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FERC Issues Permit to Study 1-MW Prompton Dam Hydropower Project in Pennsylvania

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a preliminary permit to Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XXVI LLC to study the feasibility of the proposed 1-MW Prom…

Lithuanian Wind Energy Association

The Lithuanian Wind Energy Association (LWEA) was established on 2 October 2002.Our main objective is to create and develop a full cycle of wind power activitie…

New Technology

Estonian Scientists Use Silver for Next Generation of Solar Cells

Materials researchers at Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology partially substituted copper with silver in solar cells’ absorber material to improve the …

Will the Midwest Take Advantage of the Emerging Hydrogen Economy?

California is a leader in the use of hydrogen fuel cells, but experts say they’re also well suited for the Midwest.

Nuclear Power Plant

Old Scottish Power Station Caught Leaking Specs of Nuclear Dust

A nice little British nuclear catastrophe has been uncovered in Scotland, where the complex and millennia-long process of decommissioning the Dounreay facility …

CCGT

1050-MW Fairview Energy Center Was Commercially Operational in Pennsylvania

The internationally funded $1 billion, 1,050-MW Fairview project was developed and is managed by Maryland-based CPV. Fairview utilizes GE equipment while Kiewit…

Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts

If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…

Market Analysis

Report Demonstrates Tasmania’s Green Hydrogen Potential

A new report released yesterday by the Tasmanian Government details the Australian state’s unique potential to become a leading supplier of clean, secure and a…

Nuclear Technology

EDF, Veolia Team up to Decommission Graphite Reactors

A joint venture for the decommissioning of reactors that use graphite technology has been established by France's EDF and Veolia. Graphitech will seek contracts…

Combined cycle power plant

1050 MW Natural Gas-fueled Combined-cycle Power Plant Are Running in Pennsylvania

The plant is now supplying natural gas and ethane-fueled combined-cycle electric power to more than one million Pennsylvania homes and businesses.

Power Construction

Penn Power Wraps Up Resilience Projects in Time for Winter Cold

As winter approaches, The Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power) is wrapping up major projects expected to enhance electric service reliability for nearly 20,0…

Offshore Wind Power

Estonia And Latvia to Jointly Develop An Offshore Wind Mega-project of 1GW in the Baltic Sea

The Liivi Bay project in the Gulf of Riga, which would be developed by Estonia's Eesti Energia, would present the two small Baltic nations with a means of sprea…

Seismic Upgrades Move Forward at B.F. Sisk Dam

A billion-dollar seimic upgrade project at B.F. Sisk Dam and San Luis Reservoir in California is to move forward, the US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and the Ca…

Nuclear Fuel

Iran, Russia Discuss Nuclear Cooperation

Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanayee and Deputy Head of Russia’s Rosatom Company Nikolai Spassky in a meeting in Vienna reviewed the latest condition of …

Syrian, Iranian Talks on Hydropower Cooperation

Syria and Iran reviewed cooperation in the field of hydropower during a meeting between Water Resources Minister, Hussein Arnous and Iranian Energy Minister Rez…