Independent power producer SolarAfrica Energy has begun construction on its first utility-scale solar installation, located in South Africa's Northern Cape. Phase 1 of the SunCentral project will have about 342 MW in generating capacity.
Incident probe at 806-MW Vineyard Wind, a utility scale project near Nantucket Island, is underway after blade break caused floating debris and fiberglass shards to reach beaches, with new concern raised on July 18 about remaining blade integrity.
On a Saturday morning in the summer of 1966, Vinton Bacon, general superintendent of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, pulled his car into a service station near his suburban home for gas and an oil check. The attendant found four sticks of dynamite wired to the car’s engine. Only a faulty connection prevented them from exploding.