Turkish company Hakan Mining and Electricity Generation Industry Inc. has signed a power purchase and concessional agreement with Rwanda to design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer an 80-MW peat-to-power plant on the eastern African country’s marshland area of Gisagara, located on the border with Burundi.
Propelled by powerful and complementary forces, the U.S. renewables market is in the early stages of a multiyear period of sustained development and construction activity that may come to be viewed as the golden age of wind and solar power.
A combination of economics, technological advances and rapid change in the electricity business has halted a Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) project to construct a 400-MW pumped-storage hydroelectric project.
The budget proposal that President Obama sent to Congress on Feb. 9 confirmed the administration’s plans to terminate, nearly nine years after construction began, the multibillion-dollar Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to place a hold on implementing a rule to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, the agency’s administrator says.
The Obama administration wants to cut methane emissions from energy production on federally owned lands by requiring oil and natural-gas companies to limit flaring at wells and take steps to reduce leaks.
A Senate floor vote could come by Feb. 5 on a sweeping energy bill, which, if enacted, would be the first comprehensive energy legislation to make it through Congress since 2007.
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