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Hampton Roads may have space for Baltimore coal exports
03/31/2024

Hampton Roads may have space for Baltimore coal exports

Terminals in Hampton Roads, Virginia, may have some available capacity to take rerouted coal shipments from Baltimore, Maryland, despite increasing exports from a year earlier for the seventh consecutive month in February.

CSX, NS prepare for rerouting traffic at Baltimore port
03/31/2024

CSX, NS prepare for rerouting traffic at Baltimore port

CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway are working with customers, the Port of Baltimore and state officials to respond to shipment delays as a result of Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the port’s closure. 

Rolling Blackouts by 2026
03/31/2024

Rolling Blackouts by 2026

The global economy is going to be hit with a surge in electricity demand. Elon Musk has said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) will boost demand so much that there will be rolling blackouts in the United States by 2026. The International Energy Agency (IEA) wrote: “Elec...

FERC Reaffirms Decision That Could Hurt Reliability"Taken together, wind, solar, and battery storage are far more likely...
03/31/2024

FERC Reaffirms Decision That Could Hurt Reliability
"Taken together, wind, solar, and battery storage are far more likely to worsen reliability than improve it. "

Interconnection of these energy sources poses unique challenges for the grid.

MISO seeks FERC approval for new capacity accreditation process to bolster grid reliability "Intermittent generation — s...
03/31/2024

MISO seeks FERC approval for new capacity accreditation process to bolster grid reliability
"Intermittent generation — such as wind and solar — provides MISO with less and less reliability as more comes online because it lacks key attributes provided by dispatchable resources."

“The changing resource mix combined with extreme weather and shifting load profiles have created what the NERC has characterized as a ‘hyper-complex risk environment,’” MISO said.

FRA more than $2.4 Billion in CRISI grant funding available for improving America’s freight and intercity passenger rail...
03/31/2024

FRA more than $2.4 Billion in CRISI grant funding available for improving America’s freight and intercity passenger rail network

Daily news coverage keeps the transportation industry up to date with maritime, ports and Terminal, rail, road and air cargo based transportation information,news and insights.

Baltimore port closure could dent US coal export volumes, EIA
03/31/2024

Baltimore port closure could dent US coal export volumes, EIA

BENGALURU: Halted shipping traffic from the Port of Baltimore, the second-largest US hub for coal exports, will slow...

Why a town on the front line of America's energy transition isn't letting go of coal
03/31/2024

Why a town on the front line of America's energy transition isn't letting go of coal

Kemmerer, Wyo., is on the front line of America's energy transition, with its coal plant slated to close and a nuclear plant in the works. But some think the rush to quit fossil fuels is impractical.

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