Power Industry

SWEPCO to Purchase Valley Electric Membership Corporation Assets

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) utility subsidiary AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) has signed a letter of intent to purchase the transmission and distribution assets of Valley Electric Membership Corporation (VEMCO). more...
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ABB celebrates landmark power technology

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial HVDC Light installation, a technological innovation that has opened up new possibilities in power transmission. more...

Emerson's Scenario Simulation Technology to Streamline Startup of New 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power Plant in Korea

Emerson Process Management announced today that it has won a contract to install its Scenario simulation technology at the new 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Plant. more...

Itron's Fixed Network, Advanced Two-Way Communication to the Endpoint Offers NW Natural Gas Added Value beyond Automation

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that NW Natural Gas is leveraging its deployment of Itron advanced metering technology to include evaluation of its fixed network for collecting two-way time-synchronized interval data and on-demand reads from customers, as well as retrieve up to 40 days of interval data. more...

Dedication Ceremony Marks Completion of Tekeze Hydropower Plant

MWH, the global wet infrastructure sector leader and provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, and joint venture partner Energoprojekt Co. Ltd., helped celebrate the completion of the $350 million Tekeze Hydropower Project in northern Ethiopia. more...

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Utility Business

Final decision eludes group crafting rules for energy corridors

A study panel formed to recommend how to regulate energy corridors across Maine put off its final decision Wednesday as members wrestled with a last-minute bid to extend a moratorium on proposed projects. more...
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House advances bill to ban foreign nuke waste

A House committee advanced legislation Thursday that would block Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions's plan to import 20,000 tons of Italian radioactive waste into the United States and bury some of it in Utah. more...
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Duke consumers to be asked to pay for smart grid without assurance of useful benefits

Duke Energy Ohio today filed a settlement to cover the costs of the next phase of its plan to implement a smart grid. more...
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Reilly leaving NIPSCO for Florida courts post

NIPSCO Director of Communications and Public Affairs Colleen Reilly is leaving the utility company for a new job. more...
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Power Generation

National Grid objects to proposed cost of wind power

Despite pressure from the governor and other state officials, National Grid has again rejected a proposal to buy clean power from a developer proposing to build a $200-million wind farm off Block Island. more...
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Alliant to heat 5 steam clients temporarily

Alliant Energy says just five of the original 200 customers won't be ready Dec. 1 when the utility shuts down its 117-year-old downtown steam system. more...
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Drill tests nuclear plant's crisis plan

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. For Linn and Benton county emergency management agencies, failure is not an option. more...
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Ameresco and City of Santa Clara Unveil New Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant

The City of Santa Clara and Ameresco today unveiled an innovative clean energy project that will capture and put to use gas created naturally at the city's closed municipal landfill. more...
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Power Delivery

Concern over power line amps up

A proposed transmission line exists only on paper, but it's already generating plenty of heat in Clark County. more...
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Site approved for enXco

The Nobles County Planning Commission Wednesday night approved a conditional use permit for enXco, a wind energy development company based in Minneapolis, to construct a switching station and maintenance facility in Nobles County. more...

Power line sought for Door County

American Transmission Co. has asked state regulators for permission to build a power line in Door County to boost reliability in the northern part of the peninsula. more...
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Energy Storage

Beacon Power Breaks Ground on 20-Megawatt Flywheel Energy Storage Plant

Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq: BCON), was joined today by state and local officials at a formal groundbreaking event in Stephentown, New York, signaling the start of construction for the nation's first full-scale 20-megawatt (MW) flywheel frequency regulation plant. more...

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End-Use Management

PSE&G Expanding Free Home Energy Audits to Customers in Urban Enterprise Zones

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) today announced it is offering free home energy audits and free or low-cost energy conservation measures to eligible customers in the 25 Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) municipalities located in the utility's service territory. more...
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Rebates planned for some appliances

Oklahomans soon could get rebates for their old washing machines and fridges under a proposed plan through the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. more...
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