U.S.
based giant First Solar also said it will spend $1.1 billion to build its
fifth domestic component factory in Louisiana, as India and China-based manufacturers plan new American capacity boosts
A condominium and hotel project under construction at the base area of Keystone Resort in Summit County, Colo., is the first major project at the resort in 20 years.
Project is also core to separate lawsuit by 16 plaintiffs, aged five to 22, against Montana for violating state constitution in promoting fossil fuel development
Work is set to resume on 175-MW Yellowstone County project, with Burns & McDonnell as EPC contractor, after new court ruling that followed revised state law banning regulators from weighing greenhouse gas emissions in permit reviews of new energy projects.
To operate underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for waste storage, US Energy Dept. must update public on efforts to identify another nuclear repository site out of state.
Coolidge gas power plant project, delayed one year by community legal action over air pollution impacts, now is set to double in capacity after a new settlement—but that is a decrease from the originally proposed 820-MW expansion that a Kiewit Corp. unit was hired to build.