Air Force Seeks Secure Domestic Source for Fuel - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Proposals are due on May 2 for development of a plant on a Montana air base to convert coal into synthetic fuel. The U.S. Air Force is offering 700 acres of underutilized land on Malmstrom Air Force Base u
Publication Date: 23 April , 2008
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New $30-Billion Proposal Competes To Deliver Gas - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Two oil and gas producers on Alaska’s North Slope have joined the race to build a natural-gas pipeline to the contiguous U.S. On April 8, BP PLC and ConocoPhillips Co. announced plans to build &ldquo
Publication Date: 23 April , 2008
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New Plant Applications Surge Toward Expected Total of 19 - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Asurge in applications for nuclear powerplant construction and operating licenses (COLs) has begun at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Nine applications have been submitted since July, and NRC expects 10
Publication Date: 23 April , 2008
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World Energy Council Outlines Congo Hydropower Scheme- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The World Energy Council detailed plans to expedite construction of the world’s biggest hydro complex, the $80-billion Grand Inga scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The not-for-profit
Publication Date: 21 April , 2008
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Shaw and Westinghouse Negotiating for Three Sites - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Shaw Group and Westinghouse are negotiating with three utilities to construct nuclear powerplants. Two of the utilities applied for combined construction and operating licenses at the end of March. The thi
Publication Date: 09 April , 2008
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Israel Seeks Bidders For $700-Million Tender - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In an effort to sharply increase the use of renewable energy in the next decade, Israel has issued a prequalifying tender for what will be one of the world’s largest solar power projects. The countr
Publication Date: 02 April , 2008
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$20-Billion Investment Will Move Oil-Sands Crude South - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The first of several proposed new pipelines to carry crude oil from Alberta to the U.S. will begin construction this spring after receiving a key U.S. approval this month.
Publication Date: 26 March , 2008
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Australian Well Taps Hot Rock In Possible Commercial First - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Brisbane, Australia-based Geodynamics Ltd. reached the target depth of 4,221 meters for Habanero 3 in the state of South Australia on Jan. 22 and completed the well on Feb. 5. “The Habanero 3 and the associated developments of the Cooper B
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Publication Date: 26 March , 2008
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Varied Approaches Wring New Power from Waters - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 19 March , 2008
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Deepwater Sites Are Opened In German North Sea Areas - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Germany is plunging into deep-water wind farms, now starting construction on a major North Sea grid connection. The 400-MW power line will serve the world’s largest deepwater turbine cluster, potenti
Publication Date: 05 March , 2008
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Sudden Drop in Wind Energy Finds Texas Ready To Act - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Quick reaction averted blackouts on the Texas grid last month, but the incident served as a reminder of the possible risks of relying too much on wind energy for electricity.
Publication Date: 05 March , 2008
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House Clears $17.6 Billion in Renewable Energy Tax Breaks - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The House has approved legislation to provide $17.6 billion in tax incentives for energy conservation and renewable power sources, but the 236-182 vote on Feb. 27 fell short of the two-thirds margin needed
Publication Date: 28 February , 2008
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$10 Billion of Projects Bring Natural Gas to Europe - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Two pipelines to ship natural gas to Europe are now moving into the engineering stage, while Italy’s newest liquefied-natural-gas terminal remains stalled by police investigations and regulatory snag
Publication Date: 27 February , 2008
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Arizona Utility Aims High for Solar Array - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 27 February , 2008
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New Orleans Gas Utility Rushes Line Replacement To Beat Corrosion Clock - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 27 February , 2008
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Uncertainty Over Carbon Has Coal Plants Stymied - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Prospects for a continuing boom in coal-plant construction in the U.S., considered bright as recently as 2006, are suffocating in a cloud of carbon-dioxide emissions. With public, regulatory and lender con
Publication Date: 27 February , 2008
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Alaska Pols Push Bills For Pipeline Accountability- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Both the Alaska state house and senate have introduced bills that would hold companies financially responsible for any oil and gas facility maintenance related to neglect. A spokesman for BP PLC, Anchorage
Publication Date: 26 February , 2008
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State-Federal Partnership To Make Hawaii a Model - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 20 February , 2008
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Looking To Charge Customers For Work Sooner, Not Later- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 13 February , 2008
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Cancellation, Postponement Mark Nuclear Sector’s Revival - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 06 February , 2008
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DOE Drops Clean-Coal Plant To Focus on Carbon Capture - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 06 February , 2008
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Expansion by Producers Stretches Alberta Workforce - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 06 February , 2008
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Utilities Want to Charge Ratepayers Sooner, Not Later - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
When Cleco Corp., a small utility in Louisiana, needed to build a new coal-fired powerplant to help lessen its dependence on natural gas, there was a problem. The unit it wanted to construct was estimated
Publication Date: 05 February , 2008
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Suncor Expansion To Stretch Labor Force - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Before Suncor Energy announced a $20.6-billion expansion to its oilsands project in northern Alberta, it had already started scoping out its future construction labor force.
