Without help from the state or federal governments, the money-losing Three Mile Island will join a growing list of nuclear plants slated for closure since 2013.
Officials in Maryland paved the way last week for what they are calling the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind projects. The Maryland Public Service Commission granted offshore wind renewable energy credits, otherwise known as ORECs, to two proposed wind projects with a combined value of $2.09 billion.
Despite the Trump Administration's apparent focus on fossil fuel development, renewable energy is set to grow with standards in place in more than 29 states, including many with carve outs for offshore wind.
Officials at BP’s U.S. Lower 48 business unit say they will relocate the multinational energy company’s headquarters to Denver from Houston, with the move expected to be complete in early 2018.
Located at the Hialeah Rail Yard in Miami-Dade County, this project involved engineering, procurement and construction of a 100,000-gallon-per-day liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.
Located on the South Shore of Staten Island, the 68,000-sq-ft Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground is a two-story elementary school with the capacity to seat 444 students from pre-kindergarten through the fifth grade.
Developers are looking to replace aging, coal-fired unit with efficient, cleaner gas-fired plants. In a market in which many plants are built on spec, each new project threatens the economics of all plants.
Believed to be the largest greenfield job in Latin America as well as the biggest private-sector investment in Mexico, the $5.2-billion Etileno XXI petrochemical complex was designed to produce more than 1 million tons per year of polyethylene resins to boost Mexico’s global trade balance and its tax revenue from thermoplastics.