Coal-Fired Generation Draws New Interest
In the second round, DOE will provide about $280 million to assist development of coal gasification and other breakthrough technologies that will continue coal’s role as the leading fuel source for electricity generation.
Publication Date: 15 March , 2004
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Fairwinds LNG Project Blown Away in Maine Vote
Partners TransCanada PipeLines and ConocoPhillips suspended plans to build an LNG terminal in Harpswell, Maine, after the town residents voted March 9 against leasing town-owned land at a former naval fuel
Publication Date: 15 March , 2004
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Domenici May Try to Attach Slimmed-Down Energy Bill to TEA-21 Reauthorization
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) may seek to add a revised energy bill to the transportation reauthorization measure now being debated in the chamber, an aide s
Publication Date: 06 February , 2004
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Domenici To Cut Size of Energy Bill
In an effort to revive the stalled energy bill, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) says he plans to reduce the $30-billion package significantly. In a Feb. 2 stat
Publication Date: 04 February , 2004
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Algeria Blast Has Officials Rethinking LNG Safety
A deadly explosion at a liquefied natural gas liquefaction plant in Skikda, Algeria, Jan. 19 has intensified debate over safety at the growing number of LNG terminals in the U.S. The accident, which killed
Publication Date: 30 January , 2004
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Crowd Forms at Alaska Gas Pipe Start Line
Developers have submitted two applications to Alaska to build pipelines to deliver natural gas from the North Slope to the contiguous 48 states.
Publication Date: 26 January , 2004
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Federal Court Overturns DOE Air-Conditioner Standard
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Bush administration acted illegally in 2002 when it issued energy efficiency standards for central air conditioners that were weaker than those developed by the C
Publication Date: 16 January , 2004
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Alyeska System Upgrade Set To Kick Off in Early March
After 28 years of continuous operation, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System plans to start a $300-million makeover this year. The pipeline’s operator has completed preliminary engineering and submitted a
Publication Date: 12 January , 2004
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Day in Court Nears for Nevada's Yucca Mountain Challenges
Oral arguments are slated Jan. 14 in a federal appeals court for Nevada's six-pronged challenge to the planned underground nuclear waste depository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
Publication Date: 29 December , 2003
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U.K. Approves Export Credits for BTC Pipeline
The U.K.'s official export credit agency has received government approval to underwrite up to $150 million of work by British firms on the $3.4 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipe from the Caspian Sea to
Publication Date: 18 December , 2003
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South Korean Sub Quits Iraq Job After Killings
About 60 employees of a South Korean electrical subcontractor on a Washington Group International project are returning home from Iraq after two of their coworkers died and two others were wounded in an am
Publication Date: 08 December , 2003
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$30-Billion Energy Bill Has Something for All
To do the deal, GOP lawmakers irked Democrats by cutting them out of drafting many key sections. But that strategy brought the political prize near. House and Senate conferees approved the voluminous measure Nov. 17 after rejecting more than a d
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Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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U.S. Wants a Smarter Grid To Avoid Another Blackout
While anticipating the Nov. 19 report on the causes of the Aug. 14 Northeast blackout, electric transmission experts have continued searching for ways to make the nation’s transmission system "sm
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Energy Bill Blocked in Senate, At Least for Now
An unusual Senate coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans has mustered enough votes to block a massive energy bill--at least for the time being. In a procedural vote on Nov. 21, propone
Publication Date: 21 November , 2003
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Report Says Blackout was Avoidable
In an initial report completed by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, officials found that employees of FirstEnergy Corp., Akron., were not aware of problems with three high-voltage transmission lines
Publication Date: 20 November , 2003
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Conferees Agree on Energy Bill; Drop Ethanol "Fix" for Highway Fund
House and Senate negotiators approved a wide-ranging energy bill after rejecting more than a dozen proposed amendments from Democrats, sending the measure to the House floor. The conference agreement, clea
Publication Date: 18 November , 2003
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GOP Hopes to Push Energy Bill Through by Weekend
Republican leaders hope to overcome Democratic objections and move their agreement on energy legislation through a House-Senate conference on Nov. 17 and then through final congressional approval by the en
Publication Date: 17 November , 2003
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Duke Power Spending Big In Emissions Control Effort
A North Carolina utility is spending nearly $2 billion to clean its emissions. A federally driven $450-million selective catalytic reduction project, the largest in the U.S., is now nearing completion and
Publication Date: 10 November , 2003
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Generators Move to Arizona From Italy, Through Mexico
Publication Date: 10 November , 2003
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$3.6-Billion Azerbaijan-Turkey Oil Pipeline Gets World Bank Aid
The World Bank Group's International Finance Corp. has approved up to $250 million in loans to help build a controversial $3.6-billion oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey. The IFC's board on Nov. 4
Publication Date: 06 November , 2003
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Permit Applications Open Path to Three New Reactors
Construction of the first new U.S. nuclear reactor project in almost 30 years could result from steps taken by three companies since Sept. 15. Entergy Corp. on Oct. 21 applied for early approval of a nucle
Publication Date: 03 November , 2003
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Blackout Investigators To Issue Interim Report Within Two Weeks
The joint U.S.-Canadian task force investigating the Aug. 14 Northeast blackout will issue an interim report within two weeks with a large amount of technical information about the causes of the giant powe
Publication Date: 27 October , 2003
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Energy Bill Conference Postponed Again, Ethanol Tax, Other Issues Not Settled
Citing several still-unresolved provisions, a disappointed Sen. Pete Domenici again has put off a House-Senate conference committee meeting on a broad-based energy bill.
