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New Jersey Herald
April 21, 2018
Ed Malley, a power plant redevelopment specialist with the Massachusetts-based TRC Companies, said there is no federal law to keep closed power plants from sitting cold and dark indefinitely. In deregulated power markets, like Pennsylvania, where companies can't pass the costs of decommissioning onÃâà...
Wicked Local Rockland
April 21, 2018
The only way the law can be complied with is by not closing NRC licensed (2032) Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in 2019. When the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant ... New York and Connecticut have passed laws to preserve their nuclear power plants, as clean air is important. New Jersey Sen. Cory BookerÃâà...
Bitcoinist
April 21, 2018
Australia's Hunter Energy has signed a contract with the IOT Group, a cryptocurrency mining firm, in an effort to reopen a coal power plant in the Hunter Valley Region of Australia. The move would sell electricity at wholesale costs to blockchain companies in an effort to encourage blockchain innovation inÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 21, 2018
Opponents of Entergy New Orleans' million peaking power plant in New Orleans East made it clear on Thursday: They are not going away. Opponents angrily denounced City Council members during their second-to-last meeting, chastising them for approving the power plant and displaying a giant checkÃâà...
CleanTechnica
April 21, 2018
London-based financial services giant HSBC has announced that it will cease financing all new coal-fired power plants around the world with three ... published an update to its energy policy on Friday which contained the new decision to cease financing new coal-fired power plants around the worldÃâà...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
April 21, 2018
The open house comes as TVA is finalizing its plan to close two coal ash storage ponds at the Cumberland power plant and build a new dry landfill and ... The change is part of a bigger effort to move to dry storage of CCRs at all of TVA's coal-fired power plants in the wake of the 2008 failure of a coal ashÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 21, 2018
As a bribery scandal was brewing in New York, a top energy lobbyist with ties to the Trump administration received $180,000 in payments in 2017 from a company behind a controversial natural gas-fired power plant in New York. The money was for lobbying federal regulators in Washington. Mike McKennaÃâà...
Power Technology
April 20, 2018
Bayat natural gas-fired power plant, which is planned to be constructed in Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan, will be the first gas-fired power plant in Afghanistan. Bayat Power, a subsidiary of Bayat Energy, is the project developer. Bayat Power signed a memorandum ofÃâà...
The Week Magazine
April 20, 2018
The United States still has the largest network of nuclear power plants in the world — bigger even than France, which gets about three-quarters of its power from ... As David Roberts carefully explains, renewables are not in a position right now to take up the slack when a nuclear power plant is retired.
POWER magazine
April 13, 2018
Debate continues over a proposed $1.5 billion power plant that would be built in North Bergen, New Jersey, and would send electricity to New York City. ... The company operates four power plants in California and has other U.S. plants operated by Tenaska, representing more than 57 GW of generation.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
April 13, 2018
Coal Dust Controversy Spreads At Large Southeast Wisconsin Power Plant ... Wisconsin's largest coal-fired power plant, We Energies' Oak Creek generating facility, is actually two plants in one. The second ... Nationwide, more than 200 similar power plants have shut down in recent years, or plan to do so.
Energy Business Review
April 13, 2018
The main fuel for the power plant is bituminous coal. According to the company website, the annual generation capacity of the plant was 32,547GWh in 2016. Taichung power station, Taiwan: With a capacity of 5.7GW, it is one of the world's biggest power plants. The coal fired power station is owned andÃâà...
StateImpact Pennsylvania
April 13, 2018
Losing millions of dollars a year at its power plants, Ohio-based FirstEnergy has asked the Trump administration for help. Though it may have the ... It's been used to keep plants running after hurricanes Katrina and Ike, and when a lightning strike knocked out a power plant last year. What's the emergencyÃâà...
JURIST
April 13, 2018
Nuclear power plants that wish to participate in the program will have to be certified by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. In order to be eligible to be granted the ZECs, the board must determine that the nuclear power plant meets the objectives of the act. The ZECs are stated as being similar toÃâà...
