Hurricane #Irene caused more power outages in the #ConEd service area than any other storm in history. @ConEdSara
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Hurricane #Irene caused more power outages in the #ConEd service area than any other storm in history.
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Though hydraulic fracturing has stirred debate, it has quickly become widespread and attracted attention for its potential to boost profit.
Based in the Southeastern United States, C&J Energy Services–which provides various services for the hydraulic fracturing process, including coiled tubing and pressure pumping services–reported an exceptional second quarter in its 2011 financial results. Profit was $33.2 million, up from $1.7 million in Q2 2010 and $29.1 million in Q1 2011. Keep reading →
It was a week that tested the nuclear industry’s strength, only months after a high-profile leakage cast a shadow over the entire sector.
Though Dominion’s North Anna nuclear plant in Northern Virginia shook in last week’s earthquake, and shut down automatically as a result; and although Southern Maryland Calvert Cliffs plant was knocked offline when Hurricane Irene blew a piece of aluminum siding into a transformer, nuclear plants along the East Coast largely remained operational and withstood the summer storms. Keep reading →
Imagine that significant amounts of extra power could be stored for later use in your home. Now imagine that you can store it in a battery in your very own electric vehicle.
This PJM video highlights the transmission grid operator’s newest MAGICC car initiative, the Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Car Consortium. It lays out a a vision for a system that stores energy and then pulls it from batteries when demand fluctuates and potentially spikes. Keep reading →
Following its controversial decision after the Fukushima crisis in Japan to shut down all of its nuclear power generation, Germany has been busy bolstering its renewables portfolio.
General contractor hybridsolar AG will add 60.2 MW of capacity to the 24.3 MW FinowTower solar plant, located at the former Eberswalde/Finowfurt military airport in the district of Schorfheide, northeast of Berlin, bringing the plant’s total capacity to 84.5 MW and making it the largest solar power plant in Europe. Keep reading →
Coal shortages in China getting worse. Will that help renewables? It appears so: http://reut.rs/qmNDVn 
By Shifra MincerCoal shortages in China getting worse. Will that help renewables? It appears so: http://reut.rs/qmNDVn @Stphn_Lacey
With renewables ever more popular, the hottest new business may be flexible gas plants that can accommodate intermittent power generation.
An engine provider for both marine vessels and power plants, Finnish company Wärtsilä is busy expanding its flexible, fast-start gas-fired generation business in North America. On August 18, the company announced the commissioning of a new Modesta, California 49.6 MW natural gas plant, that uses six 20-cylinder 34SG Wärtsilä engines that can ramp up to full power within five minutes of being turned on and reach optimum efficiency within another five minutes. Keep reading →
Solar companies are dropping like flies.
A California based cylindrical solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing company with offices around the world, Solyndra, is shutting down operations today and will file for bankruptcy, the company said in a statement. Roughly 1,100 employees are being laid off today as well. Keep reading →
It’s hard to imagine that one day the world may look very different than it does now, but in this video San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) urges consumers to imagine a new reality.
A world with digital technology tracking and managing the grid, a smart grid, in real time, a world with ample infrastructure and recharging stations for electric cars and a world with automated demand response systems that link directly to home appliances may have once seemed impossible, but these innovations are already here, this video claims. In a series of storylines, Sempra-owned SDG&E outlines in this video its efforts in each of these areas. Keep reading →