Publication Date: 04 February , 2008
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Energy Dept. Shifts Focus to Carbon Capture from FutureGen Program - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Citing soaring cost and the advances in electricity generation technology in recent years, the U.S. Dept. of Energy has withdrawn its support from the FutureGen Alliance, the nonprofit public-private partn
Publication Date: 31 January , 2008
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U.K. Prepares To Permit New Fleet of Reactors - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 16 January , 2008
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British Govt. Clears a Path For Next Nuclear Generation - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The British government laid the ground work for a new generation of nuclear power plants on January 10 when it outlined new legislation to attract investors.
Publication Date: 10 January , 2008
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$750-Million Contract Boosts Gulf Hurricane Cleanup Work - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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‘Landmark’ License Issued for Wave-Energy Project - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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Alaska Likes TransCanada’s Proposal for Prudhoe Gas Line - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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American Firm Carefully Clears Bombed-Out Bridge - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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Longest, Most Powerful Line Will Apply New Technology - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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Longest, Most Powerful Line Will Apply New Technology - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 09 January , 2008
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New Plants Will Sprout from Growing Flow of Applications - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
New nuclear units will be the focus of the power industry in 2008, with construction on some infrastructure beginning next year, more applications submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and firm co
Publication Date: 27 December , 2007
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North America's Largest PV Powerplant in Service - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
It may be wintertime, but the sun still shines bright in Southern Nevada where a new $100-million, 14-MW solar power plant finished on Monday, Dec. 17, at Nellis Air Force. The photovoltaic system will pro
Publication Date: 21 December , 2007
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Bush Signs 'Green' Energy Bill - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
President Bush has signed into law a major energy bill that emphasizes conservation after the Senate made the bill more palatable to Republicans. The bill's enactment came Dec. 19, one day after the House
Publication Date: 19 December , 2007
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GLOBAL SOURCEBOOK 2007: Despite Climate Change Fears, China And India Focus on Coal - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 19 December , 2007
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GLOBAL SOURCEBOOK 2007: Growing Demand in Developing World Boosts Petroleum Market - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 19 December , 2007
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Pemex Delays Decision On Platform Demolition- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
U.S. contractors say they have been in protracted negotiations about the demolition or removal of a damaged oil platform in the Bay of Campeche where 23 workers have died. But Petróleos Mexicanos (P
Publication Date: 13 December , 2007
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House-Passed Energy Bill Stalled in Senate - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A sweeping House-passed energy bill, which would boost fuel-economy standards for cars and set stricter efficiency standards for vehicles and buildings, has quickly run into a roadblock in the Senate.
