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U.S. and China Agree to Increase Nationwide Carbon Reduction Targets
Reaching an unexpected climate breakthrough, the U.S. and China in a joint statement on Wednesday each announced new targets to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. President Barack Obama set a new target to cut U.S. carbon emissions between 26%… Read More

Nuclear Plants on the Edge Could Benefit from Clean Power Plan
A couple of recently released reports offer some hope for the future of nuclear power plants operating on the fringe of profitability. Moody’s Investors Service suggests that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan “could increase the value… Read More

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IEA: 40% of World’s Power Fleet Will Need to Be Replaced by 2040
Events over the past year—turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East and the Russian-Ukraine gas crisis—along with uncertainty for nuclear power and pervading energy poverty worldwide show that the energy system is "under stress," the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in… Read More

Environmental Group Alleges TVA Coal Ash Pollution Leaking Into River
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) informed the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on Nov. 10 that it intends to bring suit under the Clean Water Act to stop the release of coal ash pollutants it says are leaking from the… Read More

Oncor Wants to Spend $5.2 Billion on Energy Storage
Texas utility Oncor announced this week that it will seek regulatory approval to spend up to $5.2 billion on 5 GW of energy storage resources to firm up its grid and improve reliability. Oncor owns the state’s largest electrical grid,… Read More

SCE Signs Contracts for Record Amount of Energy Storage
Southern California Edison (SCE) signed contracts for more than 260 MW of energy storage resources on Nov. 5, among them what will be the largest grid-connected battery system in the world, a 100-MW facility supplied by AES Energy Storage. Under… Read More

B&W to Spin Off Power Generation from Nuclear Business
On Nov. 5, The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W) announced that its board of directors has unanimously approved a plan for the tax-free spin-off of the company’s power generation business to B&W’s shareholders, in the process forming two independently traded… Read More

Russia and China Sign Another Major Gas Deal
After a decade of negotiations, Russia and China have now closed two major gas supply agreements, with a memorandum of understanding for a second route west of the first being signed on Nov. 9. According to Russian media, Russian President… Read More

Japan OKs Restart of First Two Nuclear Units, New Delay at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s twin Sendai nuclear units in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov. 7 got the government's green light to restart. Once back online, likely in 2015, the units will be the first to restart of Japan's 48 reactors that… Read More

DOE Backs Four Gasification Research Projects
Four industry-led projects will each receive about $16 million in federal funding to help them to significantly reduce the cost of producing hydrogen-rich syngas derived from fossil fuels and advance the gasification process for power generation and syngas production, the… Read More