Power

Hydropower Plant

Hydropower’s Role in Achieving Net Zero and Energy Security Is Focus of Global Campaign

A new campaign calling for urgent investment in hydropower to combat climate change, accelerate progress towards net zero and strengthen energy security is bein…

Energy Security

Safety Upgrade for 95-Year-Old Swedish Hydropower Plant

Photo courtesy NCCStatkraft has commissioned Nordic construction company NCC to implement dam safety-enhancing measures at the 80MW Hammarforsen hydropower plan…

Personnel Appointment

Lori Clark Officially Named President and CEO of NB Power

(photo courtesy NB Power)The New Brunswick Power Corporation Board of Directors announces the official appointment of Lori Clark as president and chief executiv…

Hydropower Plant

Last Wild Atlantic Salmon Can Survive Maine Dams, Feds Say

FILE - The Weston Dam holds back the Kennebec River on Sept. 14, 2021, in Skowhegan, Maine. The federal government ruled Monday, March 20, 2023, that the last w…

Hydropower Plant

NCC to Remodel Hammarforsen Hydropower Plant for Statkraft

NCC has announced it has been commissioned by Statkraft to help improve dam safety at the Hammarforsen hydropower plant, including remodelling a spillway to inc…

Pumped Storage

£100 Million Investment Boost for Coire Glas Pumped Storage Scheme in Scotland

The planned 150MW Coire Glas scheme in Scotland – billed as Britain’s biggest pumped storage scheme in 40 years – is to receive a £100 m…

Electric Car

What’s the Impact of Charging EVs on a Power Grid Under Strain?

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia doubled in 2022 and Tesla's Model 3 emerged as the best-selling mid-size car, the first time an EV has he…

Energy Technology

Innovative Filtration System Shortens Schedule and Delivers Radwaste Savings

BWR spent fuel pool dual SCF system with shields.The return of low natural gas prices combined with the advent of high efficiency renewables has placed more pre…

Energy Security

Leak of Radioactive Water at Monticello Makes Headlines

The Monticello nuclear power plant.An Xcel Energy news release issued last week regarding the leak of some 400,000 gallons of tritium-containing water at Minnes…

Nuclear waste

Krško Dry Storage Facility for Used Fuel Preparing for Launch

Slovenia's project to build a dry storage facility for used fuel is set to be completed later this year with the transfer of the first 592 used fuel element…

SMR

Finland, Sweden and Ukraine consider Rolls-Royce SMRs

Britain's Rolls-Royce SMR has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to explore the deployment of its small modular reactor (SMR) in Finland and Sweden,…

Nuclear waste

Deep Borehole Disposal Suitable for Some UK Wastes, Report Finds

Deep borehole disposal cannot replace the UK's need for a geological disposal facility (GDF) but may nevertheless have a helpful role to play in the disposa…

Nuclear Power Plant

Hot functional testing begins at Vogtle 4

Georgia Power has announced that the last series of major tests ahead of initial fuel load is under way at the second new nuclear unit at the site near Waynesbo…

Energy Saving

Researchers Present New Theory of Convection for Understanding Fast Charging of Batteries

MechSE Associate Professor Kyle Smith and doctoral student Md Abdul Hamid recently published an article in the Journal of Power Sources.Their study, "A bottom-u…

Wind Turbine

Edda Wind Nets Csovs Contracts With Vestas

Offshore wind service vessel company Edda Wind has signed contracts with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas for its commissioning service operation ves…