Delays mount for PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid, to integrate deluge of proposed solar and other clean energy projects, as it revamps a process suited to large fossil fuel power plants.
Brookfield Asset Management is set to add 20 GW of solar and battery storage project potential in buying Virginia-based Urban Grid, but sector faces growing hurdles in grid connectivity and supply chain.
Multi-faceted federal effort includes largest yet U.S. auction of offshore wind project lease tracts, in metro New York City area, and more renewables built on public lands.
Contractor Ferrovial used two 500-ton crawler cranes to raise and rotate six vertically cast floater elements for transport and assembly to support the 2-MW turbine in 85 ft of water.
Bechtel, Webuild, Strabag and Dragados are among bidders for the $1.3B, 1.5-GW Coire Glas project in Scotland, but project revenue uncertainties remain.
GAO analysis says 11 large-scale projects at coal-fired power plants and industrial sites were funded; department counters that a new clean energy demo program beefed up with with infrastructure act funds will fix cost management.
The firm is valued at $1.9B in link with NASDAQ-traded investor, but Fluor stays a majority stakeholder and exclusive engineer-builder of planned small reactors for global clients.
Utility stops construction following Nov. 2 voter rejection of the transmission corridor, but awaits a court ruling to enjoin the vote. A state agency on Nov. 23 suspended a project environmental permit that also halts work.
Bechtel will lead EPC work on a 345-MW reactor at Kemmerer site for Bill Gates-founded firm TerraPower; Southern Co. also announces demonstration project with the developer in Idaho.