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Oklahoma natural gas-fired power plant to break ground in 2014

The 103 MW Charles D. Lamb Energy Center should be completed by spring 2015

Survey: Industry optimistic on U.S. reaching energy independence

According to the survey, 62 percent of respondents believe the U.S. can achieve energy independence by 2030

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries closes on Pratt & Whitney Power System

The acquired company will now be known as PW Power Systems. The company will be headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

MDU Resources names business development VP

MDU Resources invested more than $900 million last year and plans to invest another $3.9 billion, exclusive of acquisition opportunities, over the ...

Energy sector welcomes confirmation of Ernest Moniz to lead DOE

Energy industry trade groups are reacting to the confirmation of Ernest Moniz to lead the Department of Energy (DOE) with generally positive statem...

Perry Nuclear Power Plant returns to service after planned outage

The 1,268 MW power plant is currently operating at 21 percent power

California Sentinel Energy Project goes online

The CPV Sentinel Energy Project is located near Desert Hot Springs, amidst wind farms producing 600 MW of electricity, five miles northwest of Palm...

AltaGas buys 507 MW Blythe Energy Center

The Blythe Energy Center is contracted under a power purchase agreement through to July 2020 with Southern California Edison

NRG agrees to retire coal-fired plant earlier than expected after settlement

The pair of power generation units at the Portland Generating Station, which have a combined capacity of more than 400 MW, will stop burning coal b...

Alstom to renovate hydropower generators in Austria

This project, at the Kaprun Hauptstufe hydropower plant in Austria, will increase the output of the M3 and M4 generators, with commissioning schedu...

NEI: Nuclear power sector poised to rebound along with economy

Fertel listed milestones achieved by those in the industry, including the pouring of concrete basemats for new reactors at facilities in South Caro...

Europe can save $58 billion by deploying renewable energy

If installations were built at the sites in Europe that offer the highest power yields, some $58 billion of investment in renewables could be saved...

Exelon nuclear power plant to use Transnuclear fuel storage casks

The first four canisters will be delivered in 2014, with the remaining four delivered in 2015

PJM estimates enough power to meet summer demand

To meet demand, PJM has available 186,884 MW of installed power generation capacity and 11,175 MW of demand response and energy efficiency

Georgia Power adds 53 MW of biomass capacity from Piedmont Green Power

The biomass generation process at Piedmont Green Power will create energy using forestry byproducts that would otherwise end up in landfills or be ...

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Electric Light & Power

March 2013
Volume 91, Issue 2
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