New York’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) is essential for the continued success of nuclear energy in the state, Nuclear Energy
Institute (NEI) President and CEO Maria Korsnick told the New York State Assembly this week.
Nuclear energy is also vital to meeting the state’s environmental goals,... Read More »
A delegation of Arkansas congressmen sent a letter this week to Secretary of the Department of Energy
Rick Perry, urging him to review the Clean Line project, a transmission line that runs through Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
The Arkansas Public Service Commission rejected the proposed pr... Read More »
LG&E and KU Energy’s Energy Storage Research and Demonstration site at E.W. Brown Station in Mercer County, Kentucky recently entered operation.
The company’s research and development team, in conjunction with the Electric Power Research Institute (ERPI), will develop, test and evaluate of e... Read More »
In the first few weeks of 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) certificated seven new natural gas pipeline projects totaling more than seven billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) before losing its quorum with the departure of one commissioner in February.
The commissioner’s depar... Read More »
DTE Energy recently issued a request for proposal to potentially purchase a natural gas power plant within Michigan’s Lower Peninsula with a generating capacity of up to 1,200 megawatts.
DTE is seeking to replace three coal-fired plants that are scheduled for retirement in 2023. Plants involve... Read More »
Wind generated more than 5.5 percent of the electricity used in the United States in 2016, along with five states now getting more than 20 percent of their energy from wind, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
More than $13.8 billion was invested in new turbines this p... Read More »
An Arkansas delegation introduced a bill last week to return the right to accept or reject federal electricity transmission projects on state or tribal lands to the affected state or tribal governments.
The Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Lands (APPROVAL) Act would require t... Read More »
BHP Billiton and PEMEX Exploration & Production Mexico (PEMEX) recently signed a contract to complete work on the Trion oil field recently discovered in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico offshore Mexico.
BHP Billiton will acquire a 60 percent participating interest in and operatorship of blocks AE-0... Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently approved the transfer of the operating license of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in New York State from Entergy Nuclear Operations to Exelon Generation Co.
The transfer will become effective March 31 and includes the spent fuel stora... Read More »
Increased electricity generation from renewable energy and natural gas has led to electricity prices below
the national average in Minnesota, according to findings from recent Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) reports.
BCSE’s 2017 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook and Minne... Read More »