Publication Date: 07 December , 2007
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Alaska Gas-Line Bids Bring Some Surprises at Opening - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Surprises abounded in the six proposals to build Alaska’s massive gas pipeline. One bidder was from China; another was a North Slope producer with an estimate far higher than any yet for the line&rsq
Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Changing Economics Improve Plasma Technology’s Outlook - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Orders are piling up for a technology that creates energy from garbage, with two new projects announced in recent months and several more under consideration. Plasma gasification breaks waste into molecula
Publication Date: 05 December , 2007
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Pols Agree on Auto Mileage; Energy Package Not Yet Final - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After congressional negotiators have struck a deal that would require cars to meet tougher fuel economy standards by 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she plans to bring an energy bill to the floor for
Publication Date: 03 December , 2007
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Pelosi Sees 'Substantial Progress' in Energy Bill Talks - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After weeks of little evident movement in Congress to reconcile differing House and Senate energy bills, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there has been "significant progress" and said she hopes that congre
Publication Date: 27 November , 2007
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Demonstration Set for Carbon Capture on Commercial Scale - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Commercial scale carbon-dioxide capture is the goal of a demonstration project planned for a Texas coal-fired powerplant. In a quarterly report, its owner calls it one of “the largest carbon-capture
Publication Date: 21 November , 2007
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Offshore Platform Skills Will Guide New Energy Design - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
By the end of 2008, construction could begin on the first U.S. offshore windfarm off Texas. Wind Energy Systems Technology, New Iberia, La., aims to provide 150 MW of wind power into Galveston as early as
Publication Date: 14 November , 2007
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Taum Sauk Replacement Will Be of Roller-Compacted Concrete - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Contractors are mobilized on a Missouri mountaintop, awaiting notice to proceed on reconstruction of a pumped-storage reservoir whose impoundment collapsed in December 2005. The roller-compacted concrete s
Publication Date: 14 November , 2007
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Contractors Named for Taum Sauk Reconstruction - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A pumped-storage reservoir in Missouri that collapsed in December 2005 could be back on line by the end of 2009 following selection of a contractor to reconstruct it.
Publication Date: 09 November , 2007
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Elegant Lifter Salvages Toppled Platforms in Gulf- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Elegant engineering is solving the sloppy problem of raising offshore oil and gas platforms swept by the 85-ft waves of hurricanes Ivan, Katrina and Rita to the Gulf of Mexico’s bottom.
Publication Date: 07 November , 2007
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Kansas Power Operator Will Challenge Air-Quality Decision - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
“We’re going to go meet with some legislators to try and figure it out,” says Steve Miller, spokesman for the Hays, Kan.-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp., a cooperative of six utility companies. Miller says the group also i
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Publication Date: 24 October , 2007
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Energy Dept. Designates First National Interest Corridors - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Federal authority will strengthen efforts to site critical electric transmission lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest. But the Energy Dept.’s first-ever designation of “national interest ele
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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S. F. Extension Cable Will Unplug Powerplant - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Plans for construction of a 53-mile-long extension cord for San Francisco’s electric system are moving toward a start possibly as early as next month following approval of the project by the San Fran
Publication Date: 08 October , 2007
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Two U.S. Suppliers Among Four in India Nuke Talks- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd., (NPCIL), the state-owned company spearheading India's nuclear power program, is holding discussions with four of the world’s top nuclear equipment suppliers for the
Publication Date: 08 October , 2007
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300-MW Array and More Planned for Florida, California - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
One of Florida’s largest electric utilities plans to produce power using the Sunshine State’s namesake beams at a new 300-MW solar thermal plant, larger than any single thermal solar array now
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Feds and Firms Find New Projects Daunting - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Four U.S. Air Force housing privatization projects are over budget, behind schedule and in trouble with lenders, with one developer forced earlier this month into state court receivership in Georgia. The p
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Oldest Nuke’s Towers Felled In U.K.’s Sellafield Complex- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Within a few minutes of each other on Sept. 29, two pairs of cooling towers at the world’s first nuclear powerplant disappeared from Sellafield’s skyline on the English coast. Their contro
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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FPL to Invest $2.4 Billion In Solar Power Generation - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A $2.4-billion investment in solar thermal power generation was announced Sept. 26 by FPL Group Inc. The Juno Beach, Fla.-based utility company plans to invest up to $1.5 billion in new solar thermal gener
Publication Date: 28 September, 2007
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Dutch Look Offshore For Innovative Hydro Scheme - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Dutch engineers are developing an electricity pumped-storage scheme that will use the North Sea as the upper reservoir, avoiding environmental objections to onshore dikes. After desktop studies convinced t
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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New Generation of Cable Will Boost Transmission Grid - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Testing for a new installation of second-generation high-temperature superconducting electric cable on New York’s Long Island is scheduled to start by the first week of October. The installation, a d
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Extra-High-Voltage Systems Moving Toward Construction - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Electric transmission line construction received a jolt with the Sept. 14 release of a feasibility study for a program to add 700 miles of 765-kV lines in the Midwest. The study, conducted by American Elec
Publication Date: 19 September, 2007
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