The flood of cheap Marcellus Shale gas driving massive construction of new natural gas power generation capacity could wreak havoc in the PJM power market, Moody’s Investors Service suggests in a new report. Two of the nation’s largest power markets, Texas and California, already pose a “distressed environment” for unregulated power companies owing to declining […]

Dominion Resources, one of the nation’s largest power generators, has changed its name and the names of key subsidiaries, including Dominion Virginia Power. The Richmond, Va.–headquartered company that has a power portfolio of 26.2 GW, sizable transmission assets, as well as natural gas storage systems and pipelines, will now be known as “Dominion Energy.” The […]

President Trump on Monday made two nominations to fill vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which, if confirmed, would restore the agency’s quorum and ability to take action. Neither nominee was a surprise. Both names had long circulated in Washington. The mystery was why it took so long—three months—for the administration to fill […]

Coal Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job D.C. Circuit Halts Clean Power Plan, Mercury Rule Litigation In two separate actions over the past 24 hours, the D.C. Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) request to suspend cases challenging the Clean Power Plan and the Mercury and Air […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Vogtle, V.C. Summer Project Owners Buy More Time to Mull Fate of Nuclear Units The owners of the Vogtle and V.C. Summer nuclear expansions separately secured a few more weeks to allow work to continue onsite at each project […]

  Solar Plus Storage Distributed Energy Resource System Project to Power Oceanic Time Warner Telecom Facility on Island of Hawaii MILWAUKEE, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — EnSync, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ESNC), dba EnSync Energy Systems, a leading developer of innovative distributed energy resource (DER) systems and internet of energy (IOE) control platforms for the utility, commercial, […]

Valmet Oyj’s trade press release on May 4, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. EET  Valmet’s Advanced Process Control (APC) application, Valmet DNA FBB Combustion Manager, has improved combustion for the biomass boiler at WestRock‘s Covington mill in Virginia, USA. By optimizing combustion, the mill has been able to maximize and increase the main steam output of […]

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 4 May 2017 at 12 noon EET The technology group Wärtsilä will supply 73 MW capacity equipment for an extension to a power plant owned by Yesilyurt Enerji Elektrik Uretim A.S, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Turkey.  The equipment will be delivered during the coming months, and the extended power […]

Fast, trailer-mounted solutions will bring 200 megawatts (MW) of power, the equivalent needed for up to an additional 15% of Angola’s population Includes GE’s Asset Performance Management software solutions from Predix GE Power for Angola program to provide technology and services for additional power to grid May 02, 2017 07:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time LUANDA, […]

Coal and nuclear energy sources reduced to near-complete standby Berlin, May 3, 2017: A combination of breezy and sunny weather in the north and warm weather in the south saw Germany’s May 1 holiday weekend powered almost exclusively by renewable resources, according to the Agora Energiewende Initiative. Most of Germany’s coal-fired power stations were not […]