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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.
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March 1- The power grid operator for most of Texas said on Friday the amount of electricity available to serve consumer demand will be tight again this summer.
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HOUSTON, Feb 28- Southern California Edison, operator of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in California, and its regulators are discussing ways the utility can avoid a lengthy public airing of problems that led to a year-long shutdown of the twin reactors.
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GENEVA, Feb 28- People in the area worst affected by Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident two years ago have a slightly higher risk of developing certain cancers, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. It was the worst nuclear accident since a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine in 1986..
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LONDON, Feb 28- Royal Dutch/Shell believes a policy-led shift to gas, carbon capture and nuclear power could keep a lid on climate change into the 22nd century while a more free market approach would result in carbon emissions some 25 percent higher.
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*China's first move into European nuclear seen possible in UK. LONDON, Feb 27- China could be on the cusp of one of its most sensitive European investments as costly plans for new nuclear reactors in Britain open the door to Chinese state-run firms.