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The Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Feb. 3 that it was ending its involvement with the troubled FutureGen 2.0 clean coal project, concluding that it had run out of time to finish development before federal funding expires in September. First proposed under the Bush administration in 2003, suspended in 2008, then revived and allocated […]

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Southern Co. said in a regulatory filing on Jan. 30 that its two-unit expansion at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia may be delayed another 18 months, with its costs expected to rise at least $720 million. The company was informed of the delays by Westinghouse and CB&I, which are supplying and building the […]

President Obama sent his 2016 budget request to Congress on Feb. 2, surely setting off a protracted battle with the new GOP majority over requests for increased spending on renewable energy initiatives and efforts to address climate change. It is certain that the budget will not become law in its current form, and it was […]

Although Peru has been one of the best-performing economies worldwide over the last decade, its energy sector is still small in absolute numbers. Consumption levels per capita are low, even by Latin American standards, and demand growth is highly dependent on new mining investments. Successive governments have kept energy prices low; and regional interconnection, which […]

A powerful blizzard packing hurricane-strength winds that hit the northeast U.S. yesterday and dropped as much as two feet of snow in some areas forced the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station offline after the distribution lines taking its electricity failed. According to a spokesperson with Entergy, Pilgrim’s owner, the plant shut down safely around 4 a.m. […]

The U.S. and India announced on Jan. 25 that negotiators had reached an agreement resolving the impasse over India’s nuclear liability law that had prevented U.S. companies from supplying reactors to India out of fear of potentially unlimited liability in the case of an accident. Details of the agreement, which would create a government-sponsored insurance […]

In a dramatic move that passed the state Legislature with little debate and almost no opposition, West Virginia lawmakers on Jan. 22 voted to repeal the state’s 2009 alternative energy standard, which requires utilities to get 25% of their power from alternative sources by 2025. The repeal bill passed the state Senate unanimously and the […]

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