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U.S. Cybersecurity Super Team Reveals How Attackers Prompted Ukraine Blackouts
External malicious actors deployed a "synchronized and coordinated" cyberattack to prompt the large-scale blackout in Ukraine last December, a U.S. interagency team has confirmed. The event on December 23, 2015— the world's first power blackout prompted by a cyberattack—saw a swathe… Read More

Solar PV Capacity Factors a Mix of Insolation and Design
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has exploded over the past few years. From nearly nothing in the late 2000s, the U.S. now has more than 10 GW of utility-scale solar PV in operation according to the Energy Information Administration. That… Read More

Did the D.C. Commission Issue a Stealth Exelon-Pepco Merger Approval?
The District of Columbia Public Service Commission (PSC) on Friday (Feb. 26) rejected a restructured $6.8 billion merger proposal between Exelon and local electric utility Pepco, but offered a counter proposal with conditions that the two companies are likely to… Read More

Lessons Learned from Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Human Aspects Still Need Work
“The one thing that is most difficult to enhance is one of the most important components of a nuclear power plant and that is the people,” said William D. Magwood IV, director-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s… Read More

Gas-Fired Generation Pulled Nearly Even with Coal in 2015, EIA Says
Battered by stubbornly low natural gas prices and regulatory headwinds, coal-fired generation fell into a near-tie with natural gas in 2015, according to data released on Feb. 26 by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). For all of 2015, coal generated… Read More

New Reports Say CPP and Renewable Tax Credits Have Big Implications for the Power Sector
New reports released this week see big growth in renewables from the recently extended federal tax credits, but big uncertainty due to the possible end of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). New York-based consulting firm Rhodium Group says investment plans… Read More

A Brief History of U.S. Coal Ash Since the Kingston Spill
The disposal of coal ash, a combustion byproduct from coal-fired power plants, was propelled into the national conversation on December 22, 2008, when the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Kingston power plant suffered one of the largest coal ash spills in… Read More

Notable Coal Ash Spills [Slideshow]
The coal ash spill in December 2008 at the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired Kingston power plant may have triggered regulatory action, but it wasn't the first or the most devastating disaster in the coal industry's history. Coal Ash Spills at Power… Read More

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

Desalination Expands, but Energy Challenges Remain

Zero-Discharge Pozzolanic Brine Solidification: Another Option for Treating FGD Wastewater

Beyond the Firewall: Best Practices for Cybersecurity Risk Management

Germany's Energiewende at a New Turning Point

Will Tomorrow's Power Plants Have Enough Water?

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