Publication Date: 27 October , 2003
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Tax Issues Stall Energy Bill
The lead Republican negotiators working on an omnibus energy bill have put off a final compromise version of the legislation for several days because tax provisions remain unresolved. One of those provisio
Publication Date: 21 October , 2003
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Company Plans New Storage For Spent Fuel Rods
Raleigh, N.C.-based Progress Energy, which owns four nuclear powerplants in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, is shifting away from shipping spent fuel rods for centralized storage, to constructi
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Dam Owner's Deal Will Reopen Penobscot River
In what it called a "ground breaking" deal, PPL Corp., Allentown, Pa., has agreed with a coalition of government agencies and private groups to remove or close down three hydroelectric plants totaling 18 M
Publication Date: 07 October , 2003
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Tidal Technology Turns Corner With New Machines in Europe
It’s a busy time for a new generation of underwater devices capturing energy from flowing tidal currents. The first machine to be hooked up to a grid is due to begin generating electricity any day now
Publication Date: 06 October , 2003
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Corps of Engineers Orders Electrical Facilities Construction
The Corps issued task orders totaling $278 million on three "indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity" (IDIQ) contracts to Washington Group International, Boise; Fluor Intercontinental, Greenville, S.C., and Perini Corp., Framingham, Mass., for
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Publication Date: 03 October , 2003
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EPRI Study Tags Reactive Power Shortage as Blackout Cause
A shortage of reactive power was a key cause of the Aug. 14 blackout in the Northeast U.S. and Canada, says a report by the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif., commissioned by FirstEnergy
Publication Date: 29 September, 2003
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New Networks Are Proposed To Form Small Power Islands
An innovative concept of networked distributed generation sources that can create small power "islands" promises to improve reliability for the entire power system and allow utilities to defer ne
Publication Date: 29 September, 2003
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$200-Million Investment Pledged for Buried Cable
Hoping to expedite approvals, a New York-based developer has proposed to bury most of a 130-mile-long power cable that would bring 2,000 Mw of power into one of the most congested areas in the country. The
Publication Date: 22 September, 2003
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Financing Releases California Power Link to Start Construction
Reston, Va..-based Trans-Elect Inc.'s New Transmission Development Co. unit has secured funding for construction of a third transmission line on an 84-mile leg of Path 15 in central California. The project will add critically needed capacity on
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Publication Date: 18 September, 2003
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Loan Approved for $1.6-Billion Peru Natural Gas Project
The IDB's board of executive directors cleared the financial aid for the Camisea project on Sept. 10, but the board member from the U.S., Jose A. Fourquet, abstained. Fourquet cited several reasons for his abstention, including "indications that
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Publication Date: 12 September, 2003
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Compact, Quiet Power Units Appeal to Hospitality Market
Distributed generation systems using fuel cells is looking a lot more attractive to hotel chains after the Northeast blackout forced some guests to sleep on the street. Government grants are bringing the
Publication Date: 08 September, 2003
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Involving Stakeholders Helps Agency to Find Best Option
Like most parts of the country, the Pacific Northwest’s power transmission system is stretched to its limits. To deal with it, the Bonneville Power Administration is planning to expand the grid by as
Publication Date: 08 September, 2003
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Navy Prepares Demonstration Of Ocean Generation Plant
Given the right sea conditions, a demonstration model of a wave-energy modular electricity-generating system could be installed off Hawaii this month or next.
Publication Date: 08 September, 2003
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Energy Conference Opens; Domenici Rejects Separate Electricity Bill
As congressional negotiators launched a conference to work out differences on energy legislation, the lead Senate conferee said he opposed splitting off electricity provisions and passing them separately.
Publication Date: 05 September, 2003
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Cash-Starved Grid Will Need Investment
Whatever the official investigations eventually conclude, enhanced investment in the North American transmission system will have to be a part of the answer to the Aug. 14 blackout. Despite differing views
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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Controversial Cable Energized As States and Feds Fight On
The fierce political fight over an underwater power cable between New Haven, Conn., and Shoreham, N.Y., is shaping up as a symbol of the Bush administration’s push to assert more federal authority ove
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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Deadly Crane Accident Kills Three
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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In Montana, Power Dergulation Has Not Worked as Expected
Publication Date: 01 September, 2003
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Ex-Im Bank Rejects Aid Application for Peru Gas Project
Environmental groups oppose the project, contending it would harm the Amazon forest, a reserve for indigenous people, and a reserve for marine species.
