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  • Making the Power Grid Great Again

    06/15/2025 12:22:56 PM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    Real Clear Wire. ^ | June 12, 2025 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth
    Yesterday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the proposed repeal of the Biden-era’s Clean Power Plan 2.0, which ruled that coal-fired and many new natural gas power plants must capture and store over 90% of their carbon emissions by the 2030s—or shut down by 2040. It’s a costly mandate, resting on shaky legal and technical foundations. Americans would be fortunate to have it repealed. President Biden issued his Clean Power Plan 2.0 after the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency that President Obama’s Clean Power Plan 1.0 exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) statutory authority. The Court’s...
  • Trump says he expects to sign Ukraine minerals deal soon

    03/24/2025 11:32:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 11 replies
    Reuters AOL News ^ | Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland
    U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he expects a U.S.-Ukraine revenue-sharing agreement on Ukrainian critical minerals will be signed soon. Trump also told reporters as he met his Cabinet that the United States is talking to Ukraine about the potential for American firms owning Ukrainian power plants. -snip- "We're talking about territory right now. We're talking about lines of demarcation, Talking about power, power plant ownership. Some people are saying the United States should own the power plant...because we have the expertise," he said.
  • Supreme Court Deals Heavy Blow To Environmentalist Group, Liberal Justice Kagan Sides With Conservatives

    04/12/2021 6:10:55 AM PDT · by TrumpianRepublican · 15 replies
    Conservative Brief ^ | 4/12 | Martin Walsh
    The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a heavy blow to a major left-wing environmental group. In the 7-2 ruling, the justices sided with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, thwarting the Sierra Club’s bid to obtain documents concerning a regulation finalized in 2014 relating to power plants.
  • Boiling Point: Farewell to Ivanpah, the world’s ugliest solar plant

    01/29/2025 7:27:34 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 54 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | January 27, 2025 | By Sammy Roth
    Sometimes, government makes a bad bet. Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A. to Las Vegas, in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada state line. Maybe you’ve read about birds getting fried to death as they fly through the sunlight directed to the tops of the towers by fields of mirrors.
  • Biden Bragged About Building A Solar Farm In Africa. Taxpayers Are Fronting $900 Million For It

    06/15/2023 4:48:05 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 25 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | June 15, 2023 | JOHN HUGH DEMASTRI
    President Joe Biden on Wednesday bragged about his administration’s plans to build a solar farm in Africa that U.S. taxpayers are funding a $900 million loan for. Biden’s boast occurred during a speech hosted by the League of Conservation Voters, in which he promoted his administration’s energy and environmental policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a seemingly non-existent railroad from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean and “one of the largest solar plants in the world” in Angola. To fund this solar plant — which is a partnership between the Angolan government, and U.S.-based firms AfricaGlobal Schaffer and...
  • Multiple agencies responding to reports of explosion near Ray Nixon Power Plant (Colorado)

    09/05/2024 8:03:13 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 9 replies
    KRDO ^ | 9-5-24 | Tyler Dumas
    There was an incident earlier this afternoon involving a contract employee near an ash landfill, located to the south of the Ray Nixon and Front Range Power Plants. We contract with this company to maintain our heavy equipment/large trucks that move material – such as ash and coal – at the site. The Colorado Springs Fire Department will lead the investigation effort. The contractor’s employee has been airlifted to Denver for medical treatment. We cannot speak to his condition at this time. While our focus is on the health of this individual, we can report to our community that the...
  • Nuclear Threat in 1995 Went Unheeded

    03/12/2002 10:05:45 AM PST · by kattracks · 36 replies · 529+ views
    AP | 3/12/02 | JIM GOMEZ and DAFNA LINZER
    Mar 12, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- U.S. officials received a warning as early as 1995 that Islamic militants were plotting to attack an American nuclear site, but did not pass along the information to the agency that oversees nuclear facilities or to the plants themselves, The Associated Press has learned. The warning came in police interrogations of convicted terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad and from a computer seized in the Philippines from Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Both men were linked to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network, and...
  • New Biden admin rule seeks to eradicate American coal-fired power plants by 2039

    04/26/2024 1:52:02 PM PDT · by Twotone · 13 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | April 25, 2024 | Jarryd Jaeger
    On Thursday, Biden's Environmental Protection Agency announced a new set of rules aimed at reducing pollution from natural gas and coal-fired power plants by 90 percent by 2039. About 42,000 Americans work in the coal industry. Under the regulations, the nation's 200 or so coal-fired power plants will be forced to abide by strict new emissions standards unless they stop burning coal within ten years, in which case they will be allowed to follow the less stringent existing standards. According to the rules, a "new compliance path" for coal-fired power plants means they "will be able to continue meeting existing...
  • Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

    04/06/2024 5:39:05 PM PDT · by John W · 87 replies
    Washington Post via Yahoo Finance ^ | April 5, 2024 | Evan Halper
    Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid. In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of new electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently. Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent...
  • New England's last coal plants set to shutter, ushering in era of green energy.

