Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

TerraPower and PacifiCorp announced efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. The companies are evaluating several potential locations in the state. The reactor maintains its thermal power constant during its entire operating period, maximizing its capacity factor and value.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion batteries, has moved to a new US headquarters in Richmond, California. The company’s North and South American operations will be based there. —Paul Beach, president of Octillion Power Systems. Octillion also supplies batteries for the energy-storage market.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

Once it comes online, the Natrium demonstration plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, will be a fully functioning commercial power plant. It’s being constructed near the retiring coal-fired Naughton power plant and is the world’s only coal-to-nuclear project under development. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million LA-area homes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, has closed an equity raise that yields a minimum of $750 million. SK Group is among South Korea’s largest energy providers and the second-largest conglomerate. The reactor maintains its thermal power constant during its entire operating period, maximizing its capacity factor and value.

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