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Costco Is Planning a New Microgrid for its Tire Center Warehouse

From EEPower.com: Shannon Cuthrell

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Image: EEPower.com by Trinity Energy (Costco’s Norwalk, CT Warehouse)

Costco is planning a new microgrid (off the grid) for its tire center warehouse in Norwalk, CT. “The modular battery and solar system, engineered and installed by Washington-based Trinity Energy, is designed to deliver up to 2 MWh per day without being tied to the grid. By choosing an off-grid design, Costco avoids interconnection delays and upgrade costs that often stall commercial electrification projects, while gaining a reliable on-site power supply.

Trinity Energy’s microgrid systems are flexible due to their modular architecture and scalable as off-grid infrastructure for sites like fleet depots, multi-family properties, and hospitality buildings. The company’s installations often integrate solar generation, battery storage, energy distribution systems, and inverters.”

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Duke Power Plans for a new Natural Gas Generation Plant in South Carolina

Power-Eng.com by Kevin Clark:

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Image: Power-Eng.com, Duke Energy’s Existing W.S. Lee Station-Anderson County SC

Duke Energy has announced its “plans to file an application with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSCSC) to construct a new natural gas-fired power plant in Anderson County.

This would be the company’s first request to build new generation capacity in South Carolina in ten years. The combined-cycle plant is expected to have a generating capacity of approximately 1,400 megawatts (MW) and would use nearby existing transmission infrastructure.”

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Large Engineering Firm Completes a Renewable Break-Through Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Study for the UK

PowerMag.com by Darrell Proctor:

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Image: PowerMag.com (Darrell Proctor) & Black & Veatch

One of the leading engineering firms and “infrastructure developer, Black & Veatch, announced the company has completed execution of a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the Whitelee Green Hydrogen Project near Glasgow, Scotland. Whitelee is a proposed development by owner ScottishPower Energy Retail Limited. The contract was awarded to Black & Veatch in October 2024.

The project will produce green hydrogen, which is produced using electricity from renewable sources, such as wind, and converting it using an electrolyser, which uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis.”

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Power Suppliers Are Expediting Plans for Renewable Systems to Benefit from Rapid Dissolving Tax Credits

UtilityDive.com by Diana DiGangi:

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Image: Christopher Furlong, Getty Images

Power companies are accelerating their planned power projects for connecting renewable energies to the grid to benefit from the swift dissolving ‘Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.’

Several power utilities, such as “Xcel Energy, WEC Energy Group, CMS Energy, and Ameren are planning to accelerate projects originally slated for 2030–31 into 2027–28.”

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TVA Submitted the Nation’s First Construction Permit Application to the NRC for a new Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Plant

TVA.com: Scott Fiedler

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Image: TVA.com Clinch River, GE SMR

TVA announced it was “the first utility in the U.S. to submit a construction permit application (CPA) for the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) small modular reactor (SMR) BWRX-300 technology to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission – the agency that issues licenses for constructing, operating and decommissioning nuclear power plants.

This CPA is TVA’s next step in pursuing an SMR at its Clinch River site, near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and establishing America’s energy dominance to power artificial intelligence, quantum computing and advanced manufacturing.

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