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B&W to Restructure Power Business, Cites Dismal Coal Projections
Projections that coal utilization will decline faster than previously forecast have spurred Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (B&W) to shed 200 jobs and restructure its traditional power business that serves coal-fired power generation in a bid to reduce overhead and improve… Read More

U.S., Canada, Mexico Commit to 50% Carbon-Free Power by 2025
The U.S., Mexico, and Canada today to announced an unprecedented goal to procure 50% of North America's total power generation from renewables, nuclear, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and energy efficiency technologies by 2025. President Obama, Prime Minister of Canada… Read More

Brexit Implications for UK Nuclear Power
When the UK, the European Union’s (EU’s) second-largest economy, voted to leave the union on June 23, reactions were swift and sometimes unexpected, but what does the Brexit vote mean for the nuclear power industry, which is an increasingly global… Read More

California Governor, Legislature, Agree on Major Overhaul of CPUC
California Gov. Jerry Brown and members of the California legislature have agreed on a package of “sweeping” reforms designed to overhaul the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), increase transparency, and change how the CPUC conducts much of its business. The… Read More

World Nuclear Exhibition Addresses Challenging Markets and New Solutions
The second World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) began on June 28 in Le Bourget, just outside Paris, with the usual mixed messages about the need for and challenges of nuclear power globally. During the opening ceremony, Fatih Birol, executive director of… Read More

IEA: World’s Power Sector Trails Others in Air Emissions
The world's power sector last year emitted a third of global sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, 14% of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 5% of total particulate emissions (PM2.5), but those emission values have fallen drastically over the last decade even though… Read More

District Energy Systems Improve Efficiency and Reduce Carbon Emissions
Although it’s not widely publicized, a majority of the energy used to generate electricity is wasted in the form of heat discharged to the environment. For better or worse, that’s just the way a typical thermal power plant works. Fuel,… Read More

U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Closures [Slideshow]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, nuclear power has accounted for about 20% of electricity generated in the U.S. each year since 1990. In fact, the U.S. nuclear fleet out produced France—the country with the next highest nuclear generation—by… Read More

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Check out these stories from POWER's June 2016 issue and its sister publications:

Disruptive Digital Technologies Are Key to Power Industry’s Future

Executive Roundtable Addresses the New Face of the Power Industry

How the Power Industry Is Making Sense of an Environmental Quandary

Learning from the Clean Air Act’s Tragic Flaw

THE BIG PICTURE (infographic): A String of Retirements

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