Calpine Pulls The Plug On Plants
Calpine CEO Peter Cartwright announced Jan. 16 that the San Jose, Calif.-based company will complete 27 gas-fired projects now under construction. It will continue to develop, but place on "hot standby," another 34 projects that will c
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Publication Date: 28 January , 2002
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DOE's Abraham to Recommend Yucca Mountain as Nuclear Waste Site
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has said he will recommend the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada as the place to store the country's nuclear waste. But Abraham's widely expected Jan. 10 announcement is by no
Publication Date: 11 January , 2002
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Senate Democrats Introduce New Energy Bill
Democrats in the Senate have produced a new version of a broad energy bill, but there are no signs of compromise on the issue that most divides them from Republicans, drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic Na
Publication Date: 06 December , 2001
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List (A-D) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (E-J) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (K-M) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (N) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (O-P) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (R-U) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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List (V-Z) - New U.S Powerplants Over 50 MW
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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Market Gyrations Make Hitting Targets for Skilled Crafts an Art
The industry’s ability to field a skilled craft force traditionally has been challenged by construction’s seasonality, cyclicality and hard work. But trying to hit the bull’s eye in demand h
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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Power Reaches High Plateau
Since 1998, the U.S. has experienced an unprecedented and largely unexpected boom in new powerplant construction. Between 1999 and 2001, about 83,000 Mw of new capacity has come on line, adding nearly 10%
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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Risk-Sharing Returns to Contracts and Rearranges Market Priorities
What a difference six months makes. Powerplant contractors are being choosier about what terms they will work under and on many projects are sharing the risks of cost overruns with owners through target pr
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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Shortage of Qualified Contractors Opens Doors for New Contenders
In response to the abrupt halt to nearly all construction in the microelectronics market, a contractor long successful in that industry recently polled professional staffers about prior work experience. He
Publication Date: 03 December , 2001
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EPA Delays Powerplant Plan
EPA had been expected to release its new source review plan in mid-August, but on Aug. 14, Administrator Christie Whitman said the agency would would hold off until the fall. She says EPA will release new source recommendations with a broader Cl
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Publication Date: 27 August , 2001
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Equipment Added To Clean Emissions Produces Acid Plume
Testing was scheduled to begin Aug. 16 at an Ohio powerplant that has been emitting an acid cloud that descends on the town of Cheshire like a fog.
Publication Date: 20 August , 2001
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New Reclamation Chief Sees Role For Construction
After a 34-year-career at the Bureau of Reclamation, John W. Keys was happily retired in Moab, Utah, when one day last summer the phone rang. The caller, whom Keys identifies as "a friend of Reclamati
Publication Date: 06 August , 2001
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Q&A With John Keys
John W. Keys III was sworn in July 17 as head of the Interior Dept.'s Bureau of Reclamation. On July 25, Keys was interviewed in his office at Interior's main building in Washington, D.C., by Tom Ichniowski, ENR's Washington bureau chief. Excerp
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Publication Date: 06 August , 2001
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North Sea Platform is Refloated, Removed and, Hopefully, Reused
After producing 200 million barrels of oil from beneath the North Sea over 17 years, the 110,000-tonne Maureen Alpha platform was removed from the bed, in late June, and refloated in a 60-hour operation, t
Publication Date: 09 July , 2001
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EPA Issues Radiation, Groundwater Standards for Yucca Mountain
The Environmental Protection Agency has set limits on how much radiation can be emitted from groundwater, air and soil at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository site in Nevada. The Dept. of E
Publication Date: 06 June , 2001
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Bush Energy Plan On Front Burner
With the May 17 release of President Bush’s task force report on energy policy, the issue has moved to the front burner. Bush moved quickly to implement some of the panel’s 105 recommendations, a
Publication Date: 28 May , 2001
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Coal is Returning To Favor as Electric Generation Fuel
A drumfire of recent project announcements has anticipated the energy-policy task force’s call for more reliance on coal for powerplant fuel. Shaking off two decades of bad press, the long-time standa
Publication Date: 28 May , 2001
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Bush Energy Plan Aims for More Powerplants, Other Infrastructure
The national energy policy laid out by President Bush's task force seeks to boost domestic production but also promote conservation, and improve and expand what it says is an aging infrastructure of powerp
Publication Date: 17 May , 2001
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Cost Estimate Climbs 26% for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site
A new Dept. of Energy report projects that the cost of the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear waste repository will be about $57.5 billion, up 26% from a 1998 estimate. The DOE report, released May 4, says that
Publication Date: 07 May , 2001
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Huge Projects Under Way To Bring Water To Egyptian Desert
In egypt’s remote desert near Sudan, a fleet of floating pontoons is drilling, blasting and excavating a canal nearly 50 meters into Lake Nasser’s rock bed to feed one of the world’s biggest
Publication Date: 01 May , 2001
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Senate Panel Votes to Repeal Public Utility Law
The Senate banking committee has approved legislation to repeal the New Deal-era Public Utility Holding Company Act and shift oversight of utility companies from the Securities and Exchange Commission to t
Publication Date: 25 April , 2001
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Utilities Consider New Nukes
Dominion resources Inc. and exelon Corp. are apparently at the head of the line for construction of the first new commercial nuclear reactors in a quarter century. Amid spreading concerns about power relia
Publication Date: 23 April , 2001
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DOE Eases Clinton's Proposed Air Conditioning Efficiency Standard
The Bush administration has issued new energy-efficiency standards for residential air conditioners and heat pumps that are less ambitious than a regulation proposed by the Clinton administration, but stil
Publication Date: 13 April , 2001
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Legionnaires' Disease Strikes Ford
About 2,500 employees returned to work last week at a Ford Motor Co. engine parts plant near Cleveland. It was shut down for five days due to a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease.
