EDF Energy contracts with Jacobs Engineering for project management
Engineering group will support eight nuclear power plants, two technical centers in the United Kingdom. Read More »
Engineering group will support eight nuclear power plants, two technical centers in the United Kingdom. Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said yesterday it will increase oversight at Luminant Generation Co.’s nuclear plant near Glen Rose, Texas, due to security concerns. Read More »
FEMA has scheduled an emergency-preparedness exercise for the week of April 13 in Pennsylvania to assess the state’s disaster-preparedness ability in the event of an emergency at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Central Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River. Read More »
EV Energy Partners, LP (EVEP) recently announced that is has agreed to divest its 21 percent interest in Utica East Ohio, LLC to Utica Gas Services, LLC (a branch of Williams Partners, LP) for approximately $575 million. Read More »
Sanchez Energy Corp. recently released an updated version of the company’s investor presentation concerning its sale of non-core producing assets to Sanchez Production Partners. Read More »
Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. (TRER), a company that explores and targets heavy rare earths, recently announced that it has joined a subsidiary of AREVA in a uranium offtake agreement. Read More »
According to a recent announcement, Duke Energy has finalized the sale of its non-regulating Midwest Commercial Generation Business to Dynegy Inc. for $2.8 billion in cash. Read More »
Entergy said last week that Unit 3 of its Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York has returned to full service, transformed after a $50 million investment to replace, overhaul, upgrade and inspect hundreds of pieces of equipment that help keep the plant safe. Read More »
Nuclear Matters participated in a recent Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Energy 101 briefing in Columbus, Ohio, led by a former U.S. senator from Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln. The event highlighted the benefits of nuclear power to an audience containing approximately 40 Ohio legislators. Read More »
LINN Energy, LLC recently announced that it has signed a non-binding agreement with Quantum Energy Partners, a private capital investor, to finance future natural gas and oil developments and acquisitions. Read More »
Customers of New Hampshire-based Eversource Energy are expected to reap $300 million in savings as the result of the sale of 12 of the company's power plants. Read More »
GE recently announced that its new chief communications officer will be Deirdre Latour, as the man currently filling the position, Gary Sheffer, will retire at the end of 2015. Read More »
Spark Energy, Inc. announced Monday that it will be forming a new purchase and sale relationship with Entrust Energy, Inc. for the acquisition of approximately 33,500 customer contracts in the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) natural gas market in Northern California. Read More »
Westinghouse Electric Co. said on Thursday that 42 of its fuel assemblies will be loaded into Unit 3 at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant after two weeks of ongoing performance inspections. The fuel assemblies have been the recent subject of criticism from Russia, which alleged imported fuel assemblies could put the plant and its personnel at risk. Read More »
Entergy Louisiana, LLC, signed a five-year agreement this week to provide an additional 60 megawatts of electricity to power CF Industries’ expanding nitrogen facility in Donaldsonville, increasing its production capacity by over 40 percent. Read More »
Entergy Corp. said on Tuesday that Patrick Condon and Karen Puckett have been elected to the company's board of directors. Condon, who currently serves on the board of directors at Cloud Peak Energy and is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee, spent more than 30 years at Arthur Andersen LLP and nine years at Deloitte & Touche LLP before retiring in 2011. Read More »
HeadlineFluor Corp. Awarded Five-Year Contract with PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power PlantBodyThe Fluor Corporation, a global engineering and construction firm,, has been awarded a five-year operations and maintenance contract by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to serve as the company’s services supplier for the two-unit Diablo Canyon Power Plant in Avila Beach, California. Read More »
Lockheed Martin and Dominion Recources have teamed up to develop VirtuGrid, a new smart-grid innovation that detects power outages via remote technology, Lockheed said Thursday. Read More »