Pumped-storage hydroelectricity, a mature technology first developed in the 1890s, is playing an increasingly important role in the current era as wind and solar power advance. ENR takes a look at some of the largest pumped-storage facilities in the world.
Hundreds of low-intensity earthquakes near the surface of a northern coastal region of the Netherlands have prompted the government to consider scaling back gas extraction, likely by several billion cubic meters a year.
Massachusetts and its largest electric utilities on March 28 rejected the $1.6-billion Northern Pass hydroelectric transmission project in favor of a Central Maine Power Co. proposal announced last month.
Funding for research in nuclear fusion was fully restored by Congress in the omnibus spending bill, reversing what supporters feared might be declining interest in the research.
Global design-build giant SNC-Lavalin Inc., Montreal, and leading Canadian cybersecurity researcher Carleton University have inked a new R&D deal to thwart attempts to hack power grids.
A second ethane cracker in the vast Marcellus and Utica shale basins took a major step forward with the March 12 announcement that Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical and its new partner, South Korea-based Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., have nearly secured 500 acres on the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio, for their planned petrochemical complex.
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