Hawaii utility Hawaiian Electric Co. has withdrawn its $1.2-billion plan to upgrade oil-fired power plants to burn natural gas after state regulators rejected its planned merger with Florida-based clean-energy firm NextEra Energy Inc.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's plan to cap, cover and monitor legacy power plant waste in three states is being challenged in court by environmental opponents.
The Tennessee Valley Authority ended the possibility of completing two partially built nuclear units in Alabama on May 5, when its board voted to declare as surplus and for sale the 1,600-acre Bellefonte site.
Hurricane Ike's devastation in 2008 to vulnerable Texas coastal areas, $29 billion in damage and a lingering economic drain of $142 billion, was the wake-up call for a defensive solution.
Dominion Virginia Power has progressed on its plan to build what will be the first wind research turbines in U.S. waters by breaking the project’s EPC contract into four smaller packages, utility officials said on April 7.