Publication Date: 29 August , 2003
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Battles for Future Power Shape Up in Blackout's Wake
Rapid changes in technology, the economy and society have outpaced the rate of change in the U.S. electricity industry and especially in the transmission grid. Now, that industry has moved to center stage.
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - news
The question was a reflex: Is it terror? The power failure at the start of rush hour put tens of millions of people in the U.S. and Canada on edge. Radio and TV news reports soon allayed the fears, conveyi
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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New Alaska Line Has A Little of Everything
Transmission lines often present challenges relating to site conditions, but few can match those encountered in Alaska for construction of a new 97-mile, 230-kv line through parts of Fairbanks, across 60 m
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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Reliability Standards Fail Test And Investigators Ask Why
A system designed after an unprecedented 1965 blackout to assure electric reliability worked reasonably well for 37 years. On Aug. 14, it failed. As the lights came back on, officials already were probing
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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Systemic Shock
The question was a reflex: Is it terror? The power failure at the start of rush hour put tens of millions of people in the U.S. and Canada on edge. Radio and TV news reports soon allayed the fears, conveyi
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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Users Want More Control Over Reliability and Cost of Power
With a population of 22,000 people, Geneva, Ill., is a typical Midwestern suburb. But inside city hall, officials are clamoring for more power–the electrical kind–and they have succeeded. Geneva
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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When the NorthEast Power Grid Trips, Interlinked Networks Stumble As Well
The blackout that knocked out powerplants in six states and Ontario also triggered major disruptions in large segments of the transportation and water and wastewater treatment systems. Grounded planes in C
Publication Date: 25 August , 2003
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Iraqi Oil Minister Details Plans
Upstream and midstream facilities will get top priority in efforts by coalition and Iraqi authorities to reconstruct the Mideast country's oil and gas infrastructure. Under a memorandum of understanding si
Publication Date: 11 August , 2003
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Iraqi Oil Minister Details Plans
The eastern half of the U.S. and Canada scrambled to repower August 15, the day after the largest blackout in North American history left approximately 50 million people in the dark.
Publication Date: 11 August , 2003
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At Olivenhain, 318-ft-tall RCC Impoundment Is Ready to Fill
In a time when new dams in environmentally conscious California are as rare as hen’s teeth, the state is about to welcome a record-setter. Twenty-seven miles north of San Diego, the tallest roller com
Publication Date: 04 August , 2003
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Containment Dome Falls To Beautification Program
Nearly 20 years after work stopped on the second unit containment dome of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear powerplant, officials have finally ordered the demolition of the rusting steel structure. Their action
Publication Date: 04 August , 2003
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Senate Re-Approves Last Year's Energy Bill, to Get to House Conference
Senate Republicans have halted work on a new omnibus energy bill and instead agreed to adopt the version the chamber passed last year, when Democrats were in control. After the Senate GOP leadership punted
Publication Date: 01 August , 2003
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Steel Vault Over Chernobyl's Unit 4 Will Cost $250 Million
Ukraine's state-owned power utility Energoatom plans to award a design-build contract for a radioactive containment system at the destroyed Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant later this year. To
Publication Date: 28 July , 2003
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Oil Industry Push Has Maine Contractor Looking Far Afield
Now, as work on the oil exploration rigs nears successful completion, Cianbro Corp. and the City of Portland, whose economy gained a boost from the work, are looking for more maritime-related business opportunities.
Publication Date: 21 July , 2003
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First Wave-Generated Power Facility Set for 2004 Opening
Officials of Seattle-based AquaEnergy Group Ltd., an alternative energy company, say the 1-MW system is slated to produce power by mid-2004 from a site 3.2 miles off Makah Bay in Northwest Washington. It would be the world's first full-scale, in
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Publication Date: 23 June , 2003
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Companies Vie For Lucrative Bahamas-Florida LNG Route
Three energy companies planning to build pipelines to move liquefied natural gas from the Bahamas to Florida are racing for approvals before one of them is squeezed out. AES Corp., El Paso Corp. and Tracte
Publication Date: 02 June , 2003
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - news
Two 230-kv and 115-kv power lines strung across the Mississippi at Chalmette, just below the city, were only 193 ft above the water at spring flood stage. Entergy’s 40-year-old Army Corps of Engineers permit said it had to provide 213-ft cl
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Publication Date: 12 May , 2003
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Bringing Baghdad Back To Life
Baghdad is struggling to advance from war to reconstruction. Coalition forces and Iraqi citizens are trying to solve the delicate calculus that transforms conquest and occupation into a sustainable liberat
Publication Date: 28 April , 2003
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