The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported summer capacity factors for the nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants. No fewer than 21 nuclear units had capacity factors that exceeded 100%. And ...

For the first time on record, the average capacity factor of natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plants in the United States exceeded that of coal-fired power plants in 2015, according to a report ...

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the nation’s 99 operating nuclear reactors operated at an average capacity factor of 88% in 2017—the same as in 2016—despite market forces that ...

Two unique power plants with high-capacity factors, one using wind and the other using solar, are set to come online in the United States. The facilities are designed to maximize the value of their ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2015), pp. 253-260 (8 pages) ABSTRACT This workmodels capacity factor in terms of wind turbine operating characteristics, mean wind speed, and shape parameter of ...

CHARLESTON — Appalachian Power wants the West Virginia Public Service Commission to revisit its requirement that the state’s coal-fired plants operate at a capacity factor deemed uneconomic by ...

Dennis Higgins, of Otego, recently retired from the SUNY system where he taught mathematics and computer science. Central New York news has covered proposals for large solar farms in Cayuga County and ...

Stats from South Fork Wind’s first year undermine the Energy secretary’s assertions that offshore turbines don’t operate well in the winter. The United States’ first commercial-scale offshore wind ...