Category: Conventional Fuels

November 10, 2023

A government agency in China announced that operators of coal-fired power plants will receive guaranteed payments based on the installed capacity of their units, part of a program to ensure a stable power supply across the country. The National Development […]

November 9, 2023

In what is being called a game-changer in terms of scientific research, a new gas-detecting probe has been able to find what could be up to 250 million tons of so-called “white” hydrogen, a naturally occurring form of hydrogen, in […]

November 8, 2023

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and NuScale Power Corp. (NuScale) have mutually agreed to terminate the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), a small modular reactor (SMR) project that was planned for construction on Idaho National Laboratory (INL) property near […]

November 6, 2023

Nuclear energy has had some successful scalings in the past, but seems incapable of it today. A big part of it is that the tenets of free market capitalism cause it to fall over. The same is true for small […]

November 1, 2023

According to IRENA’s World Energy Transition Outlook, hydrogen and its derivates are projected to make up 14% of global total final energy consumption by 2050 in a world aiming to stay under a 1.5-degree temperature increase. The eighth meeting of […]

October 31, 2023

Southern Nuclear, Southern Company’s nuclear power plant operations business, announced in late September that it had received “first-of-a-kind approval” from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use advanced fuel—accident tolerant fuel (ATF)—exceeding 5% enrichment of uranium-235 (U-235) in Plant Vogtle […]

October 30, 2023

Copec and Linde unveiled a new hydrogen fueling dispenser developed to fuel the first hydrogen bus to operate in Chile. The project was launched by the subsidiary Copec Voltex and took four years of research and development to complete. The […]

October 27, 2023

Duke Energy, GE Vernova, and Sargent and Lundy will team up on a pioneering project to demonstrate an end-to-end energy system that produces, stores, and combusts 100% renewable hydrogen at Duke Energy’s DeBary solar plant in Florida. Duke Energy on […]

October 26, 2023

The much-watched Advanced Clean Energy Storage Hub (ACES Delta)—a project shaping up to be the largest renewable hydrogen energy hub in the U.S.—has received its first shipment of large-scale hydrogen electrolyzers and gas separators. The shipment, unveiled on Oct. 25, […]

October 25, 2023

A variety of industries are looking at nuclear power as a way to reduce their carbon footprint and provide a reliable source of electricity. Technology companies, along with industries such as mining and shipping, are exploring the use of nuclear […]

October 25, 2023

ANDI and Naturgas have launched the first hydrogen corridor project in Colombia together with nine companies. “The Hydrogen Corridor is not just a concept, it is about rethinking the way we transport cargo in a country where more than 95% […]

October 24, 2023

FirstElement Fuel has opened a new high-capacity retail hydrogen station in Oakland (California) expanding its True Zero hydrogen network to 41 locations. The new hydrogen station has 4 dispensers capable of simultaneously providing H70 standard fills with a capacity of […]

October 20, 2023

A consortium that includes power industry giants Siemens Energy and ENGIE said it completed what the group called the world’s first operational test of a gas turbine fueled with 100% renewable hydrogen. Siemens Energy on Oct. 13 said the HYFLEXPOWER […]

October 19, 2023

Constellation Energy will use a portion of newly announced federal funding for the Midwest Hydrogen Hub (MachH2) to build “the world’s largest nuclear-powered clean hydrogen facility” at its 2.3-GW LaSalle Clean Energy Center in Illinois. The company on Oct. 16 […]

October 13, 2023

Seven regional hydrogen hubs spanning Appalachia, California, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, the American heartland, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Pacific Northwest are poised to receive $7 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding under the Department of Energy’s […]

October 12, 2023

Greenpoint has opened Europe’s first underground hydrogen refueling station in Dordrecht, Netherlands. With its tanks, compressors and other components completely hidden below the ground, only the dispensing pumps are above ground, which are able to refuel cars, buses and trucks. […]

October 11, 2023

In recent months I’ve been leaning into the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism. I am asked about it regularly, including during a Dalian Chinese business executive presentation on Europe’s carbon neutrality pathways. Most recently, I published an assessment of the […]

October 10, 2023

Hydrogen fuel cell stakeholders have been slow to crack the US market for passenger cars, to say the least. However, the heavy duty truck market is a different story altogether. In the latest development, the fuel cell truck maker Hyzon […]

October 9, 2023

A Texas utility that expects to bring another 228 MW of natural gas-fired power generation online in December also plans to begin operating an additional four gas-fired units over the next several years, according to regulatory filings. El Paso Electric […]

October 9, 2023

An Indiana-based utility said it has launched a multi-phase hydrogen blending project, a move that supports one of the first such installations in the U.S. to mix hydrogen and natural gas at precise levels to achieve optimal performance. NiSource said […]