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    Dominion Virginia Power starts operations at Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center

    St. Paul, Va., July 11, 2012 — Dominion Virginia Power placed the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in Southwest Virginia into commercial operation, on budget and on schedule following four years of construction. The $1.8-billion circulating fluidized bed project uses coal , waste coal ...

    By Lindsey Smith • July 11, 2012
  • Clean energy investment up 24% worldwide in second quarter

    Investment of $18.3 billion in China leads the way as solar and wind projects pick up steam.

    By July 11, 2012
  • Major Cluster Of Data Centers Inhabit Northern Virginia Explore the Trendline
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    Trendline

    Electricity Supply and Demand

    After nearly two decades of flat demand, U.S. electricity consumption reached an all-time high in 2024 and is expected to continue rising. This trendline brings together the best of Utility Dive’s coverage of emerging trends in supply and demand and the decisions being made today that will impact the power system for years to come. 

    By Utility Dive staff
  • SDG&E invests in future paradigm utility-scale solar generation

    8minutenergy Renewables has entered a Generation Interconnection Agreement (GIA) with the California Independent Systems Operator Corporation (CalISO) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). The agreement calls for 200 MW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power from its solar proj...

    By Lindsey Smith • July 11, 2012
  • Utility workers, Entergy settle labor dispute at Pilgrim Station in Mass.

    The Utility Workers Union of America's local at Entergy's Pilgrim plant voted Sunday night for a four-year contract that will end a lockout that began in June.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 10, 2012
  • Illinois says maybe not after all on coal-to-gas plant's air permit

    Pressured by environmental groups and urged by the U.S. EPA, the Illinois EPA is reconsidering an air permit it issued for Tenaska's propose coal-gasification facility.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 10, 2012
  • House bill would prevent U.S. Energy Department from issuing loan guarantees

    Republicans propose a bill to prevent future occurrences of the Solyndra scenario.

    By July 10, 2012
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    Patriot Coal files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

    St. Louis, July 10, 2012 — Patriot Coal Corp., a producer and marketer of coal products in the Eastern U.S., and most of its units have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Patr...

    By Lindsey Smith • July 10, 2012
  • Nuclear engineers, technicians strike at Canadian firm Candu Energy

    The company is a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin, and its workers build and service reactors important to Canada's power generation.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 10, 2012
  • Ohio OKs capacity-pricing system for AEP

    The state's Public Utilities Commission's goal is to make AEP-Ohio a fully competitive retailer.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 10, 2012
  • Indianapolis Power & Light to stop buying more renewable power

    The Indiana utility will continue to honor current agreements, but cites high costs of renewable energy in its decisions.

    By July 9, 2012
  • IEA predicts 40% boost to renewable energy production

    The International Energy Agency expects Wind, Solar, Hydro and Biopower to account for a lot more energy internationally by 2017

    By July 9, 2012
  • Duke's Rogers to testify as merger fallout riles regulators

    North Carolina regulators and the state attorney general are taking a hard look at the Duke Energy-Progress Energy merger.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 9, 2012
  • KPMG names top 10 urban energy projects

    Ten international urban energy projects are featured in KPMG's "Infrastructure 100: World Cities Edition."

    By Lindsey Smith • July 6, 2012
  • Georgia Power begins growth of solar with 19-MW plan

    Georgia Power has a deal to install 19 MW of solar capacity as it moves to fulfill its pledge to the state.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 6, 2012
  • First Wind completes Kaheawa Wind II project

    On a bluff above Ma'alaea harbor in West Maui, First Wind's Kaheawa station is producing power.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 5, 2012
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    Outgoing NRC head Jaczko says no nuclear license renewals 'for a few years'

    In his final news conference as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko said the NRC may not be able to renew licenses for operating nuclear plants for "a few years" because of a federal court ruling, but the practical impact of this will be limited.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 5, 2012
  • EPA grants 90-day stay for San Juan station in N.M.

    The EPA and the state came up with separate air-quality plans for PNM's plant.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 3, 2012
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    High-voltage switchgear is an expanding market, led by China, U.S.

    Expansion in China makes up about 20% of the global demand as power reaches into more parts of the country.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 3, 2012
  • IBM trims $43 million from global power bill with energy-saving effort

    IBM had about 3,200 conservation programs in place at 364 facilities around the world in 2011.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 2, 2012
  • Co-ops' group tells EPA its carbon regs have legal flaws

    The National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association says proposed greenhouse gas rules make invalid assumptions about gas availability and carbon capture.

    By Ron Gallagher • July 2, 2012
  • Idaho PUC, solar developer at odds on who owns development credits

    A solar developer says federal law gives it development credits and that Idaho is taking them, but the state says that's reading the law wrong.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 29, 2012
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    N.C. says Duke-Progress merger will keep jobs in the state

    The industry is shifting, and having the two North Carolina companies form the nation's biggest utility, based in Charlotte, is better than one merging with a company from elsewhere, the state Utilities Commission said.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 29, 2012
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    Electricity storage: Location, location, location – and cost

    The federal Energy Information Administration offers a survey of storage technologies as they exist now and the pluses and minuses of the options.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 29, 2012
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    Duke-Progress merger approved in North Carolina

    N.C. Utilities Commission clears the way for Duke Energy and Progress Energy to join by July 1, creating the country's largest electric utility.

    By June 29, 2012
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    3 Duke Energy stories to watch

    The Motley Fool breaks down three big stories that are currently unfolding for one of the country's largest electrical utilities.

    By June 29, 2012