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Nation’s Largest Community Solar Program Set to Launch

March 4, 2020
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Florida Power & Light (FPL) on March 3 received approval from state regulators to launch the nation’s largest community solar program. FPL’s $ 1.8 billion SolarTogether project will more than double the amount of available community solar power nationwide.

The program, unanimously approved Tuesday by the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC), adds almost 1.5 GW of solar power generation capacity across the state. It includes 20 solar arrays, each with about 74.5 MW of generation capacity—just below the 75-MW threshold that would require more regulatory oversight of the projects. The new projects are all expected to come online over the next year.

“This program represents significant forward progress for the solar landscape of not only Florida, but the entire United States,” said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of FPL, on Tuesday. “For years, access to solar energy for many Floridians was not economical or easily accessible.…

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Technology Selected for DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Program

November 20, 2018
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Battelle Energy Alliance—the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)—selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) PRISM technology to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program.

The VTR program is expected to accelerate the development of fuels and materials for U.S. advanced reactors, utilizing fast neutron spectrum technology. Rather than producing electricity, the VTR will conduct irradiation testing for fuels, materials, and equipment to be used in rapidly evolving designs for advanced reactors brought forward by U.S. companies, as well as public and private research institutions.

In October, the INL awarded nearly $ 3.9 million in funding through the VTR program for 13 university-led projects to develop instrumentation and tools needed to monitor and conduct experiments in the fast spectrum reactor.

The university-led projects selected for funding were:

University of Pittsburgh Disruptive Nuclear Technology: Resonance Sensors and Inductive Signal Transmission through Hermetic Walls $ 450,000
University of Wisconsin – Madison Miniature Scale Liquid Metal Oxygen Purification and Measurement System $ 350,000
University of Utah Development of Experiment Vehicle for Analyzing the Chemistry of Irradiated Molten Salt $ 450,400
Texas A&M University Development of Innovative Measurement Techniques for Fission Product Transport Quantification $ 250,000
Oregon State University In Situ Mechanical and Corrosion Testing $ 440,000
University of New Mexico Preparatory Out-of-pile Lead Loop Experiments to Support Design of Irradiation Test Loop in VTR $ 450,000
North Carolina State University VIM for VTR: Holistic Approach to Design and Construction $ 319,000
Texas A&M University Rabbit System Design and Demonstration $ 400,000
Abilene Christian University Investigation of Instrumentation, Data Analytics, and Simulation Synergies for the Versatile Test Reactor $ 150,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advanced Data Acquisition and Simulation with Live Data Supporting VTR Experiments $ 150,000
University of Idaho Advanced Molten Salt Flow Sensor $ 100,000
Colorado School of Mines Big, Deep, and Smart Data to Support VTR Experiment Design and Validation $ 169,000
Georgia Tech IBD Power Monitor for the VTR Experimental Program $ 196,000

“The VTR is a vital and strategic project for the U.S.…

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Experts: If Clean Power Plan Perishes, GHG Regulation Almost Certain Under NAAQS Program

January 8, 2017
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If the Clean Power Plan is scrapped or weakened, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be forced to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by existing power plant with wider repercussions under its National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) program, experts have warned.

While President-Elect Donald Trump promised to “scrap” the Clean Power Plan during his presidential campaign, the power sector has grappled with regulatory uncertainty since the Supreme Court issued a stay of the rule that establishes the first federal GHG limits for existing fossil fuel–fired power plants in February 2016. The rule, finalized in 2015 under Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, has deeply divided the nation and U.S. power sector.

Eighteen states (plus the District of Columbia) supported the rule in the merits litigation: California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington. A number of power companies are also participating as intervenors, including Calpine, Pacific Gas & Electric, NextEra, and Southern California Edison Co.…

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