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LCG, May 1, 2025--Holtec International (Holtec) announced the signing on April 29 of a strategic cooperation agreement with the State of Utah and Hi Tech Solutions, a leading nuclear services provider based in Kennewick, Washington, to collaborate in the deployment of Holtec's SMR-300s (small modular reactor) in Utah and the broader Mountain West region. Hi Tech will play a leading role in the project development and workforce training to support the rise of new nuclear power generation in the region.
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LCG, April 29, 2025--Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) today outlining the state’s plans to administer programs related to carbon storage wells, known as Class VI wells. The MOA signing is a required step in the RRC’s application to be granted authority to permit Class VI wells in the state of Texas. EPA is currently preparing a proposed approval of RRC’s primacy application.
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Industry News
Rollcast Announces Financial Closing for Georgia Biomass Project
LCG, October 22, 2010--Rollcast Energy, Inc. ("Rollcast") yesterday announced the closing of non-recourse, project financing for Rollcast's first greenfield biomass power project, Piedmont Green Power, LLC. The electricity generated by the 53.5-MW power plant will be purchased by Georgia Power under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). The project site is approximately 70 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Piedmont Green Power is scheduled to commence operations by the fourth quarter of 2012, and the Project's EPC contractor will be released to start construction immediately. Rollcast developed the project and will be manage the facility.
The power plant will consume approximately 500,000 tons of woody biomass per year, all of it sourced from the surrounding area.
The positive step forward for this biomass project is somewhat of a national anomaly, given the rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) earlier this year that have stalled many biomass power projects. Contrary to past understandings that biomass project are carbon neutral, the EPA's Tailoring Rule regulates emissions from the combustion of biomass the same as emissions from the combustion of fossil fuel. With the EPA's new position, biomass power plants are not deemed carbon neutral, placing new risk on biomass power plants for carbon emissions. Moreover, the EPA's proposed Industrial Boiler MACT rule created additional problems for biomass power producers earlier this year by setting emission limits that will be difficult if not impossible to achieve. The EPA may issue changes more favorable to biomass to both rules in early 2011.
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