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Shortage of workers continues to affect job growth in Minnesota Star Tribune
The state added 1100 jobs in August, with unemployment rate falling to 3.3% in August, officials said.
The post Vistra Will Close Another Illinois Coal Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.
A Vistra Energy subsidiary on Sept. 16 said it will close the nearly 60-year-old E.D. Edwards coal-fired plant in Bartonville, Illinois, by year-end 2022 under a settlement between the company and environmental groups the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Respiratory Health Association. The groups made a joint announcement Monday of the agreement.
The environmental groups had sued in 2013 in an attempt to force the plant to adhere to emissions regulations. Vistra, in its second-quarter 2019 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, said a bench trial in the case had been scheduled for the end of September. “We dispute the allegations and will defend the case vigorously,” the company said in the SEC filing earlier this year, prior to the settlement.
Vistra’s Illinois power-generation unit—Illinois Power Resources Generating (IPRG), an affiliate of Vistra-owned Luminant—in a statement Monday said: “The proposed settlement resolves a long-running lawsuit while providing three years of certainty for the more than 70 employees working at the Edwards plant and, importantly, a transition period for the community to plan for the plant closure.…
The post What Can You Do with a Superconductor? A Lot! [PODCAST] appeared first on POWER Magazine.
What is a superconductor? One definition says, “a material that can conduct electricity or transport electrons from one atom to another with no resistance.”
“At the base physics level, what a superconductor does is it moves a lot more power per unit volume or per unit weight, so you have a very high energy-dense material that can move lots of power,” Daniel McGahn, CEO of American Superconductor (AMSC), explained as a guest on The POWER Podcast. “So, from a very simple standpoint, we can move transmission-level power at distribution voltage simply with the energy density.”
AMSC is a global energy solutions provider serving both the power grid and wind industries. “Everything we do revolves around resiliency—either of the grid, infrastructure, or of Navy ships,” McGahn said.
“We do a lot of grid interconnection of wind to the grid. We do voltage support within the grid.…
How To Get Rejected From A Job You Don’t Want Forbes
There’s a significant risk in receiving an offer for the wrong job: You may end up taking it. Here’s five tips to stop that from happening.
The post IHS: Natural Gas Prices Will Fall Below $ 2/MMBtu in 2020 appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Average natural gas prices at Henry Hub in 2020 could fall to below $ 2/MMBtu —a level “not seen in decades”—owing to a persistent oversupply, a new report from information and analytics firm IHS Markit suggests.
Prices could fall despite strong demand for natural gas, both domestically, including for power generation, as well as for exports. Demand for gas has increased 14 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) annually on average over the past two years, and the U.S. is expected to export an additional 3 Bcf/d of liquified natural gas (LNG) in 2020. IHS forecasts that nearly all growth in U.S. natural gas demand over the next few years will come from LNG exports to other countries.
Production, however, has grown by more than 14 Bcf/d since January 2018, and IHS Markit expects production will average more than 90 Bcf/d in 2019 and 2020.…
Metrics, Trust and Job Performance GovExec.com
High trust organizations are more productive and among the best places to work.