With the idea of converting the unfinished MOX facility into a manufacturing plant for nuclear weapons components, Energy Secretary Rick Perry on May 10 waived the requirement to use funds on construction and related support activities for the massively over-budget project at Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Ever-bigger turbines and floating platforms are helping to accelerate the growth of offshore wind power development in Europe, where immediate prospects remain strong, especially in the United Kingdom.
A solution for nuclear waste from power plants could finally be moving forward after the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly May 10 to authorize continued licensing of Yucca Mountain as well as interim waste storage.
Construction sector firms are helping corporations and utilities navigate low-cost clean-energy sources and distributed generation in a changing electricity marketplace.
The regional operator of the MidAtlantic power grid has said the closure of three nuclear units totaling 4,048 MW in Ohio and Pennsylvania will not threaten electric reliability, though some transmission projects may need to be accelerated to connect new supply.
While wind energy may still seem like a relatively new technology, it has matured to the point that consultants expect owners will invest about $2 billion a year to partially repower older turbines and make them more efficient.
The windswept fields and gusty greens of Ireland’s County Mayo are perfect places for a kite or a glider, or, in the case of energy partners E.ON and Ampyx Power, a large flying wing tethered to a drum, which will drive an experimental, portable power-generating turbine.
Efforts to nix South Carolina’s nuclear construction fee to ratepayers could imperil Dominion Energy’s pending offer to purchase one of the utility owners of the canceled V.C. Summer nuclear expansion project.