At least 300,000 people were without power along the US East Coast at mid-afternoon on Monday, Oct. 29 as rain and hurricane-force winds caused by Hurricane Sandy moved closer to shore causing outage totals to climb quickly.
Following a preliminary determination in March, the Dept. of Commerce has upheld a decision that duties should be imposed on Chinese solar photovoltaic cells and panels.
A huge plot of rural land in eastern New Mexico could soon become a major power hub for the U.S. if a start-up merchant transmission company is successful.
Executives at Ralls Corp., a Delaware-based company founded by Chinese nationals Duan Dawei and Wu Jialiang, say they disagree with President Barack Obama's recent decision to prohibit them from building four 10-MW wind farms near Boardman, Ore.
Fixing the damaged reinforced-concrete containment building at the long-idled Crystal River-3 nuclear unit in Florida will cost more than the $1.3 billion estimated by Progress Energy Florida and take longer than the utility's original 24- to 30-month estimate.
The Shaw Group's recent initial rejection of more than 200 steel embedments supplied to Georgia Power's $14-billion Plant Vogtle nuclear power project, sited near Waynesboro, Ga., is the latest in a series of quality-control lapses by various project suppliers.
EmberClear Corp., a Calgary, Alberta-based energy developer, said on Sept. 19 that it expects to begin construction on a 300-MW natural-gas-fired generation project west of Allentown, Pa.
Facing a challenging political landscape, solar firms continue to add unprecedented amounts of photovoltaic capacity to the nation's power supply at increasingly lower costs.
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