power & industrial news archive
(2006)
DOE Funds Near-Zero Coal Emission Power Projects
The U.S. Dept. of Energy announced on Dec. 27 the selection of five projects totaling nearly $12 million for improving near-zero emission, coal-based power generation technologies.
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12/23/2006 UK Government Approves Wind Farm

12/18/2006 Mississippi To Host New U.S. Reserve

12/11/2006 Nation's Largest Cement Plant Taking Shape in Missouri

12/04/2006 Coal Steps Forward in U.K. With 3,850 MW of Plans

11/20/2006 $25-Billion Program Generates Controversy

11/15/2006 GE and Hitachi Plan Alliance for Nuke-based Global Market

11/06/2006 $5.3 Billion in Contracts for U.K. Electricity Grid Work

10/30/2006 Labor Squeeze Hits Energy

10/23/2006 Electric Reliability Study Sees Darkening Picture Ahead

10/16/2006 Court Says U.S. Must Pay Fuel Storage Costs

10/16/2006 Smart Irrigation Will Be Required in California in 2012

10/02/2006 Upgrade Plans Flow While Oil Prices Ebb

09/28/2006 In Ecuador, Breakthrough On Hydroelectric Project

09/23/2006 DOT to BP: Reopen TAPS

 

 

09/05/2006 French Commit $4.2 Billion for New Pressurized Reactor

09/04/2006 California Extends Rebate Plan to Municipal Utilities

08/31/2006 New NRC Chairman Foresees Applications For Up To 27 New Reactors

08/28/2006 Electric Projects Get a Boost From Report, Policy Change

08/25/2006 Northeastern States Take Modest Step To Cut Greenhouse Gasses

08/14/2006 BP Closes Prudhoe Over Corroded Pipes Plan

08/14/2006 CB&I Lands $1-Billion Contract for Texas LNG Terminal

08/14/2006 High and Deep Andean Tunnel Tests a Contractor's Mettle

08/11/2006 Louisiana Utility Plans $1.3-Billion Arkansas Powerplant

08/10/2006 Court Rejects Nevada's Challenge to Yucca Mountain Rail

08/07/2006 Developer's Plan Includes Building Two Nuclear Units

07/31/2006 Blackout's Trigger Remains A Mystery in New York City

07/17/2006 Giant TBM Will Cut Through Hard Rock to Niagara Falls

07/17/2006 Brazil Structures Fix Begins As Officials Seek Cause

07/17/2006 Uranium Facility One Step Closer

07/10/2006 Utilities Have Big Plans For Transmission Work

07/10/2006 TXU Orders Texas-Size Batch of Boilers and Emissions Units

07/03/2006 $5-billion Lignite Plant Proposed

07/03/2006 Arc-Gasification Plant Holds Promise for Power Production

07/03/2006 California Utilities Get Greener In Push for Renewable Power

06/19/2006 New Synfuels Pushes $5B Louisiana Plant

06/12/2006 Rural Alaskan Communities Are Becoming Empowered

06/05/2006 Pact Launches Reactor Project

05/02/2006 Sure You Drink Bottled Water,But Do You Know Why?

05/29/2006 Cooling Tower's Demise

05/29/2006 Finnish Unit Running Late After Nine Months of Work

05/29/2006 GE Gears Up To Meet Demand For New Plant Construction

05/22/2006 Commercial Wave-Energy System To Go off Portugal

05/01/2006 Bush Picks DOD Official to Chair NRC

05/01/2006 Submarine Cable Will Connect New York to New Power Pool

05/01/2006 Probe Finds Several Problems Caused Missouri Dike Failure

04/24/2006 U.K. Unveils Cleanup Program  And Mulls New Construction

04/17/2006 London Betting on Distributed Energy

04/17/2006 Romney Could Knock Wind Out of Nantucket Sound Project

04/03/2006 South Africa Will Be First To Build Pebble-Bed Reactor

03/20/2006 Biochemical Plant To Make Polymers Using Corn, Not Oil

03/20/2006 Clean-Coal Plant To Grow in West

02/13/2006 Arkansas Team to Study Biorefinery

02/06/2006 Loose Bolts at Connection Helped Bring Down Line

02/06/2006 $28-Million Fine for Davis-Besse

01/30/2006 Sunken Warships No Barrier to Cable under Pearl Harbor

01/23/2006 Public and Private Sectors Boost Wind, Solar Power

01/16/2006 $1-Billion Link Would Tap Solar Power for San Diego

01/09/2006 Ukraine Names U.S. Company To Establish Spent-Fuel

01/09/2006 New Device Cushions Unstable Generation Outputs

01/09/2006 Powerplant Builder Calpine Weighs Future in Bankruptcy

 


 

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