just a month after the Trump administration put a stop on the project.
FERC nixes $3 billion Mid-Atlantic transmission line

2 weeks ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week (May 13) rejected a rate proposal by three major investor-owned utilities for a $3 billion, 417-mile high-voltage electric transmission line running through Virginia and West Virginia and into a small portion of Maryland. The transmission line would be in the footprint of the PJM regional transmission organization and was selected by PJM under its plan for strengthening transmission in the region.
FERC nixes $3 billion Mid-Atlantic transmission line

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week (May 13) rejected a rate proposal by three major investor-owned utilities for a $3 billion, 417-mile high-voltage electric transmission line running through Virginia and West Virginia and into a small portion of Maryland. The transmission line would be in the footprint of the PJM regional transmission organization and was selected by PJM under its plan for strengthening transmission in the region.
Hydrogen: Long on promise but short on delivery

3 weeks ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizePennsylvania-based Air Products, the world’s largest producer of hydrogen, is moving away from basing much of its business on the a “clean” version of the first element on the periodic chart. As the elementary element, a building block of life, hydrogen has long been a promising path to a clean, powerful, adaptable energy source. But, as Air Products and other major bettors on a hydrogen energy play are discovering, it may not pay.
Hydrogen: Long on promise but short on delivery

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizePennsylvania-based Air Products, the world’s largest producer of hydrogen, is moving away from basing much of its business on the a “clean” version of the first element on the periodic chart. As the elementary element, a building block of life, hydrogen has long been a promising path to a clean, powerful, adaptable energy source. But, as Air Products and other major bettors on a hydrogen energy play are discovering, it may not pay.