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Renewables
Biomass-Fed Organic Rankine Cycle Units Make It Big
One of the world’s largest biomass-fed organic rankine cycle (ORC) plants is getting ready to begin operations. Italian firm Turboden is preparing to put online an 8-MW power unit in Athens, Maine, that will
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Hydro
Ethiopia Begins Generating Power from 1.87-GW Gibe III Hydro Plant
Ethiopia’s generation capacity got an immense boost as operations began at the 1.87-GW Gibe III hydroelectric power plant in the middle reach of the Omo River basin this October. The plant—Ethiopia’s
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Renewables
The Potentials and Pitfalls of Battery Storage
Battery storage firms and energy storage experts at the Energy Storage North America (ESNA) conference in San Diego Oct. 13–15 were effusive in their praise of battery storage’s potential while
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Nuclear
Germany: Utilities Must Shoulder Nuclear Phase-Out Costs
Germany’s nuclear power–producing companies will be able to shoulder the costs of the nuclear phase-out—including costs for decommissioning and the disposal of radioactive waste. That’s according to
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Wind
“Revolutionary” Grid Connection for Offshore Wind Turbines Unveiled
Siemens, the only provider of direct-current (DC) offshore wind connection projects, in October unveiled a potentially game-changing technology that it says enables cheaper and simpler grid connection of wind
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Renewables
POWER Digest (December 2015)
GE Completes Alstom Acquisition. GE announced on Nov. 2 that a $10.6 billion deal to acquire Alstom ’s power and grid business is complete. Alstom will now entirely refocus its activities on rail transport
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Partner Content
ENR RANKS NATIONAL STEEL CITY THIRD LARGEST STRUCTURAL STEEL ERECTOR IN NORTH AMERICA
Ranking fueled by a 66 percent revenue jump to $97.7M in 2014; NSC also moves up from #302 to #203 among the nation’s Top 600 specialty contractors.
Plymouth, Mich., Nov. 30, 2015 – National Steel City, one of the nation’s leading steel construction and erection companies, today announced it has been ranked the third largest structural -
Coal
UK Axes CCS Competition, Puts Two Big Carbon Capture Power Projects at Risk
The UK has canceled its flagship £1 billion ($1.5 billion) competition to help commercialize carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology from power plants. The decision by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was announced in a three-sentence release to the London Stock Exchange just days before crucial climate change negotiations are due to […]
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Coal
Coal Under Fire as Paris Climate Summit Approaches
The news coming out of several countries in advance of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) casts an ominous pall over the future of the coal industry. The End of Coal Generation in Alberta Fresh on the heels of last week’s announcement by UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd that she plans to […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Costs of MATS Don’t Change Rule Justifications, EPA Says
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Nov. 20 issued a supplemental finding that consideration of costs does not affect its previous conclusion that regulation of coal- and oil-fired power plants is “appropriate and necessary” under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. The finding was in response to a June decision by the U.S. Supreme […]