New Hampshire Public Radio
April 13, 2018
A pre-planned outage at Berlin's wood-burning power plant ends Saturday night. The 75-megawatt Burgess Biomass Plant has been down for routine maintenance since last weekend. Plant manager David Walker says they've been doing this twice a year since 2016. "Biomass plants will typically scheduleÃâà...
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
April 12, 2018
The press release reported that, according to Griffin, the new power plant could create an estimated 400 temporary construction jobs and 40-60 full time jobs, with ... The intent is to build a small 77 megawatt net "clean coal" generation plant at the site of the old FutureGen clean coal power plant facility.
Treehugger
April 12, 2018
It takes a lot of energy to "mine" bitcoins; as we noted earlier, computers have to run "proof of work algorithms." Bitcoins alone are estimated to consume 32 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, about as much as all of Denmark uses. And there are other Blockchain operations that also suck a lot of power.
CNET
April 11, 2018
That's the idea behind the Blockchain Application Centre -- an Aussie tech initiative that will see one of the country's now-shuttered coal-fired power plants reopened to provide cheap power for blockchain applications. It's the work of Australian tech company IOT Group, which has partnered with local powerÃâà...
Ventura County Star
April 1, 2018
After a three-and-a-half-year saga to defeat the Puente gas-fired power plant project, Oxnard won. Last week, California energy regulators approved a clean alternative to the polluting plant. It will improve energy reliability in the region and save money to boot. In doing so, they wiped out the need for bothÃâà...
Quartz
April 1, 2018
If built, that solar-power plant will be about 200 times the size of the biggest solar plant operating today. It would more than triple ... Though the country has talked about investing in clean energy for quite some time, it was only in 2017 that it began taking bids to build solar-power plants. And if any countryÃâà...
Salon
April 1, 2018
He announced the proposed changes March 1, a day before the deadline for power plant operators to release information about groundwater contamination that showed contamination near more than 70 coal-fired power plants and ash dumps from Alaska to Virginia. “The EPA is choosing to side withÃâà...
Daily Comet
April 1, 2018
Terrebonne Parish President Gordy Dove gave an overview of the Morgan City power plant review and several other ongoing parish projects during ... MISO operates a regional electrical grid system that now feeds into Houma, connecting various power plants including the one in Morgan City. The reviewÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 1, 2018
AKRON, Ohio — A subsidiary that runs FirstEnergy Corp.'s nuclear and coal-fired power plants has filed for bankruptcy after the utility said earlier that it planned to close its three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The move announced by FirstEnergy Solutions late Saturday signals the parentÃâà...
WSKG.org
April 1, 2018
STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA – Citing market challenges,” electric utility FirstEnergy says it will close three nuclear plants in Ohio and ... the grid operator for mid-Atlantic states, to provide “just and reasonable” compensation to its fleet of aging coal and nuclear power plants in order to keep them open.
WTOL.com
April 1, 2018
The subsidiary that owns the Perry Nuclear Power Plant and the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. FirstEnergy Solutions and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company filed for the bankruptcy late into the night on March 31st. The company announced earlierÃâà...
Valley morning Star
April 1, 2018
She said the images taken from power plants in Hidalgo County — Calpine Magic Valley, Merit Compressor Station and STEC Red Gate power plant — were “as bad as (she's) seen anywhere.” Representatives of the three companies did not respond to a request for comment. Since at least 2009, the TCEQÃâà...
News-Herald.com
March 29, 2018
The fight to save the Perry Nuclear Power Plant is not over yet, but it is adding a new sense of urgency. On March 28, FirstEnergy Solutions announced plans to decommission the three nuclear power plants it owns in Ohio and Pennsylvania over the course of the next few years. The Perry plant, located inÃâà...
The Hill
March 29, 2018
FirstEnergy Solutions, the FirstEnergy unit responsible for competitive generation, said it plans to close the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, in 2020; the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pa., in 2021; and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, in 2021. The plantsÃâà...
CNET
December 31, 1999
It's a dystopian nightmare for some, an obvious solution to a long-term problem for others: a decommissioned coal-fired power plant, kick-started and brought back online (partly) to mine cryptocurrency. That's the stated plan of two companies: IOT Group and Hunter Energy. IOT Group is the cryptocurrencyÃâà...
