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PG&E requests federal extension of operations at Diablo Canyon Power Plant

In 2016, California legislators decided to shut down the power plant – a decision that it reversed last year. The current operating licenses for Units 1 and 2 would otherwise expire in 2024 and 2025, respectively.

AP News

The lawsuit marks the latest development in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the Diablo Canyon plant, which California’s governor says should keep running beyond 2025.

PG&E, Energy Vault to build green hydrogen long-duration storage project

The project is still pending regulatory approval.

AP News

California legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office are discussing a possible compromise over the future of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant that could allow operator Pacific Gas & Electric to seek federal funds for a longer lifespan for the reactors.

Gas

The effort would examine the future potential of hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel source for not only PG&E customers, but the entire global natural gas industry.

News

Inspectors with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) failed to properly inspect Diablo Canyon Power Plant pipes before a cooling system leak shut down one of the plant’s two reactors for eight days in 2020.

Portland utility targets distributed energy, smart grid in net-zero plan

Portland General Electric has outlined a path to net-zero emissions that relies on rapidly adding renewable energy assets and utilizing customer-sited distribut…

Backed by EPRI, major utilities launch initiative to accelerate economy-wide deep decarbonization

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Gas Technology Institute (GTI) announced this week that they are embarking on a five-year initiative to acceler…

PG&E readies dual-fuel Humboldt Bay station for “islanding” in event of grid shutdown

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has reconfigured its dual-fuel Humboldt Bay Generating Station to directly power area customers in the event of a major system-wi…

Southern Gas investing $2.5 million toward multi-state coronavirus relief effort

Southern Company Gas Foundation, Southern Co. Gas and its subsidiaries are donating $2.5 million toward the coronavirus relief efforts in seven states. The mone…

Pacific Gas & Electric donating one million (masks and dollars) to coronavirus relief effort

Pacific Gas & Electric is donating nearly one million medical masks to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency office in response to the COVID-19 pandemi…

Emissions

Massachusetts utilities clearly lead the way on saving energy, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. The ACEEE’s latest Utility S…

AEP, Eversource, PGE among utilities named in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Several utilities and service companies are lauded for their diversity efforts in the new, expanded Bloomberg 2020 Gender-Equality Index. Bloomberg’s latest i…

Subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy announced that construction has begun on a 100-MW utility-scale solar project in Arkansas. Work on the Chic…

Combined Cycle

Siemens is going to supply two of its HL-class gas turbines to a planned new combined-cycle (CCGT) power plant in South Korea. Those will be the first HL-class …