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Georgia Power and SCANA Corp. on April 28 separately announced that each had extended their “interim assessment agreements” with contractor Westinghouse Electric Co. (WEC) to keep construction progressing on two separate nuclear expansion projects, while the contractor proceeds with its bankruptcy plan.

The Trump administration approved its first liquefied-natural-gas terminal on April 25.

NRG Energy expects to begin construction in the fall on about 110 MW of solar generation on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Facility would move stranded natural gas to Asian markets.

The New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation on April 7 denied National Fuel Gas Co. a permit for a natural-gas pipeline.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to examine whether subsidies, wholesale markets or other incentives may be skewing electric markets to favor one electricity power source over another or make the electric grid less resilient.