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March 14- New York utility regulators on Thursday approved a proposal to seek 1,350 megawatts of generation or transmission later this month to keep the power grid reliable in case Entergy Corp's Indian Point nuclear power plant shuts.
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One of China's largest private companies is quietly rolling out plans to establish a network of natural gas fueling stations for trucks along U.S. highways.
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KABUL, March 14- Afghanistan must make improving its power infrastructure a top priority to exploit vast mineral deposits and attract more foreign investors, the head of the World Bank said Thursday. Only a quarter of Afghanistan's 30 million people currently have access to the power grid, which is for the most part supplied by its neighbours such as Uzbekistan.
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LONDON, March 14- The benefit of a significant investment in a flat-lining British economy is likely to trump cost concerns over plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Britain will probably be the first industrialised country to start building a new nuclear power plant since the Fukushima disaster two years ago.
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LOS ANGELES, March 14- ENN Group Co Ltd, one of China's largest private companies, is quietly rolling out plans to establish a network of natural gas fueling stations for trucks along U.S. highways.
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The projects, to be built mostly on federal lands in California and Nevada but funded privately, were announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at a press conference in San Francisco.
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The projects, announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at a press conference in San Francisco, include NextEra Energy Inc's 750- megawatt McCoy Solar Energy Project near Blythe, California. The remaining two projects include the 150- megawatt Desert Harvest Solar Farm proposed by EDF Renewable Energy and the 200 MW Searchlight Wind Energy Project.
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March 11- U.S. nuclear regulators on Monday rejected an appeal by UniStar, a unit of French power company Electricite de France, against a decision barring it from building a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland.
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March 11- U.S. power company Dominion Resources Inc said on Monday it had struck a deal to sell three power plants- one in Massachusetts and two in Illinois- to funds controlled by private equity firm Energy Capital Partners.
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*Italy energy storage market to be worth 3 bln euros in 2020- BIP. Italy has some of the highest power prices in Europe and is looking at how to cut costs to allow its businesses to compete. "Germany and Italy will be explosive markets for residential storage and big energy users are also starting to show an interest.
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*Italy energy storage market to be worth 3 bln euros in 2020- BIP. Italy has some of the highest power prices in Europe and is looking at how to cut costs to allow its businesses to compete. "Germany and Italy will be explosive markets for residential storage and big energy users are also starting to show an interest.
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March 7- More than one-third of U.S. nuclear power plants suffered safety-related incidents over the past three years, and nuclear regulators and plant operators need to improve inspections to prevent such events, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report on Thursday.
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March 7- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducted 14 special inspections at nuclear power plants in 2012 to investigate safety-related events, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report on Thursday.
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March 6- More than 120,000 homes and businesses were without power on Wednesday morning, mostly in Virginia and West Virginia, as a snowstorm hit the U.S. The following lists some of the hardest-hit utilities, plus numbers of homes and businesses lacking power.
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*Morocco hopes to export energy to Europe. RABAT, March 6- In a couple of years, rows of gleaming solar panels are expected to stretch across the desert outside Morocco's southern city of Ouarzazate, part of the country's plans to meet its energy deficit with power from the sun and wind.
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*EU urging Bulgaria to stamp out graft, observe rule of law. SOFIA, March 6- In a rundown area on the edge of Bulgaria's capital, where violent protests over power prices brought down the government last month, some residents are risking their lives and their neighbours' wrath to steal electricity.
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*Low-margin mines at risk if drop below $80/ mt. "I think that situation will arrive if physical prices in Europe or South Africa fall below $80," he added. April deliveries of South African coal from the port of Richards Bay have dropped to $84 a tonne, while April deliveries to Amsterdam- Rotterdam- Antwerp are down to $86.50 a tonne on the globalCOAL trading platform.
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VIENNA, March 4- Global nuclear energy capacity increased again in 2012- albeit only slightly- after a drop the previous year following Japan's Fukushima disaster, the U.N. atomic agency chief said on Monday.
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March 1- Texas power grid operator said Friday the amount of electricity available to serve consumers will be tight again this summer as projected demand grows faster than generation is being built to serve those needs.
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March 1- About 24,400 megawatts of power capacity at U.S. nuclear power plants is expected to be offline at the peak of the 2013 spring refueling season, down more than 10 percent from a year earlier, data from a Reuters survey showed.