Some parties involved in energy policy discussions are deliberately confusing participants by talking about “generation capacity” instead of “capacity factor”, the measure of how much energy an electric power generator produces on average over time. Capacity factors vary widely among power generation types and they are a part of the calculations that investors make whenContinue reading “Know Your Energy: Capacity vs. Capacity Factor vs. Forecasted Capacity”
Category Archives: Nuclear
NuScale Power Makes History as the First Ever Small Modular Reactor to Receive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Design Approval
A significant regulatory milestone accomplished as NuScale readies to bring its SMR technology to market this decade. From BusinessWire: NuScale Power announced today that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed Phase 6 review—the last and final phase—of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the company’s groundbreaking small modular reactor (SMR) with the issuance ofContinue reading “NuScale Power Makes History as the First Ever Small Modular Reactor to Receive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Design Approval”
Keeping Things in Perspective: Government Support to Energy Industries
From AWEA Power of Wind: http://www.powerofwind.org/incentives Senator Grassley (R-IA) put U.S. energy incentives in perspective at an April 3, 2014 Senate Finance Committee hearing. The following is a transcript of his remarks: “… Many of us have been clamoring for tax reform for years now. Just because we haven’t cleaned up the tax code inContinue reading “Keeping Things in Perspective: Government Support to Energy Industries”
