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Reuters • 03-21-23 • By Gavin Maguire   LITTLETON, Colorado, March 21 (Reuters) – Clean-burning hydrogen has been hyped as a potential solution to a swath of climate-related energy problems, from fuelling trucks and powering industry to generating electricity – all while emitting only puffs of harmless vapour. The fuel is getting backing from an […]

E&E News • 03-02-23 • By Jeremy Dillion   Senators from the Southeast have come together in an unusual show of bipartisan harmony as they try to convince the Energy Department to award the region a hydrogen hub project. In a letter led by Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) released Thursday to […]

E&E News • 03-13-23 • By David Iaconangelo The Nine Mile Point nuclear plant in New York began producing hydrogen last week, marking a first for the U.S. and casting light on a little-known method for producing carbon-free fuel. “Pink” hydrogen, like the kind made at Nine Mile Point, is created when nuclear power extracts […]

S&P Global • 10-26-22 • By Bill Freebairn The Tennessee Valley Authority will need to build 20 new nuclear units if it is to decarbonize its generating fleet by 2050, President and CEO Jeff Lyash said in an interview Oct. 25. The federal power producer in February approved a strategy for new nuclear plant deployment […]

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant in Avila Beach, Calif.Credit…Michael Mariant/Associated Press   California’s last nuclear power plant received a $1.1 billion federal grant on Monday as the state seeks to extend the plant’s operations — currently set to end in 2025 — to meet electricity demand at a time of intensifying climate events. The Department […]

Across the country, a big backlash to new renewables is mounting Ohio Capital Journal • 02-15-23 • By Robert Zullo BUCYRUS, Ohio — In four terms as a county elected official in northern Ohio, it was the most contentious issue Doug Weisenauer had ever seen. The state legislature had newly empowered county governments to drastically […]

Duke Energy forms coalition with Dominion Energy, Southern Co., others to seek federal Southeast Hydrogen Hub funding   Charlotte Business Journal • 11-01-22 • By John Downey Duke Energy Corp. and four other major Southeast power companies have joined a coalition with leadership from Ohio-based Battelle to pursue federal financial support for a six-state Southeast […]

Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants Associated Press • 04-19-22 • By Jennifer McDermott and Matthew Daly WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps […]

PacifiCorp joins Bill Gates’ TerraPower in bid to build nuclear plant in Wyoming S&P Global Market Intelligence • 06-02-21 • By Garrett Hering (Duke Energy note: TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy announced the launch of the Natrium™ reactor/energy system last fall. Along with PacifiCorp and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, other project team members include Duke […]

Published Fri, Jun 11 202111:16 AM EDTUpdated Wed, Jun 30 20214:34 PM EDT Catherine Clifford@IN/CATCLIFFORD/@CATCLIFFORD Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Lintao Zhang | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bill Gates: Stop shutting down nuclear reactors and build new nuclear power plants to fight climate change CNBC • […]