The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled details of the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP), a voluntary measure central to the judicially stalled Clean Power Plan that seeks to provide guidance to states and tribes that want to meet goals under the plan when it becomes effective. The final Clean Power Plan, finalized in […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Grid Edge and Digital Technologies Take Center Stage at EEI Convention Panels at the 2016 Edison Electric Institute convention focused on technologies and policies at what’s often called the “grid edge." Read More   EEI Convention Opens with Call to […]

June 09, 2016 04:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) has executed agreements with the PJM System Operator(PJM) and the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) to move the vast majority of Dynegy’s Hennepin Power Station’s energy and capacity to the PJM market from MISO. The five-year transmission service agreements – which require […]

With coal set to remain the world’s second largest energy source through 2030, GE’s leading steam technology and digital capabilities will be critical to achieving global greenhouse gas reduction targets set out at COP21 Digital Power Plant software interprets data from more than 10,000 sensors to improve coal-fired steam power plant performance and increases efficiency […]

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 […]