Delving into the world’s largest carbon capture project, ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek CCUS facility, reveals a highly questionable technology. ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) facility is designed to remove CO2 from gas to produce marketable methane. About half of that CO2 has been vented into the atmosphere over Read more…
To modernize the industry, nuclear power is making the transition toward smaller reactors. But a report from Taxpayers for Common Sense claims federal subsidies to help the industry along are a losing bet. According to the group, the Department of Energy has spent more than $1.2 billion on small modular reactors, and Read more…
Pueblo County officials say they are pulling back their support for replacing the state’s largest coal-fired power plant with a nuclear reactor following a public outcry from residents.
February 17, 2022 (IEEFA)—A small modular reactor (SMR) that NuScale has been developing since the turn of the century is “too late, too expensive, too risky and too uncertain,” according to an analysis of the project by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Delays, mismanagement, overruns may leave Georgia Power ratepayers with enormous cost burden Once estimated at more than $14 billion, the price tag for two new reactors at Georgia Power Company’s Plant Vogtle site has now climbed past $30 billion, and both units will be more than six years late in Read more…
PacifiCorp recently released its 2021 Integrated Resource Plan, which forecasts future demand for power in the region and the sources of electrical energy PacifiCorp has determined will be necessary to meet this demand most efficiently and reliably. The Wyoming Public Service Commission has solicited public comments leading up to its review of the Read more…
In a state known for its strong winds, Wyoming’s elected officials sure don’t seem to have learned how to gauge how hard or which direction the winds are blowing. At least where energy markets are concerned, they would rather bury their heads in the coal than acknowledge that the nation Read more…
A proposal to build a carbon capture project at a coal plant in North Dakota faces delays, higher than expected costs, and a key contractor who said it won’t construct the facility, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, which are quarterly reports submitted to Read more…
– The Department of Energy increased its share of the costs to study a carbon capture proposal at the San Juan Generating Station in the final week of the Trump administration. – Enchant has focused its spending on lobbyists for additional subsidies from Congress, federal agencies, and the state of Read more…
When state officials unveiled in June that a nuclear demonstration project is slated for Wyoming, they touted it as an advanced technology. But critics of the Natrium project say we’ve been here before — with the same technology and the same assurances made — only to see hopes dashed and massive public Read more…