Courtesy of EDF Planned new nuclear complex would be built at site of reactors built in previous decades (below). China’s state-owned nuclear industry has secured a major European foothold with deals announced on Oct. 21 for the first new plants in the U.K. in more than two decades.Construction of the two 1,660-MW European pressurized-reactor (EPR) water units, valued at more than $22 billion, is set to start next summer on the Hinkley Point C project, in Somerset, England, subject to final financing decisions next year by the French project developer EDF Group.The project would be adjacent to the site's existing
Related Links: Climate Change's Effects on Our Energy: An Interactive Map Price Tag for Repairs and Reconstruction from Colorado Floods Tops $1.3B Water Sector Takes the Brunt of Changing Weather President Obama's Speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University (Video) If governments and businesses ignored the realities of climate change on Port Fourchon, a spit of land on Louisiana's coast, the results could be disastrous.The port services as much as 90% of the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil industry, and when it isn't operational, at least a fifth of the nation's domestic oil supply is blocked from delivery. Without work
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants CB&I to enact measures to improve the workplace culture related to quality control at a Lake Charles, La., plant supplying wall modules to nuclear-power projects in Georgia and South Carolina.
Photo Courtesy of Verengo Solar installation companies are forming alliances with electricity retailers. Related Links: Solar Sees Growth But Clouds Loom California Plant To Double U.S. Solar Thermal Power Production Two years after a boom in multi-megawatt, utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects in the U.S., utilities, solar developers and contractors are gearing up for new sector growth. This time, they have their eyes on smaller but mass-volume rooftop solar installations for residential, commercial, industrial and institutional buildings.While some commercial, industrial and institutional rooftop projects are relatively large—ranging from 50 kW to 5 MW in capacity—the real volume part of the business
Related Links: Works Starts on Record-Scale Carbon-Capture Powerplant Carbon Capture on Fast Track in U.K. Thailand-based integrated engineering firm Toyo-Thai Corp., or TTCL, has launched the first commercial-scale application in the U.S. of a new carbon-capture technology for industrial emissions.TTCL broke ground on Sept. 30 on the $120-million SkyMine project in San Antonio. The plant will use an electrolytic system, developed by Skyonic Corp., to collect CO2, acid gases and heavy metals from emissions and mineralize them into stable solids.TTCL is expanding the Capitol SkyMine facility to collect flue gasses from the nearby Capitol Aggregates cement plant and convert them
Related Links: Solar Sees Growth But Clouds Loom California Plant To Double U.S. Solar Thermal Power Production Minneapolis-based energy provider Xcel Energy wants to triple large-scale solar-power generation in Colorado and significantly boost wind energy and electricity from the company's natural-gas-fueled plants.Xcel filed a report with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Sept. 9 requesting approval of the new plan, which includes an additional 450 MW of wind energy beyond the current 2,650 MW, another 170 MW of solar power above the 80 MW already being produced and an additional 317 MW of natural-gas-generated power. The plan includes the expected
Related Links: DOE Approves Plan to Export LNG from a Third Terminal Third Largest U.S. Utility Is Set To Spend Billions on Power and Gas Projects in Next Five Years U.S. LNG Boom Fueling Port Projects Construction on a $3.4-billion to $3.8-billion facility to liquefy and export natural gas could begin as early as 2014, according to Richmond, Va.-based utility Dominion Resources Inc.The U.S. Dept. of Energy on Sept. 11 gave conditional approval for Dominion’s Cove Point facilities in Calvert County, Md., to export 770 million cu ft of natural gas a day for 20 years to countries that don't
Related Links: DOE Approves Fourth LNG Export Facility Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources Inc., the third-largest power-utility owner in the U.S., will spend $4.6 billion on generation through 2018 and immediately begin converting the 227-MW Bremo coal-fired plant, located in central Virginia, to burn natural gas after receiving new state approval, company Chairman and CEO Thomas Farrell II told a Wall Street power-and-energy conference in New York City on Sept. 12.The company will complete the conversion of three coal-fired plants to burn biomass this year, he added at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference.Dominion faces a 3,800-MW generation gap over the next
Photo by AP Wideworld Power Down Fans at the World Cup basketball trials await illumination during the power outage. Related Links: Venezuelans Skeptical of Power Sabotage Claims Chavez Successor Must Pay Down Debt To Sustain Building Program Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, charging sabotage by his political opponents, is calling for a special security force to protect the country's electrical system after a failure on the power grid plunged more than 70% of the country into darkness this month.Opposition leaders, denying the allegation, said it was merely an effort by the government to shift blame for the incident, which happened shortly
Related Links: Obama Announces $7-Billion 'Power Africa' Plan Efforts To Light Up Africa Gain Momentum Ajoint venture of Spain's Grupo Clavijo and Germany's Schletter GmbH has won a contract to install photovoltaic racks for South Africa's 96-MW Jasper Solar Energy Project, which counts Google as one of its investors.It is Google's first renewable-energy play on the continent, where PV energy projects are emerging fast. A consortium, led by California-based SolarReserve, is developing the site at which Yingli solar panels are to be installed under an engineering, procurement and con-struction contract, led by Spain-based Iberdrola Engineering and South Africa's Group Five.
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