Gas Infrastructure News
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FERC, NERC Release Final Report on Lessons from Winter Storm Elliott
FERC and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) this week released the final report on Winter Storm Elliott, the Christmas 2022 storm that contributed to power outages for millions of electricity customers in the Eastern half of the country. The 167-page report recommends completion of needed cold weather reliability standard revisions initially identified after 2021's Winter ...
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Tanzania’s Manufacturing Sector Partners Clarke Energy on Self-Power Generation
Tanzania’s manufacturing industries have adopted self-power generation for the sake of reliability and safety of their machines. The idea comes while Tanzania is facing power cuts, due to the lack of sufficient rains that caused a drop in hydro-electricity production, and an increase in the use of electricity in the country. At an estimated 57 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves both in ...
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Con Edison's Clean Energy Investments Approved by State
On July 20, 2023, Con Edison received state approval for critical clean energy investments that will help New York transition away from fossil fuels. The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) ruling sets electric and gas rates through 2025 and advances an investment plan totaling $11.8 billion. That plan will help reach the state and city's clean energy goals and funds initiatives that ...
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Quantum Fuel Systems Announces Third 2023 Order by VoltaGrid for Compressed Natural Gas Virtual Pipeline Trailers
Quantum Fuel Systems (Quantum), a fully integrated alternative energy company, has been selected by VoltaGrid for the third time in 2023 to deliver market-leading virtual pipeline trailers for natural gas. This new order will increase VoltaGrid’s CNG delivery capabilities as it significantly expands its network of clean energy fuels. “All customer orders are considered a success, but ...
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NextEra Energy Partners, LP Announce Plan to Become 100% Renewables Investment Opportunity
NextEra Energy Partners, LP this week (May 8) is announcing a plan to concentrate solely on growing its high-quality renewable energy portfolio, capitalizing on the low-cost nature of renewables and the significant capital investment needed to decarbonize the U.S. economy. To execute on this vision, NextEra Energy Partners will focus on its core strengths, eliminate a significant amount of ...
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World’s First 100% Hydrogen Backup Power Solution
In a world first, NorthC Datacentres (NorthC) have selected INNIO’s Jenbacher 100% H2 capable engines for backup power of their upcoming data centre in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Six Jenbacher Type 4 engines have been acquired to deliver 1MW of continuous power each, as a backup solution in the event of a disruption to their grid connection. Onsite hydrogen storage will ensure that the data ...
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Piedmont Natural Gas, Duke Energy remind customers to call 811 before beginning spring digging projects
National Safe Digging Month recognizes the importance of calling 811 to mark underground utility lines prior to digging and excavating. B-roll here: Piedmont Natural Gas worker locating, marking and flagging utility lines before a yard project. Video here: Learn more about how the 811 process works. April is Safe Digging Month, and Piedmont Natural Gas and Duke Energy are reminding ...
By Duke Energy
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Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas celebrate natural gas employees on Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day
March 18 spotlights natural gas employees’ role in serving nearly 187 million Americans with safe, reliable natural gas Natural gas technicians play vital role in modernizing the natural gas delivery system for growing communities and to meet the company’s net-zero methane emissions goals B-roll: Natural gas employees Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas celebrate the eighth ...
By Duke Energy
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Duke Energy Florida files to save customers approximately $8.50 monthly due to lower fuel prices
Today, Duke Energy Florida updated its fuel and capacity rate request due to falling natural gas cost projections, which will lower a typical residential customer bill by approximately $8.50 per month. If approved, the monthly bill for a typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh would be $190.56. The new rate will take effect beginning April 2023. The change will save customers $8.48 per ...
By Duke Energy
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Historic Signing: Iwatani, SG H2 & City of Lancaster to Launch California’s First Complete Green Hydrogen Transportation Eco-System, A Model for the World
In a historic agreement, marked today by the signing ceremony, global energy company SG H2 Energy, the City of Lancaster and Iwatani (Tokyo Stock Exchange - 8088), Japan’s leading hydrogen industrial gas company and a major developer of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) in the State of California, are launching California’s first closed-loop green hydrogen ecosystem for ...
