Construction is set to begin this month on the world’s tallest solar tower—a 787-ft-high structure in Israel’s Negev desert that will supply 1% of the country’s power.
After nearly four months of grueling work 50 ft beneath a state beach in Rhode Island, crews have finished drilling a 2,250-ft tunnel for the conduit that will carry power from the 30-MW Block Island wind farm to a National Grid switching station in Narragansett, R.I.
Officially commemorating the 130th day under a new contracting team that is leading the $16-billion Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project, top leaders with Georgia Power and its contractors on May 3 used the milestone to assure craft workers of their commitment to future construction gains.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that a proposed permanent repository for spent
nuclear fuel and high-level radio-
active waste beneath Nevada’s Yucca Mountain will have minimal impacts on groundwater and surface groundwater discharges.
Empire State Connector Corp. has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to negotiate agreements with customers for electric transmission service on a high-voltage, direct-current line.
With support from AREVA, Waste Control Specialists (WCS) LLC on April 28 submitted a license application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a consolidated interim-storage facility in Andrews County, Texas.
On the edge of a quiet, wooded neighborhood in West Hartford, Conn., on April 18, executives at Legrand North America’s headquarters switched on a 500-kW fuel-cell array outside its decade-old manufacturing facility.
The backers of a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale region through New York state say they are “steadfastly committed” to building the pipeline, despite the April 22 decision by the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation to deny a permit for the project.
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