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Power & Industrial
Breaking stories about power and industrial engineering and construction. Power coverage includes generation, transmission and distribution. Industrial coverage includes "clean" industries such as microelectronics, pharma and biotech as well as energy, manufacturing, process and basic metals industries. Coverage of both encompasses new developments, markets, trends, R&D, conferences, capital equipment and materials. |
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| 11/04/09 | Projects Will Cement Region's Lead in Renewable Energy A new power-transmission project on the Texas-New Mexico border will facilitate movement of power throughout the U.S. from booming alternative-energy developments in the Southwest. |
| 10/27/09 | DOE Awards $3.4 Billion for 'Smart Grid' Upgrades The Dept. of Energy has awarded $3.4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to modernize the electric power grid and boost its efficiency and reliability. |
| 10/21/09 | DOE Robots Scrape Tanks for Nuclear Waste As the U.S. Dept. of Energy and its contractors rev up construction of permanent repositories for nuclear wastes now lingering in aging, new technology is helping cleanup crews get at the nastiest and toughest-to-remove remnants. |
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10/21/09 Shin Kori Powerplants on Track10/21/09 AP1000 Reactor Design Issues Concern NRC
10/14/09 Nothing Concrete In Carbon Capture
10/14/09 Davis-Bacon Requirement Adds to Costs
10/14/09 Crossing Borders
10/14/09 DOE To Partner With Private Sector To Spur Renewables
10/14/09 Utility and University Team Up To Build Offshore Wind Turbines
10/07/09 Hawaii Will Require Utilities To Buy More Renewable Power
09/30/09 TVA Changes Coal-Ash Storage
09/23/09 Utility To Start First Sequestration Project in the U.S.
09/16/09 Geothermal Projects Not a Seismic Threat
09/16/09 Maryland Seeks Industry Options To Build Offshore Wind Projects
09/16/09 Major Hydropower Project is Progressing
09/09/09 Wide Swing in Crude Prices Curbs Project Development
09/09/09 Climate Change, Weak Economy Combine to Stymie Market
09/09/09 Controversial Geothermal Job Suspended for Drilling Problems
09/09/09 Utility Shrugs Off Lawsuit
09/09/09 Harnessing the Sun's Rays
09/09/09 Conservation Could Meet Up To 85% of Demand Growth
09/09/09 New Breed of Wind Turbines Tests the Waters
08/26/09 California's Largest Solar Farm Is Now Under Construction
08/26/09 Canadian Line Gets U.S. Pass
08/19/09 Brazil Will Move Power from Dams to City
08/12/09 TVA Opts for Dry Storage After Catastrophic Coal-Ash Spill
08/05/09 Coordinated Energy-Efficiency Strategy Would Spur Savings
08/05/09 Canadian Operator Seeks Expansion While Refurbishing
07/29/09 Intelligent Modeling Comes To Electrical Substation Design
07/29/09 Work Set To Begin on 1,000-Mile Canada-U.S. Pipeline Project
07/22/09 FutureGen Wins Second Chance
07/22/09 More Money for Smart Grid
07/15/09 U.S. Managers To Crack Market With Canadian Contractors
07/15/09 Remote Sites, Odd Regulations Pose India Development Issue
07/15/09 California Clean Coal Demo Project Secures $308-Million DOE Grant
07/15/09 Floating Nuclear Powerplant
07/01/09 Global Financial Collapse Stalls Growth in the Petroleum Sector
07/01/09 Firms Look to Renewables to Prop Up Lagging Power Market
07/01/09 House Approves Global-Warming Bill
07/01/09 Another One Bites the Dust As Mohave’s Clock Runs Out
06/25/09 Israel Seeks First LNG Terminal Builder
06/24/09 Greenfield Plant Planned for Former Enrichment Site
06/24/09 Western States Nix Interim Sites
06/24/09 NIST Study Boosts Smart Grid
06/17/09 FutureGen Project Gets Second Wind
06/17/09 Satellite To Beam Solar Energy
06/17/09 Babcock & Wilcox To Offer 125-MW Modular Reactor
06/17/09 Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016
06/15/09 Obama's Energy Chief Re-Starts Scrapped Clean Coal Experiment
06/10/09 Report Calls for California To Reduce Water Use To Protect Fish
06/03/09 PacifiCorp Files for Nevada Permit
06/03/09 Geothermal 'Wildcatter' To Tap Texas Coast
06/03/09 Stimulus Funds Target Geothermal and Solar Energy
05/27/09 Distributed Generation: Everybody’s in Business
05/27/09 Smart Grid Will Give Electric System a Brain
05/27/09 New Offshore Platform Pushes Technologies to Their Limit
05/20/09 French Nuclear Power: On the Threshold of Rebirth
05/20/09 Tax Breaks To Boost Turbine Spending
05/20/09 U.S. Pushes Standards, Funds Development for Smart Grid
05/20/09 Hawaii Aims To Be A Model With Cable-Linked Projects
05/13/09 Photovoltaic Expansion Will Be North America’s Largest
05/13/09 Stimulus Set To Push 7,400 MW Into Construction by End of 2010
05/06/09 Large-Scale Solar Stations To Help Meet California Goal
04/15/09 DOE Launches Initiative To Boost Efficiency of Commercial Buildings
04/08/09 Stimulus: Market Is Hopeful, But Awaiting Definition
04/01/09 DOE Rolls Out $9.2 Billion From Economic-Stimulus Statute
04/01/09 Utilities Repower Aging Coal Plants To Burn Biomass
03/11/09 The U.K. and U.S Are Inching Toward a New Era of Nukes
03/04/09 GE Energy and Mitsubishi Team To Develop Next-Gen Turbines
03/04/09 Feds Ease Bidding Rules For Planned Power Lines
02/25/09 Billions in Transmission Work From State, Federal Initiatives
02/25/09 Carbon Capture Goes Commercial
02/18/09 Contractors Don’t Expect Quick Impact on Work
02/11/09 Creative Pricing by Florida Utility Hopes To Expand Solar Market
02/04/09 Parsons Picked To Expand Plant To Produce New Enriched Fuel
01/27/09 Tide Could Supply 5% of U.K. Power, But Barrage Could Damage Environment
01/21/09 International Program Aims To Develop Energy Supply Without Limit
01/21/09 The Promise: Energy Without End or Impact
01/07/09 Shaw Group Signs EPC Contract For Florida Nuclear Powerplants
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