    04/06/2024 5:11:56 AM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 130 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4.06.2024 | Thomas Catenacci
    The final coal-fired power plants in New England are slated to shutter in the coming years, making it the second region to phase out the energy source that powered the U.S. economy for decades.
  • Belgian Nuclear Facility Officer ‘Found Dead With His Pass Missing'

    03/26/2016 12:39:03 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 59 replies
    chicksontheright ^ | March 26, 2016
    Earlier this year, authorities found a tape with 12 hours of mysterious footage as the result of an anti-terrorism raid in Brussels. The hours of tape revealed that someone was spying on Belgium’s nuclear power chief, which led authorities to believe that the terrorist cell was likely planning on attacking a nuclear power plant or retrieving nuclear material to build a dirty bomb. It looks like they were right. Belgium is currently on “high alert” after authorities found a nuclear power plant security officer dead with his pass missing. The concerning development, which occurred on Thursday but was only reported...
  • Xcel Energy pitches new clean energy plan for Colorado that is nearly twice as costly as one it offered in 2021

    12/06/2023 6:36:51 AM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    Colorado Sun ^ | Dec 6, 2023 | Mark Jaffe
    Colorado utilities regulators will consider the new plan, which was revised in hopes of capturing lucrative renewable energy credits while slashing greenhouse gas emissions... Xcel Energy has a vision for Colorado’s clean energy future — one independent power producers, consumer advocates and regulators didn’t see coming — a vision that is both expensive, with a $15 billion price tag, and unparalleled in its sweep. Xcel Energy’s preferred electric resource plan submitted to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission in September includes 7,100 megawatts of new generation and storage, mainly wind and solar and nearly $3 billion in new transmission lines. “We...
  • We Will Work With Partners Around The World To Phase Out Unabated Coal (Power Plants)

    12/02/2023 5:50:45 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 31 replies
    Twitter ^ | 12/02/23 | John Kerry
    At #COP28 , I joined President @EmmanuelMacron & other leaders to proudly announce the United States is joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance. We will work with partners around the world to phase out unabated coal, an absolutely essential step for keeping 1.5 C within reach.
  • Car crashes through gate at South Carolina nuclear plant before pop-up barrier stops it

    11/04/2023 10:47:37 AM PDT · by EBH · 24 replies
    AP ^ | 11/3/23
    A driver tried to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant Thursday night about an hour after security asked the same car to leave when it tried to enter, authorities said. A pop-up security barrier stopped the car with an Arkansas license plate at the Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca around 8 p.m., Oconee County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Watt said in a statement. The driver backed up and tried to drive down a dirt road as Duke Energy security tried to block him in. The driver tried to hit the guards, then drove through a fence...
  • Germany approves bringing coal-fired power plants back online this winter

    10/05/2023 6:43:25 AM PDT · by george76 · 48 replies
    Reuters ^ | October 4, 2023
    Germany's cabinet on Wednesday approved putting on-reserve lignite-fired power plants back online from October until the end of March 2024, the economy ministry said, as a step to replace scarce natural gas this winter and avoid shortages. In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a sudden drop in Russian gas imports to Germany, Berlin reactivated coal-fired power plants and extended their lifespans, with a total output of 1.9 gigawatt hours generated last winter. Despite gas bottlenecks easing since last winter with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal deliveries, coal-fired power plans will be reactivated
  • Xcel will raise electric bills again next month. A quarter of the hike will cover closing coal-fired power plants.

    08/17/2023 7:08:00 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    Colorado Sun ^ | Aug 17, 2023 | Mark Jaffe
    The utility’s 1.6 million Colorado customers will see their bills rise 4.4% — about $4 on the average residential bill — on Sept. 1 ... lectricity bills for 1.6 million Colorado customers of Xcel Energy will rise 4.4% — about $3.99 on the average residential bill — on Sept. 1, under a settlement approved Wednesday by the state Public Utilities Commission. In 2022, Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest electricity supplier, filed for a $312 million rate hike, but under the settlement it will get an increase of $96 million. The reduced revenue figure was reached in a settlement between Xcel Energy...
  • Comments On The Insanity Of EPA's New Power Plant Rule

    08/14/2023 4:21:27 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 11 Aug, 2023 | Francis Menton
    On May 23, EPA put out its long-expected proposed Rule designed to eliminate, or nearly so, all so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions from the electricity-generation sector of the economy. The proposal came with the very long title: “New Source Performance Standards for GHG Emissions from New and Reconstructed EGUs; Emission Guidelines for GHG Emissions from Existing EGUs; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule.” The full document is 672 pages long. Various not-very-far-off deadlines are set, ranging from as early as 2030 for some changes to coal plants, to at the latest 2038 for the last changes to natural gas...
  • Biden Admin Preparing Major Crackdown On Power Plants That Fuel Nation's Grid

    04/23/2023 5:58:18 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 21 replies
    MSN ^ | 04/22/23 | Thomas Catenacci
    The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology.The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing officials briefed on a draft of the plan. The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions."EPA cannot comment because the proposals are currently...
  • China Is Approving New Coal Plants At Break-Neck Speed As The Biden Admin Pushes To Shut US Generators Down

    02/28/2023 4:02:49 AM PST · by george76 · 42 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 27, 2023 | John Hugh DeMastri
    China approved 168 coal-fired power plants in 2022, the most rapid expansion of the country’s coal-fired power capacity since 2015, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM) Monday. Chinese companies began constructing 50 gigawatts (GW) worth of coal-fired power capacity in 2022, more than triple the rest of the world put together and spiking 50% from 2021, according to the report. Conversely, President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to lead to the retirement of 30 GW to 60 GW of U.S. coal-fired power...
  • Blackout risk: Nation’s largest grid operator warns of capacity shortfalls

    02/24/2023 4:27:54 PM PST · by george76 · 35 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | February 24, 2023 | Jeremy Beaman,
    The nation's largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants. It's a challenge facing grid operators across the country as power generators mothball coal and natural gas-fired plants for various reasons, such as reducing high maintenance and regulatory compliance costs or cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ... PJM Interconnection, which manages grid operations across 13 states and the District of Columbia, published new analysis Friday showing retirements outpacing new additions in the coming years that could leave its service area short of...