DOE Opens $12.5B Nuclear Loan Guarantee Solicitation The Department of Energy (DOE) today opened a loan guarantee solicitation to make available as much as $12.5 billion to bolster the construction of new nuclear projects. Issued under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Advanced… Read More
Construction Monitor: Longer Delays Are Likely for Vogtle Reactors The two nuclear reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle will be delayed beyond their forecast commercial operation dates of December 2017 and 2018, an oversight team told Georgia regulators in the project’s latest construction monitoring report. The consortium building the… Read More
Solar PV Continues Strong Growth in U.S. Spurred by large utility-scale projects and healthy growth in residential installations, the U.S. added 1.3 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the third quarter of 2014, according to the latest US Solar Market Insight Report published by the Solar… Read More
India's Kudankulam Nuke Plant Is Back Online Unit 1 of India’s long-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which reached commercial operations after 26 years of development this summer only to be shut down in September after a turbine accident, was brought back online on Dec. 8. The two-unit… Read More
Two Leading Renewable Energy Companies Agree to Combine NextEra Energy Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HEI)—two companies with substantial renewable energy resources—agreed on Dec. 3 to combine in a transaction valued at roughly $4.3 billion. Currently, NextEra Energy’s principal subsidiaries include Florida Power & Light Co. (the… Read More
Mexico’s Electricity Sector Reform in Perspective Much has been made recently of Mexico’s energy sector reforms, and because those reforms are still in being implemented, it can be useful to compare their progress with the outcome of previous reforms in Latin America. (A condensed version of… Read More
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