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Energy policy will change under GOP House

November 11, 2010 by Daniel Fine, Ph.D
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With the Republican Party's newly won control of the House of Representatives, national energy policy could be rolled back to 2005, with all legislative advances under a Democratic Party majority at risk. Republicans could adopt a dual-track strategy that attacks energy regulation through budget reductions of the Environmental Protection Agency that de-fund efforts to impose carbon emissions on industrial infrastructure, at a minimum coal-burning utilities and the gas and oil complex of extraction and refining. [read more]

New Mexico uranium enrichment plant gets NRC green light for start-up

June 11, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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The first commercial enrichment plant built in the U.S. can begin commercial operations Anyone who thinks there isn’t going to be a nuclear renaissance in the U.S. needs to take a look at the multi-billion bet placed by Urenco at the Louisiana Energy Services plant in Eunice, NM. The NRC said in a statement it completed the... [read more]

Chevron Breaks Ground on Nation’s Largest CPV Plant

May 17, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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Chevron Energy Solutions, the clean spot on the face of oil-and-gas giant Chevron Corporation, announced on Thursday that it had broken ground on what the company says will be the largest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power plant in the United States. The 1-megawatt plant is being built in Questa, New Mexico. It will consist of... [read more]

First Solar to Add 30 MW Solar Plant in New Mexico

March 27, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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First Solar, Southern Co. and Turner Renewable Energy inked a deal last week that will add 30 megawatts of utility-scale solar power to the New Mexico electric grid. First Solar announced the project, which will consist of 500,000 cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panels made by the thin-film industry’s leading manufacturer.... [read more]

Int’l Isotopes submits NRC license

January 5, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Firm plans to build a facility in Hobbs, NM, to extract fluorine from depleted uranium International Isotopes Inc. (OTC:INIS) announced Jan 4 it submitted its license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its depleted uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility. The plant would convert... [read more]

The solar panels that pay for themselves…

November 10, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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From the Texas Energy and Environment Blog, reports that in New Mexico “solar panels on homes can take as little as seven years to pay for themselves in energy savings.”  The post continues: That’s faster than Texas, where even in the best economic case, solar panels take at least a decade to pay for themselves. New Mexico’s... [read more]

Market designs for Tres Amigas: How about trilateral market coupling?

October 21, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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More thoughts on economic issues related to the Tres Amigas project, an ambitious proposal to connect the Western, Eastern, and Texas electric grids via a three-way high tech transmission link located in eastern New Mexico. (Earlier: Tres Amigas intro and Economics for …). Europeans have had several years of experience connecting... [read more]

Tres Amigas project proposes to connect Eastern, Western, and Texas power grids

October 14, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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A high-profile, high-technology power project is making waves well beyond the small town of Clovis, New Mexico, where it has secured land for development. I’ve been telling my students and anyone else I can induce to listen to me for a few minutes (i.e., mostly just my students) that my new hometown of Lubbock, Texas is in an... [read more]

Jetstream announces more utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plants

July 25, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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Just days after the company reportedly broke ground on their first plant in New Mexico, the Honolulu Advertiser reports that Jetstream Wind, Inc., has indicated plans to build another one of the “world’s first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plants” at Molokai, Hawaii: The Molokai plant, proposed by Jetstream Wind Inc.,... [read more]

Hyperion Valued At $100 Million

May 20, 2009 by Jacob Mazer
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By Jacob Mazer, Assistant Editor, Fuel Cycle Week Hyperion Power Generation has received media attention this week, with articles that observed in wonderment the company’s $100 million valuation—a significant sum, especially given that its product is an untested technology several years from deployment. The company plans to sell a line... [read more]