Power Industry

Swedish Sweco wins transmission line project in Lithuania

Swedish consultancy Sweco AB (STO: SWEC B) said today it will develop a power transmission line in a deal, worth more than EUR860,000 for Lithuanian utility Lietuvos Energija (LE) (VSE: LEN1L). more...

UK Government Announces GBP9m Funding for new, Sustainably-Manufactured Electric City Car

A project to develop a new all-electric and affordable urban car, manufactured using an innovative and sustainable production process is announced today. more...

GP Strategies' Operating Subsidiary Awarded Contract with Salt River Project for EtaPRO Monitoring System

Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), the operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), announced today that it has won a major competitively bid contract to install its EtaPRO performance monitoring system on Salt River Project's (SRP) thermal and natural gas power plants in Arizona. more...

Nuclear reactor at Mihama plant to continue operation after 40 yrs

The No.1 nuclear reactor at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture will continue to operate after its 40th anniversary in November next year, power company officials said Thursday. more...

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Utility Business

Dominion Reaches Comprehensive Proposed Settlement Agreement in Pending Virginia Rate Proceedings

Dominion announced today that it and the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Division of Consumer Counsel, Wal-Mart Stores East and Sam's East, Kroger, Chaparral (Virginia) Inc., MeadWestvaco Corp., International Paper Company, and the Apartment & Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington, have filed a comprehensive Stipulation and proposed Recommendation for approval by the Virginia State Corporation Commission. more...
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Alliant defends management decisions in rate case

Interstate Power & Light is defending the effectiveness of its management as its argument to state regulators for a 16.6 percent increase in electric revenue draws to a close. more...
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Ohio Consumers' Counsel Files new Appeal of AEP Case at Supreme Court

The Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (http://www.pickocc.org)(OCC) is back in court trying to stop American Electric Power (AEP) from collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful rate increases. more...
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PGE Files Energy Resource Plan with Public Utility Commission

Portland General Electric Company (PGE) (NYSE:POR) today filed a comprehensive resource plan with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, outlining proposed strategies to meet its customers' electricity needs over the next 20 years. more...
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FirstEnergy's Beaver Valley Power Station Receives License Renewal from Nuclear Regulatory Commission

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. , announced today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a 20-year license extension for the Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 and Unit 2 in Shippingport, Pa. more...
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Power Generation

Coal in good shape, companies say

Despite complaints from industry lobbyists and coalfield politicians about an impending permit crisis, most major Appalachian coal producers are telling their shareholders that increased federal environmental reviews are not likely to disrupt production or cause layoffs anytime soon. more...
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Answers Call for Clean-Coal Technology with Commissioning of Compact Gasification Pilot Plant

Responding to the nation's need for affordable clean-coal technology, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne today celebrated the commissioning of a compact gasification pilot plant in Illinois designed to help lower energy costs, provide a clean alternative fuel source and strengthen U.S. energy security. more...
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DEP finds problems at W.Va.'s coal-ash dams

Nearly two-thirds of the coal-ash dams across West Virginia might need repairs, and a quarter of them are ranked as being in poor or unsatisfactory condition, according to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Protection. more...
Filed under Emissions & Environmental

New fences to be installed at VY

To further protect the reactor at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant from those with hostile intent, a pair of 6,000-foot-long fences will be installed before the end of March 2010. more...
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WPL tests biomass at Cassville power plant

Wisconsin Power & Light has started testing various types of biomass to fuel its Nelson Dewey power plant at Cassville, along the Mississippi River in Grant County. more...
Filed under Biomass

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