Courtesy BNFL Sellafield complex has some 200 building scheduled for decommissioning. Related Links: URS-Led Team Assumes Control Of U.K.s Sellafield Nuclear Site Owner Separates From Building Team Fees paid by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to the U.S.-led consortium managing decommissioning the U.K.'s giant Sellafield nuclear facility is not “a good deal” for British taxpayers, claims a new report by the influential parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. The average cost charged last year by the Nuclear Management Partners consortium for 16 executives reached $1.1 million with the highest earner costing the NDA $1.9 million. Nuclear Management Partners is effectively winding down remaining operations

Photo Courtesy of Duke Energy Duke Energy is planning to place its Crystal River nuclear plant in a "safe-storage configuration" until final decommissioning, which will take place in 40 to 60 years. Related Links: Cost and Schedule Explosion for Florida Nuclear Plant Repairs Crystal River Plant Fix Central to Duke CEO Ouster Florida, Progress Energy Reach Fix Plan for Crystal River Utility Duke Energy announced on Feb. 5 that it is canceling previous plans to repair its broken Crystal River nuclear plant in Citrus County, Fla. Instead, it will build a new natural-gas powerplant elsewhere in the state to replace

Courtesy of Kinder Morgan Canada Expanded pipeline diameter and parallel lines would enable Kinder Morgan to add more than a half-million barrels per day from Alberta to terminals along the Pacific coast. Related Links: $20-Billion Investment Will Move Oil-Sands Crude South California Fire Marshall Fines Kinder Morgan $500,000 in Walnut Creek Blast New, long-term contracts with oil- producing companies have prompted Kinder Morgan Canada to expand its proposed twinning of its 714-mile Trans Mountain pipeline between Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia, and increase by nearly seven times the number of tankers it serves at the port of Vancouver. Company President

Related Links: Feds Clear Path For Offshore Wind Offshore Support for Onshore Wind Website of Atlantic Wind Connection/NJ Energy Link The developer of what is touted as the first U.S. offshore wind energy transmission system, to run from Virginia to New York City, has picked Bechtel Group as EPC contractor for the first 189-mile, $1.8-billion leg off the New Jersey coast.Atlantic Wind Connection, a consortium led by internet giant Google, said construction would begin in early 2016 and be built in three phases over a decade. The first phase is to be in service in 2019. Alstom also was named

Mortenson Construction The 200 MW-Prairie Rose Wind Farm in Hardwick, Minn., was completed in November, 2012, just a month before a federal production tax credit was set to expire. The expiring PTC drove construction of a record 12,000 MW of wind farms in 2012. Related Links: Exelon Loses AWEA Membership Over Anti-PTC Stance Booms, Busts Stunt Growth Of Wind Power The wind power industry won a big victory in the "fiscal cliff" bill early this month: a one-year, $12-billion extension of the production tax credit. As important as the extension itself was a change in the extension’s language that allows

Related Links: East Africa Power Transmission Project Ready for Takeoff Efforts To Light Up Africa Gain Momentum South Korea's Daewoo International is expanding its reach in Africa against serious competition from Chinese firms currently dominating a wide spectrum of infrastructure development in the region.The company has signed an agreement with East Africa's leading power generator, Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) for the development of a $1.3-billion thermal power plant on the coast of Kenya.The 600-MW plant will be implemented under a joint venture with Daewoo holding a 60% interest. KenGen, a partially state-owned firm, will hold the remaining stake.The project,

Florida Power & Light on Dec. 19 will issue a request for proposals to develop one or both parts of a planned 700-mile, multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline, FPL said Dec. 10.

As Long Islanders went days and even weeks without power following Superstorm Sandy's Oct. 29 landfall, anger intensified at the Long Island Power Authority, or LIPA, for the utility's inept handling of power restoration to local homes and businesses.

A new study from the National Research Council warns that the electric grid in the United States is vulnerable to terrorist attacks and needs immediate attention.

Brazil’s equatorial latitude guarantees that the country is perpetually sun-drenched. The monthly average of sunlight hours is roughly double that in, for example, Germany.