“An Introduction to Large Thermal Power Generation Plants,” a 3-day course designed to provide useful knowledge to those interested in energy, electric power generation, and the basics of fossil power production, is being presented by Williamson College of the Trades, in Media, Pa., from July 12-14. The course will include tours of three local power […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Great Plains Energy to Acquire Westar Energy in Deal Worth $12.2 Billion Kansas City–based Great Plains Energy has agreed to purchase Westar Energy—Kansas’ largest electric utility—in a combined cash and stock transaction with an enterprise value of about $12.2 […]

  Siemens has signed a long-term contract extension for service and maintenance at the 152-megawatt (MW) Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma that will add Balance of Plant (BoP) to the scope and extend it for another 15 years. This marks the first long-term BoP wind service agreement in the U.S. for Siemens. The customer […]

Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) Signs Six-Year Pact with GE’s Power Services Business, Covering Fleet of Gas Turbines at Two Power Plants in Bangkok Agreement Builds on GE’s Work with EGAT to Increase Availability, Reliability and Economics of the Power Plants   BANGKOK—May 26, 2016—GE’s Power Services business (NYSE: GE) today announced it has signed a multiyear […]

  General Atomics is Building ITER’s Central Solenoid, the Heart of the Fusion Reactor SAN DIEGO, May 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Jeff Quintenz, Senior Vice President of General Atomics’ Energy Group, issued the following statement on Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s report released today recommending continued U.S. support for ITER, the world’s largest magnetic fusion device […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) has pulled back funding for two proposed offshore wind demonstration projects spearheaded separately by Dominion Virginia Power and Principle Power, bolstering its support instead for projects it says demonstrate more progress or potential. The funding decision stems from the agency’s 2012 selection of seven offshore demonstration projects, which initially received […]

A new rule proposed by the Obama administration requires vendors and contractors selling goods and services to the federal government to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related risk data. The rule proposed by the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council on May 25 seeks to drive greater disclosure of the federal government’s supply chain, which […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Watts Bar Unit 2 Reactor Goes Critical (and That’s a Good Thing) The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) newest nuclear plant, Watts Bar Unit 2, achieved initial criticality on May 23 at 2:16 a.m. Although that may sound ominous to […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must halt its drive to help states supportive of the Clean Power Plan to comply with the rule because it defies the Supreme Court stay, the attorneys general for West Virginia and Texas have urged the agency. An April 28 request to the agency by 14 states seeking technical assistance […]

May 23, 2016 04:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it has achieved substantial completion for Dominion Virginia Power’s (NYSE: D) Brunswick County (Va.) Power Station. .@FluorCorp completes Dominion’s Brunswick County Power Station Tweet this Fluor provided engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services for the 1,358-megawatt natural gas-fueled power […]