http://www.powermag.com POWER Mag en-us 2013 Sun, 19 May 2013 0:12:00 EDT A final rule issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday orders the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) to develop, by the end of the year, reliability standards that address the impact of geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) on the nation’s bulk power system. Those standards will likely require generators and grid operators to develop and implement operational procedures and conduct continuing assessments on equipment to mitigate GMD effects.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5626.html Fri, 17 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Freeport LNG Expansion LP and FLNG Liquefaction LLC received conditional authorization on May 17 to export U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Freeport LNG Terminal on Quintana Island, Texas, making it the second project to receive federal approval.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5628.html Fri, 17 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Plans to build an 873-MW natural gas peaking facility at FirstEnergy's Eastlake Plant in Ohio have been frozen on uncertainties that affect project financing—including the federal "sequester"—its developers FirstEnergy and American Municipal Power (AMP) said last week.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5604.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Sempra U.S. Gas & Power dedicated the first 150-MW phase of the 4,000-acre Mesquite Solar facility in Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday. Potential to build out up to 700 MW of nameplate capacity could make the photovoltaic (PV) complex one of the biggest in the U.S.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5605.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT In a report released on Monday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) presents data on energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for each state by year, fuel, sector, and other breakouts for the years 2000 through 2010.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5606.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT A three-judge panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) on Tuesday ruled that Southern California Edison (SCE) cannot restart Unit 2 of its shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) until the NRC holds a formal license amendment proceeding with full public participation.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5608.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Westinghouse and China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. (SNPTC) have teamed to further develop a supply chain within China for power plant equipment and components to be used in global AP1000 nuclear power plants.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5609.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT A software algorithm developed by researchers from North Carolina State University promises to detect and isolate cyber attacks on networked control systems.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5610.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT A three-judge panel at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that alleges carbon dioxide emissions by several power companies contributed to global warming that intensified Hurricane Katrina.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5613.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT In an apparent legal victory for developers of new nuclear power plants in the U.S., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied complaints from environmental groups that federal approval of Southern Co.’s two new reactors under construction in Georgia did not address lessons learned from the Fukushima accident.... http://www.powermag.com/news/5614.html Thu, 16 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT