Over the past two decades, nuclear power plants have achieved increasingly higher capacity factors with the same or greater levels of safety. The average capacity factor for U.S. plants in operation ...

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 ...

How should investors think about factor capacity? It’s a top-of-mind question for asset owners today, so II asked guest writer Andrew Ang, PhD, Head of Factor Investing Strategies at BlackRock for his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The average capacity factor of the nine nuclear power units at the Qinshan nuclear power base in East China's Zhejiang Province reached 96.8 percent in 2023, the Global Times learned from China ...

Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has exploded over the past few years. From nearly nothing in the late 2000s, the U.S. now has more than 10 GW of utility-scale solar PV in operation ...

Entergy’s Grand Gulf 1—the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the U.S.—has thrived for four decades by cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, achieving record-breaking performance ...