Company Unites Energy Supply and Services Businesses into One Organization in the Region June 14, 2016 03:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global energy and services provider ENGIE has launched the ENGIE brand for its operations in the United States and Canada, reflecting a new strategic direction and regional organization. ENGIE is the succeeding brand […]

ABB has inaugurated a new customer drives test laboratory at its factory in Helsinki, Finland. The facility now enables customers to have their own motors tested with ABB’s variable-speed drives (VSDs) to verify their impact on performance and energy consumption. ABB’s new customer drives test laboratory has been established to enable customers to evaluate the […]

  Contract covers inspections from manufacturing, transport, installation and commissioning of wind farm Project follows successful partnership of initial design assessment phase of wind farm Arkona marks 14th German offshore wind farm to be supported by DNV GL certification services   Hamburg, Germany –13th June 2016, E.ON has awarded the project certification contract for the new Arkona […]

A Minnesota law that bans power imports from new out-of-state coal-fired power plants is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has deemed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on June 15 upheld a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota that found that the statute’s prohibitions had the effect […]

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) listed costs and time among several reasons for its preferred method to close its coal ash impoundments in place, rather than by removal, but the move has come under fire by environmental groups. The federally owned corporation earlier this month released a final environmental impact statement (EIS) to support its […]

Georgia Power will shut down and stop receiving coal ash at all 29 of its coal ash ponds within the next three years. The announcement on June 13 is the latest in a string of similar moves from coal plant–owning utilities across the nation in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) coal ash disposal […]

  Even though it may dominate forecasts, natural gas–fired generation faces a troubled expansion in the U.S., according to experts from a variety of stake-holding entities—including an industry group, a utility, a generator, and a pipeline company. Challenges that have few solutions—from price volatility, to gas transport concerns, to rule uncertainty—may upend the nation’s dependence […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Experts: Gas Power's Expansion Riddled with Roadblocks   Even though it may dominate forecasts, natural gas–fired generation faces a troubled expansion in the U.S., according to experts from a variety of stake-holding entities—including an industry group, a utility, a […]

June 06, 2016 09:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time LENEXA, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kiewit is promoting four key leaders within its power business, which has provided engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to more than 600 power-related projects, totaling nearly $18 billion in contract revenue, over the past 10 years. To meet the evolving needs of the energy […]