Power & Industrial - Articles - Page 153

Electric Utilities Recover from Record-Breaking Outages

Mary B. Powers

September 19, 2017

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Relying on past lessons, storm hardening and 60,000 people FPL restores power to almost all.

Nuclear Power

How Bechtel Limits Risk on Possible Big Plant-Vogtle Role

Georgia Power's new prime contractor on the costly project has a carefully outlined role

Richard Korman

September 13, 2017

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Bechtel is a key part of Georgia Power's has created a plan to save its troubled, billions-over-budget Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project.

Citing Westinghouse Failure, Duke Cancels Nuclear Plans

Pam Radtke Russell

September 13, 2017

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After spending more than $1.5 billion for construction and operating licenses for four new AP1000 nuclear plants in Florida and North Carolina, Duke Energy announced it will end activity on those plants and, at least in Florida, will pursue more solar power.

Oroville Spillway Failure Prompts Review of 93 Dams

JT Long

September 13, 2017

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If initial lessons included in an interim status report on the cause of February’s failure of the main spillway at California’s Oroville Dam are heeded, hundreds of U.S. dams more than 50 years old may have to be re-examined and upgraded.

Dominion Energy Eyes $2B Hydroelelctric Storage Project in Va.

Mary B. Powers

September 13, 2017

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Dominion Energy is set to build a $2-billion pumped hydroelectric storage unit in southwest Virginia to accommodate 240 MW of solar generation it plans to add every year through 2032, the company confirmed.

Disaster Recovery

Post-Irma, Crews Push to Get Power On and Water Running

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

September 13, 2017

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Edison Electric Institute estimates "an army" of 50,000 workers from across North America are set to help restore the state's grid.

The American Energy Infrastructure

Will Proposed PURPA Changes Affect Your Renewable-Energy Facilities?

Glenn Benson Arvin Ganesan

August 31, 2017

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Change may be coming in one of the ways distributed energy facilities get financed and built in the US.

Pipeline Emissions Ruling Sets New Bar for FERC Approvals

Mary B. Powers

August 30, 2017

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Pipeline-sector observers are watching whether a U.S. appellate court ruling, which last month canceled federal approval of a $3.2-billion Florida natural-gas line and two others for not adequately considering the projects’ contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions, could affect approvals of other planned projects.

P3 Container-Yard Project Breaks Ground in Houston

Louise Poirier

August 30, 2017

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Crews broke ground on Aug. 16 on a new empty-container yard at the Port of Houston, the United States’ largest port for foreign, waterborne tonnage.

RGGI Proposes Ambitious Carbon Targets for 2030

Pam Hunter McFarland

August 30, 2017

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Proposed stringent emission-reduction targets through 2030 in the nation’s only interstate cap-and-trade program will continue the already well-established market shift toward renewable and efficient power-generation construction projects, industry analysts say.