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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. |
Latest Headlines
| 09/01/10 | Houston Firm Floats Power to Venezuela A Houston company has completed construction of a pair of power-generation barges that, when installed later this year in Venezuela, will become the world’s largest floating power-generation facility. |
| 09/01/10 | Nevada Geothermal Project Moves Forward Boise, Idaho-based U.S. Geothermal Inc. announced on Aug. 30 that it has signed a contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), McLean, Va., for engineering, procurement and construction for the first phase of a new geothermal powerplant at San Emidio in northwest Nevada. |
| 08/25/10 | Upstate New York Project Will Harness Flywheel Power When finished in 2011, a flat 3½ -acre piece of land with 20 shipping containers on concrete pads in upstate New York won’t hint at the complexity underneath: 200 flywheel storage devices spinning at Mach 2 to retain and release up to 20 MW of energy on a second-to-second basis. |
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08/11/10 U.S. Wind Power Surge Likely To Continue, Say Scientists
08/06/10 DOE Abandons FutureGen Plan
08/04/10 In U.K., Offshore Wind Power’s Rising Tide Tempered by Wave of Rising Costs
08/04/10 China’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm Comes Online
08/04/10 Offshore Wind Turbine Design Pushes Forward
08/04/10 U.S. and Chinese Firms Agree to Develop Tidal Power
08/04/10 Construction Under Way on Ferronickel Plant
08/04/10 Corps Green Lights $1.4-Billion Expansion Of Power Transmission Network in Maine
07/28/10 Power Sector Limbers Up
07/23/10 Senate Democrats to Pursue Scaled-Back Energy Bill
07/21/10 Southwest Solar Warming Up With Arizona Power Project
07/21/10 New $452-Million, 255-MW Plant Gets Started in California
07/14/10 Alyeska Pipeline CEO Retires Early in Wake of Spill
07/07/10 African Wind Project Poised To Begin
07/07/10 Finland, Sweden Approve New Plants
07/07/10 New Rhode Island Law Gives Planned Wind Farm A Big Boost To Gain Power-Purchase Contract
06/30/10 Shaky North American Market Dims Outlook
06/30/10 Low Demand Keeps Market ‘Dormant’
06/30/10 South Texas Powerplant Plan Both Praised and Damned
06/16/10 Major Sustainable Energy Initiative Announced
06/16/10 U.S. Energy Dept. Earmarks $760 Million To Fund New Geothermal and CO2-Capture Projects
06/16/10 Nigeria Secures Chinese Agreement for Refineries
06/09/10 Long Setup for Fast Implosion of Second-Largest Cooling Tower
06/09/10 Coal Power for Mississippi, But $2.9-Billion Cost Cap Set
06/02/10 Great Lakes Would Host First Freshwater Offshore Turbines
05/26/10 Areva Snags $2-Billion DOE Loan For Uranium-Enrichment Plant
05/19/10 Granted Modest Rate Hikes, Utilities Delay Construction
05/19/10 Upgrade Will Create Largest Single-Unit Nuke in the Country
05/12/10 Building Cape Wind Won’t Be a Breeze
05/12/10 Britain’s Huge Offshore Wind Farm Faces An Array of Challenges
05/12/10 TVA Mulls Strategies For 2020 Generation
05/12/10 China Pushes Wind Capacity Domestically and Abroad
05/05/10 'Cape Wind' Offshore Project Gets Go-Ahead, After Review
05/05/10 DOE Seeks $9 Billion More In Loan Authority for New Nukes
04/28/10 South Africa Tries New Approach, Based On an Old Fuel
04/28/10 Fusion Job-Design Award Is Europe’s Largest
04/28/10 U.K. Pushes Full-Scale CCS Forward
04/28/10 India’s Solar Program Poised for Growth, But a Few Clouds Remain
04/28/10 New Pipeline Doubles the Gas Transport Capacity in Brazil’s Southeastern Region
04/28/10 World’s Largest 100% Biomass Boiler Planned
04/28/10 DOE Grants Back $452 million In Energy-Efficiency Upgrades
