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Siemens Details Spinoff of Energy Business
The parent of Siemens Energy on May 26 provided details of the planned spinoff of the company’s energy business, saying 55% of Siemens Energy will be spun off to Siemens’…
 
With Vogtle Completion in Sight, Southern Company Targets Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
Fresh off the announcement that the final module for Vogtle Unit 3 was placed at the nuclear expansion project in Georgia, Southern Company said on May 27 that it was…
IRS Grants Wind and Solar Sectors Critical COVID-19 Reprieves
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has granted a one-year extension of the continuity safe harbor, providing much-needed relief for many wind developers, which, crippled by pandemic-related delays, were racing…
 
Alliant Closing Coal Unit, Brings Gas Plant Online
Wisconsin-based Alliant Energy on May 22 said it would retire the coal-fired Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan by year-end 2022, an announcement coming just one week after the utility said…
GenOn Will Close Three Coal-Fired Units
The Texas-based company that owns a coal-fired power plant in Maryland announced it will retire the facility’s three generating units, which have been in operation for about 60 years. GenOn…
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Failed Michigan Dam Had Longstanding Spillway Deficiencies
The Edenville dam, which failed on March 19 flooding Midland, Michigan, and forcing as many as 10,000 residents to evacuate their homes, had its license revoked by the Federal Energy…
Thanks to Asia, Coal Is Still King Worldwide
Despite the U.S. and Europe shuttering coal-fired power plants, coal remains a major fuel in global energy systems. In 2018, global coal demand rebounded and grew by 1.4% due to…
The POWER Interview: How Modern Control System Technology Is Changing Power Plant Operation
Distributed control systems (DCSs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have been commonplace in power plants for decades, but the technology has not been stagnant. Today’s systems are beginning to incorporate…
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[VIDEO] POWER Insights: Nuclear Reactor with 3D-Printed Core Slated for Operation in 2023
In the first installment of POWER’s brand new video interview series, POWER Insights, Kurt Terrani, technical director of the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) program, talks to POWER Senior Associate Editor…
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Unmatched in the U.S.: Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbines to power 2.6-GW Dominion Energy project

Largest Public Power System in Pennsylvania Partners with Sun Tribe for Solar

Energy Impact Partners Enters Infrastructure Market With 100-MW Portfolio of Community Solar Projects

Large cogeneration project in Japan is expanded by 20 Spanner Re2 systems

Doosan Škoda Power turbines continue to conquer Latin America, where they will serve in Uruguay’s first combined gas-steam cycle power plant

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GE Renewable Energy to Support the Development of Clean Electricity in Pakistan
 
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