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California Declares Stage 3 Emergency Alert, Warns Rotating Outages Possible
California’s grid operator issued a Stage 3 energy emergency alert (EEA) at 5:17 p.m. PST on Sept. 6, warning it would order rotating power outages to lower soaring power demand…
Group: EPA’s Coordinated Regulatory Assault on Coal Power Could Push Retirements Beyond 86 GW by 2030
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying a regulatory sweep targeting more stringent limits on traditional pollutants that could accelerate coal power plant closures. A coal trade group estimates that…
Biden Signs Bill to Transform U.S. Energy, Combat Climate Change
President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should provide further impetus for growth of U.S. renewable energy, coming on the heels of a report from the Federal Energy…
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AEP CEO Nick Akins to Step Down, Julie Sloat Tapped as Next Company Head
American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) long-serving chairman, president, and CEO, Nick Akins, will step down as CEO on Jan. 1, 2023, and has already passed the company’s presidency to Julie A.…
Another Power Giant’s CEO Is Retiring: Entergy’s Leo Denault
Entergy Corp.’s chairman and CEO Leo P. Denault will retire in 2023, ending a decade-long role as the head of the New Orleans–headquartered power generating giant. Denault will be succeeded…
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Southern CEO Fanning Set to Step Down
Longtime Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning plans to announce his retirement, perhaps by the end of this year, stepping down after leading the company since 2010. A Bloomberg report on…
Another Major Leadership Shuffle: PSEG Gets New CEO
In another high-profile leadership shuffle at a major U.S. power generating company, PSEG’s longtime president and CEO Ralph Izzo on Sept. 1 passed leadership of the regulated infrastructure company to…
DOE Backs Carbon Capture Development at Two Major Gas-Fired Power Plants   
Two major U.S. gas power plants will be part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) efforts to develop carbon capture technologies capable of capturing at least 95% of carbon dioxide. …
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Zero Trust: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Responding to CISA’s ‘Shields Up’
There are no boundaries in cyberspace. That fact has accelerated sharing of threat intelligence across the defenders, but it exponentially raises the threat of cyberattacks. This reality is underscored by…
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Cyberhawk and Azure Integrity combine expertise to leverage data visualisation software in Australia

DORIS and Axens signed a MOU for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage services

FM Global allocates US$300 million, first-of-its-kind ‘resilience credit’ to help policyholders proactively invest in climate resilience

Versatile Flow Switch Protects Cooling Tower Pumps From Dry-Running Conditions, Emergency Shutdowns

CMT cladding tower for giant membrane walls

EU affirms confidence in GE’s g³ technology by co-funding development of its 245 kV SF₆-free g³ gas-insulated substation
 
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