04/21/10 French Firm Wins Two Large Peruvian Powerplant Contracts
04/21/10 Solar Project To Harness More of Sun’s Power in Hawaii
04/21/10 New Jersey Firm Seeking Power From Oregon’s Waves
04/21/10 Wind, Water Power For New York State
04/14/10 'Hot Cells' at DOE Hanford Site Set for Demo and Cold Burial
04/14/10 Ontario Approves Nearly $9 Billion in Renewables Projects
04/14/10 San Diego Utility Closing In on Sunrise Powerlink Approval
04/14/10 New Steel Mill Rises From Pipe Demand
04/14/10 After 2008 Failure, TVA Boosts Coal-Ash Sites at Powerplants
04/07/10 Developers Seek FERC Permit For Plains Wind Transmission
04/06/10 Obama’s Offshore Drilling Stance Wins Kudos From Oil and Gas Crowd
03/31/10 In South America, Trouble on the Line
03/31/10 Wind Turbines Coming on Two More Towers
03/31/10 British Columbia Plans for a Green Future
03/31/10 Underwater Line Is Wet Kiss for U.S. Supply
03/31/10 Hydropower Project Funding Completed
03/03/10 Canadian Utility Invests $3 Billion in Renewable Energy
03/03/10 $5 Million in DOE Scholarships For Nuclear Engineering Study
03/03/10 Europe To Link Offshore Power
03/03/10 Southern California Utility Joins ‘Smart’ Meter Movement
03/03/10 Interior Secretary Will Resolve Impasse by April Over Huge Massachusetts Offshore Wind Project
03/03/10 Brazil Backs $4-Billion Peruvian Hydropower Project
02/24/10 Nuclear Resurgence Poised for Liftoff
02/24/10 Proposed “Mini-Nukes” Could Be the Next Big Thing
02/22/10 Northwest Energy Report: Conservation Can Meet Most of Demand
02/17/10 Feds Back Big Construction Program With Big Bucks
02/10/10 U.K. Boosts Funding of Tidal And Wave Power Projects
01/25/10Solar Power Project Could Double as Dust Controller
02/10/10 Electricity Programs See Work Start to Surge
02/10/10 Caterpillar Takes Financial Stake In FutureGen Clean-Coal Project
02/03/10 Spanish Firm Bets $1 Billion on New Mexico Solar
01/27/10 Record Wind-Solar Complex Set To Be Built in Ontario by 2016
01/27/10 Feds and Contractor Share Blame for Afghan Plant Delays
01/25/10 Denied a Rate Increase, FPL Suspends Huge Building Plan
01/21/10 NRC Fines Babcock & Wilcox For Nuclear Mishap
01/13/10 More Cities, States Require Mandatory Benchmarking
01/07/10 D.C. Buildings to Measure Energy Use
01/06/10 U.S. To Push Deal on Huge 'Cape Wind' Project In Wake of Latest Challenge by Opponents
12/30/09 $3-Billion Wind Scheme To Link Hawaiian Islands.
12/16/09 845-MW Wind Farm To Be World's Largest
12/16/09 Geothermal Ready To Take Off
12/09/09 Offshore 'Oyster' Wave-Powered Generator Undergoing Testing in the U.K.
12/09/09 Papua New Guinea LNG Pipeline Project Secures Agreements
12/02/09 U.K. Awaiting Westinghouse, Areva Responses on Designs
12/02/09 Largest Persian Gulf Platforms Installed With Custom Care
12/01/09 $125 Million Grant Funds Sacramento Smart Grid Project
11/25/09 Dept. of Energy Awards $620 Million For ARRA 'Smart Grid' Pilot Projects
11/25/09 Small Businesses Get $18 Million In New DOE Research Funding
11/18/09 Grid Modernization Will Mean Construction
11/18/09 After Massive Nov. 10 Blackout, Brazil Is Still in the Dark Over Its True Cause
11/18/09 European Nuke Supplier Regroups for Sales
11/18/09 Huge Baltic Pipeline Project Expected To Launch Soon
11/11/09 Texas Utility Spooked By Ballooning Cost Estimate
11/11/09 Europe Plans To Tap Sahara Sun
11/11/09 NRG'S Financial Clout Gives New Life to Delaware Offshore Job
11/04/09 Projects Will Cement Region's Lead in Renewable Energy
10/27/09 DOE Awards $3.4 Billion for 'Smart Grid' Upgrades
10/21/09 DOE Robots Scrape Tanks for Nuclear Waste
10/21/09 Shin Kori Powerplants on Track
10/21/09 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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