By SGH2 Energy
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Greener than Green Hydrogen Company SGH2 Signs Largest Green H2 Offtake Deals in History to Help Decarbonize the California Transportation Sector
Today, the global energy company SGH2 Energy announced the execution of contracts between its subsidiary SGH2 Lancaster Project Company, LLC and two of California’s largest owners and operators of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS). The companies will use SGH2’s greener than green hydrogen to supply both existing and 90 new refueling stations, which are being rolled out across the ...
By SGH2 Energy
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ARENA Backs Eight Grid Scale Batteries Worth $2.7 Billion
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $176 million in conditional funding to eight grid scale battery projects across Australia. Funded under ARENA’s Large Scale Battery Storage Funding Round, each battery will be equipped with grid-forming inverter technology, allowing them to provide essential system stability services traditionally ...
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Why Tyre Pyrolysis Plants Are Helpful
A tyre pyrolysis plant uses an industrial process that converts used tyres into liquid fuel, including oils and gases. The two main forms of processes utilized: direct and indirect. In a direct process, the rubber is heated in a oxygen-free environment at 300 to 600 °C for several hours, causing the hydrocarbon chains inside the tyre to interrupt down into smaller pieces. A byproduct of this ...
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SoCalGas Successfully Tests Microgrid Demonstration Project in Downey
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) this week announced that its [H2] Innovation Experience in Downey is now using renewable hydrogen that is produced onsite. The project will demonstrate the resiliency and reliability of a renewable hydrogen microgrid that can power neighborhoods. The [H2] Innovation Experience features a nearly 2,000 square-foot home that can use reliable and clean hydrogen ...
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World's First "GridOptimal" Building is Sonoma Clean Power's Headquarters
Sonoma Clean Power (SCP) recently unveiled its new all-electric headquarters which features an innovative microgrid, and goes far beyond "net zero energy" standards by reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the State's electric grid. Located at 431 E Street in Santa Rosa, California, the two-year renovation transformed a 1979 structure into the world's first GridOptimal® building that enables and ...
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Denmark's Energinet selects Hitachi Energy's Lumada APM for Asset Management
Hitachi Energy this week announced that Energinet, Denmark's national transmission system operator (TSO), has accelerated their digital journey with the selection of Hitachi's industry-leading Lumada Asset Performance Management (APM) solution. This latest collaboration between Hitachi Energy and Energinet will help the TSO better assess grid reinvestments needed to achieve their 2030 carbon ...
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Summit Utilities, Support RNG Biogas Plant Resilience with CHP
Clarke Energy has secured a project to build and supply a 280kW combined heat and power (CHP) system to support the operation of a biogas plant treating dairy farm waste in Maine, USA. A CoEnergy 280NC combined heat and powered system with black start capability and a 500kW KOHLER natural gas fired back up generator will help support Peaks Renewables’ biogas plant’s energy ...
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New IRENA Report: A Quarter of Global Hydrogen Set for Trading by 2050
To make hydrogen trade cost-effective, the costs of producing and trading green hydrogen must be lower than domestic production to offset higher transport costs. A new report series released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) sees hydrogen trade significantly contributing to a more diversified and resilient energy system. ‘Global hydrogen trade to meet the 1.5°C climate goal’ ...
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Supporting the Journey to Net Zero
The journey to net-zero presents many questions about where combined heat and power (CHP) gas engines fit into the future of the UK energy network. Achieving net-zero cannot come at the expense of fuel poverty or energy blackouts and it is therefore vital to balance the ‘Energy Trilemma’ of sustainability, affordability, and security during the transition. CHP remains a highly ...
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10 Years After Hurricane Sandy, PSE&G Is Considerably More Prepared
Public Service Electric and Gas, New Jersey’s largest utility, is well prepared to support customers and the state for what experts say could be another very active hurricane season. Ten years after Superstorm Sandy raged across the East Coast, PSE&G reports that the company continues to protect customers’ utility service from the damaging impact of extreme weather by ...
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