The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued an order rejecting the amended Susquehanna Interconnection Service Agreement between PJM Interconnection, PPL Electric Utilities and Talen Energy Corporation proposing to increase the load capacity of Amazon’s data centre at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. In March, Talen announced the sale of its 960 …
The first of two demonstration Guohe One (CAP1400) reactors at Huaneng Group’s Shidaowan site in China’s Shandong province has been connected to the grid. The 1400 MWe pressurised water reactor design is intended to be deployed in large numbers across the country, as well as for export. The CAP1400 is an enlarged version of the …
Google is interested in colocation to meet its data center needs, not to avoid grid costs, said Brian George, the company’s U.S. federal lead for global energy market development. Making sure the grid has adequate power supplies was one of the top issues that emerged during a technical conference on colocating data center load at …
The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to operate in three years. Constellation provided a timeline for restarting the plant during a public meeting Friday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Constellation made a deal with Microsoft to provide enough …
Japan’s Hokkaido Electric Power (9509.T), opens new tab and Chugoku Electric Power (9504.T), opens new tab said on Thursday they had booked extraordinary profits for the April-September period from selling previously acquired nuclear fuel. Neither utility has been able to restart any nuclear power plants since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster which prompted stricter safety standards in Japan. Hokkaido …
The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) has decided in the first instance on the proposals of the companies Électricité de France and Westinghouse Electric Company LLC against the procedure of the contracting authority Elektrárna Dukovany II in the tender for the construction of a new nuclear power plant. …
Premier Cho Jung-tai, left, and Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo report to the legislature in Taipei yesterday. The government would keep an open mind about nuclear energy if issues of safety, effective radioactive waste disposal and public trust can be resolved, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said yesterday. During a briefing at the legislature on …
Lim Seung-cheol, secretary general of the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC), speaks in an interview with Yonhap News Agency at the NSSC headquarters in central Seoul on Oct. 22, 2024, in this photo provided by his office. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) South Korea’s nuclear safety agency will work to “swiftly” devise safety regulations …
A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear power plant was restarted Tuesday for the first time since the disaster after a safety upgrade, as the government pursues a renewed expansion of nuclear energy to provide stable power and reduce carbon emissions. The No. …
The No. 2 reactor, front center, at the Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue on April 12 (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Chugoku Electric Power Co. announced on Oct. 28 that it has begun loading nuclear fuel into the No. 2 reactor of Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue ahead of its planned restart later this …
