The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently issued its annual assessments of operational performance for 2017 to the nation’s 99 operating commercial nuclear power plants.
All but three plants scored in the two highest performance categories. Of the 96 highest-performing reactors, 83 met a... Read More »
Twenty-three senators called on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for a 60-day extension of the comment period for Draft Proposed Program of the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2019-2024 on Monday.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natur... Read More »
Cheniere Energy Inc. sent on Monday its first shipment of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India through the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana.
Cheniere, which is based in Houston, signed a 20-year deal with GAIL India Ltd., to supply the company 3.5 million metric tons of LNG/annually. Th... Read More »
Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories agreed recently to collaborate on research into new ways to use coal to create high-value products.
Representatives of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) at NETL’s Pittsburgh site si... Read More »
Florida Power and Light (FPL) has officially selected four locations for a series of new solar energy plants to be built across the state by mid-2019.
The new plants will be located in St. Lucie County, Miami-Dade County, Volusia County and Columbia County. Each will boast 74.5-megawatt capaciti... Read More »
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently launched in the United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah, a Regional Training Course on pressurized water reactors (PWRs).
The program was the first such Regional Training Course in the Middle East and included 20 p... Read More »
As coal power producers comply with federal Obama-era groundwater monitoring rules at coal ash disposal sites, the Trump administration has announced plans to let states regulate these facilities much like municipal trash landfills.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a se... Read More »
Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) recently announced that its dry storage projects for coal combustion residuals are on track for completion next year.
The projects will eliminate the use of ash ponds and other storage impoundments at their four coal-f... Read More »
Although the U.S. electric power sector is capable of handling cyber threats, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) CEO Jim Matheson recently testified before a Senate panel that the federal government should invest more in research and development for small- and mid-sized utilitie... Read More »
As of 8 a.m. on Sunday, March 4, crews have restored power to approximately 137,000 of the 191,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers in Pennsylvania impacted by Friday’s Winter Storm Riley.
The eastern part of PPL’s service area was the most severely impacted and contains the majority of the r... Read More »