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Kansas City Power & Light continues shift away from coal power with upcoming closure of six power units
The Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) announced a timeline this week for the closure of five coal and one natural gas-based power generators at three facilities, continuing a shift to more renewable means of energy. All six units are relics of the 1960s, in operation at the Montrose, Lak... Read More »Andrew Cuomo
New York Gov. Cuomo announces clean energy jobs initiative
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced the Clean Climate Careers initiative, which includes $1.5 billion for renewable energy projects, workforce training for careers in clean energy, and the creation of an environmental justice working group. The announcement followed an executive order ... Read More »Energy Department approves additional liquefied natural gas exports from offshore Louisiana project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it has approved a long-term application to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Delfin’s proposed offshore Louisiana floating LNG terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. The project, Delfin LNG, LLC, will be able to export 1.8 billion cu... Read More »Rocky Mountain Power launches new online power outage map
Rocky Mountain Power recently launched an online outage map that shows disruptions in power for its customers in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. The map shows a red dot in the approximate location of a power outage. The size of the dot will correlate to the size of the outage and will show outages of... Read More »Thomas Zacharia
Zacharia named director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry recently announced that Thomas Zacharia was appointed as the new Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The UT-Battelle Board of Governors unanimously selected Zacharia to succeed Thom Mason as director and wil... Read More »Joseph Dominguez