Publication Date: 26 March , 2001
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Nevada, California Face Up To Crisis
Developments unfolded quickly in the West as California edged toward a takeover of its investor-owned transmission grid and creation of a new agency to finance powerplant construction and upgrades. In Neva
Publication Date: 05 March , 2001
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State May Buy Transmission Lines from California Utilities
Reaction was muted to a package of proposals billed as "the framework of a recovery plan for California’s investor-owned utilities" announced Feb. 16 by Gov. Gray Davis (D). Utilities took a
Publication Date: 26 February , 2001
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California Pledges to Cut Red Tape
Standing in front of a powerplant nearing completion, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) on Feb. 8 unveiled a program to speed up permitting and construction in his power-starved state and named an energy cons
Publication Date: 19 February , 2001
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California Acts To Conserve And Broker Sale Of Electricity
As california acts to calm the power market that has sent rolling blackouts across the state and shock waves across the country, the program taking shape promises to involve the state deeply in the power industry for years to come. But the rescu
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Publication Date: 12 February , 2001
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FERC Chairman Again Says No To California Rate Caps
Publication Date: 09 February , 2001
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Senate Approves Pipeline Safety Bill
Despite the objections of environmental groups, the Senate passed legislation that its supporters say will tighten pipeline safety. The measure, which was approved on Feb. 8 by a 98-0 vote, is similar to a
Publication Date: 09 February , 2001
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California Seeks Answers in Dark
As California moves to stabilize the state's electricity market, a clear picture of that market's future shape may not emerge for weeks or longer. This month's blackouts–the first ones forced since Ca
Publication Date: 29 January , 2001
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Bush Administration: Abraham, Choice for DOE, Calls California Power Problem 'Urgent Priority'
President-elect Bush's choice as Energy Secretary, ex-Senator Spencer Abraham was confirmed for the post by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee just hours after his Jan. 18 confirmation heari
Publication Date: 18 January , 2001
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California Orders Rolling Blackouts
Dramatically illustrating the gap between California's demand for electricity and its generating capacity, the state on Wednesday ordered long-threatened mandatory rolling blackouts for the first time sinc
Publication Date: 18 January , 2001
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Dam Commission's Report Draws Broad Support
The Nov. 16 release in London of the final report of the World Commision on Dams was greeted with expressions of support from a wide spectrum of stakeholders in the dam construction markets. Construction c
Publication Date: 17 November , 2000
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11th-Hour Attempt Launched to Salvage Pipeline Safety Bill
As the 106th Congress neared an end, bipartisan discussions were going on to see if a pipeline-safety bill could be passed before lawmakers left town. But the effort faces an uphill road. On Oct, 10, House
Publication Date: 18 October , 2000
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Pipeline Safety Bill Dead for Year, Shuster Says
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) says legislation to make pipelines safer is dead for this year. Shuster had attempted to have the House approve a safety bill
Publication Date: 18 October , 2000
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Developer Closes Financing on $7.8–Billion Turbine Purchase
In a deal highlighting power developers' bullish outlook on the growth of the U.S. market, Bethesda, Md.-based PG&E National Energy Group has announced a plan to purchase 50 turbines at a cost of nearl
Publication Date: 09 October , 2000
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U.S. Safety Officials Seek Funds For More Inspections and Repairs
A public-private task force of dam safety experts now estimates that $40 billion is needed to repair and upgrade U.S. structures. That has prompted its parent organization, the Association of State Dam Sa
Publication Date: 09 October , 2000
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Big Projects Targeted for Review
International dambuilders were stunned in 1997 by the World Bank's brokering of a worldwide $10-million effort to provide the first "holistic" review of the megapr
Publication Date: 25 September, 2000
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Senate Approves Pipeline Safety Bill
Spurred by a fatal pipeline explosion last month, the Senate has approved legislation that would tighten up regulatory and testing requirements for pipeline operators and sharply raise penalties for violat
Publication Date: 08 September, 2000
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Demand Comforts Developers Despite Western Rate Hikes
An extended period of unstable electricity prices in the West has politicians scrambling to ease the pain of customers whose rates have doubled and tripled. But independent generation developers, undaunted
Publication Date: 28 August , 2000
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