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FirstEnergy announces retirement of Board of Director
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) announced that Dr. Carol Cartwright will retire from the company's Board of Directors, effective May 20, after 22 years of service.
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Foster Wheeler to acquire Siemens emissions control business
Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group signed an asset purchase agreement with Siemens Energy (NYSE: SI) to acquire its Siemens Environmental Systems and...
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Planned coal-fired retirements increased by 5.4-GW
The number of planned coal-fired retirements has increased due to environmental regulations, weak electricity demand growth and competition from natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information...
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Susquehanna nuclear power plant Unit 2 taken offline for maintenance
PPL operators safely took Unit 2 offline at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant on Thursday.
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AMSC closing Wisc. facility, establishing wind manufacturing center
AMSC (Nasdaq: AMSC) said it was consolidating its U.S. grid manufacturing and product development program, and diversifying its international wind energy manufacturing operations.
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First Solar sets PV efficiency records
Tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), shows that First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) set a world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic...
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Start-up Wolf Point Engineers & Contractors names Bob Williams as VP
Robert L. Williams Jr. has joined start-up firm Wolf Point Engineers & Contractors as the company’s vice president of Sales and Marketing.
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Exelon buys natural gas supplier
Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) signed an agreement to purchase ETC ProLiance Energy, an Indianapolis-based natural gas supplier.
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GRDA to sign contract for natural gas turbine to replace coal-fired unit
On Friday, at least three members of the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA)’s Board of Directors will join Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to sign a contract with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems of...
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Citizens group wants North Carolina review of Duke gas-fired project
A citizens group, NC WARN, on March 10 asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission to open up a review of a Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) plan for a gas-fired power plant in South Carolina, even though the...
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Post-earthquake shift of dry-cask storage casks poses no significant risk,...
Dominion (NYSE:D) has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that although several dry cask storage canisters at the North Anna plant in Virginia shifted slightly after a 2011 earthquake, there's...
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Gas-fired facility at Xcel's Cherokee plant to be completed by end of 2015
Construction is well along on a new 569-MW gas-fired combined cycle (CC) project at the Cherokee coal plant site, said Public Service Co. of Colorado in a March 17 project update filed at the Colorado...
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La Paloma Energy Center scores legal victory for its Texas power project
The U.S. Environmental Appeals Board on March 14 rejected a Sierra Club petition for a review of an air permit issued to La Paloma Energy Center LLC for a gas-fired power project in Texas.
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Cornell University installs solar facility
Cornell University’s campus in Ithaca, N.Y. will soon have a 2-MW solar power facility.
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NRG, EME merger approved by FERC
NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE:NRG) and Edison Mission Energy (EME)have received approval from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the sale of EME’s assets to NRG.
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03/19 Henry Hub Average Natural Gas Spot Prices
The Henry Hub is the pricing point for natural gas futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
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Natural gas-fired combined cycle project gains EPC contractor
The Louisiana Energy and Power Authority (LEPA) signed an EPC contract with Robins & Morton to build a 64-MW combined cycle power plant in Morgan City, La.
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Small fire extinguished at Michigan nuclear power plant
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) responded to a small fire at the Fermi Nuclear Generation Plant in Michigan.
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Japan sending nuclear materials to the U.S.
Japan plans to send more than 700 pounds of weapons grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium to the U.S.
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Samsung, Pattern and Capital Power begin construction on $850M K2 wind power...
Construction at the K2 wind power project broke ground on Monday after securing $850 million in financing.
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