Ohio Nixes Duke Energy Proposal to Guarantee Income from Coal Plants As it decided in a February case involving American Electric Power (AEP), the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has denied Duke Energy Ohio's request to charge ratepayers for power from two aging coal plants owned by the Ohio Valley… Read More
Find out by nominating it for a POWER award by April 30. The 2015 categories are:
Plant of the Year Award
Reinvention Award (formerly Marmaduke Award)
Water Award
Smart Grid Award
Top Plants Awards (in gas, coal, nuclear, and renewable subcategories)
All nominated projects must be in commercial operation by the nomination deadline of April 30, 2015. You'll find award information, lists of former winners, and nomination forms at https://www.powermag.com/power-awards/
Power Cuts Affect Wide Swath of D.C., Including the White House, Capitol A dip in voltage prompted temporary power cuts to the White House, Capitol Hill, the State Department, and other parts of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon. D.C. utility PEPCO said in a statement that the disturbance that affected about 8,000… Read More
NRC To Begin Expedited Cybersecurity Rulemaking for Nuclear Fuel-Cycle Facilities Staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should expeditiously complete and implement cybersecurity rulemaking for nuclear fuel-cycle facilities, the regulatory agency's commissioners have ordered. In a March 24 agency memorandum to Mark Satorius, NRC executive director for operations, the commission… Read More
SunEdison Procures 100 MW of Storage for Indian Minigrids Renewable energy development company SunEdison announced on Mar. 25 that it had agreed to purchase up to 1,000 vanadium redox flow batteries totaling more than 100 MW of storage capacity from Imergy Power Systems to be used for community minigrid… Read More
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