Ice Storage system saves school $85,000 - Electricity Forum News Whereas typical school designs today use 3 watts sq ft , FRHS uses only 1 6 watts sq ft Projected over the life of the building, energy savings from the building's mechanical, plumbing, irrigation and lighting systems are estimated at more than $6 million at current utility rates
Winds too fickle at Boston City Hall - EF News The microturbine planned for City Hall's roof, donated by Southwest Windpower of Flagstaff, Ariz , will produce only 1,800 watts, less than 2 percent as much as the Local 103 wind turbine
TVA plant signals start of nuclear renaissance - EF News Knoxville-based TVA — the country's largest public utility, serving 8 7 million consumers in Tennessee and six surrounding states — also expects to decide by late summer if it will complete a second reactor at its Watts Bar plant in Spring City, Tenn Watts Bar, the last new nuclear plant in the U S , came online in 1996 after 22 years of construction TVA still holds a construction
Despite rising costs, TVA says nuclear plants economical TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1 near Spring City, Tenn , was the last nuclear power generator completed by a U S utility It cost nearly $7 billion in 1996 TVA's two other plants, the twin-reactor Sequoyah station near Chattanooga and the three-reactor Browns Ferry plant near Athens, Ala , were completed in the 1970s at far lower costs
Saudis building solar-powered desalination plant With abundant supply of sunlight and saline water, Saudi Arabia is planning to build the country's first solar-powered water desalination plant This is the first part of a three-stage program to ensure energy security and provide drinking water to Saudis Saudi Arabia produces about 18% of the
Nuclear Is A Clean And Safe Alternative - EF News A new reactor hasnt opened since Watts Bar 1 went online in Tennessee in 1996 During the 2008 campaign, President Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle he wanted to put in place policies that would bankrupt anyone who tried to build a new coal plant
ACR-1000 achieves important milestone in pre-project design review The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has completed Phase 1 of a Pre Project Design Review of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) Advanced CANDU Reactor (ACR-1000) The conclusion is that, at the high level, the ACR-1000 design is compliant with Canadian regulations With completion of
Canadian Industry Increases Energy Efficiency by 1. 8% OTTAWA -- - Canada's mining, manufacturing and construction industry has improved energy efficiency by more than 18 percent in the last 11 years, according to the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation's (CIPEC) most recent report This equates to reduced annual energy costs of more than $2 8 billion through effective energy use