The controversial 210-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Misamis Oriental would formally operate on Monday with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo scheduled to lead the inauguration rites, company officials said.
The $305-million power plant, built by German energy firm STEAG on a 55.42-hectare property inside the Phividec Industrial Estate in Villanueva town, is expected to provide 15 percent [...]
Michigan is exploring ways to grow its alternative energy industry and provide a boost to economic development, but coal-fired power plants are expected to produce most of the state’s electricity through at least 2030.
The rest of Michigan’s electrical power comes mostly from nuclear power plants or natural gas- or oil-fired power plants. A very small [...]
A coal-to-oil plant proposed in Schuylkill County is expected to create 150 jobs and 1,000 construction positions. But some residents are worried about environmental problems from waste the plant will produce.
“I know there’s going to be enormous amounts of slag and I don’t know how they’re going to get rid of it,” Mahanoy Township supervisors [...]
The government has transferred nearly 120 million pounds of depleted uranium from a processing plant in Tennessee to a southern Ohio facility, three years ahead of schedule and within budget.
The uranium hexafluoride was left over from the government’s uranium enrichment process for nuclear weapons and fuel at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Operations ended there [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy has removed some 118 million pounds of uranium hexafluoride from its reservation in Oak Ridge three years ahead of the mandated deadline from the state and within budget.
The uranium compounds were left over from the government’s uranium enrichment process for nuclear weapons and fuel at Oak Ridge. Operations were ended [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy formally announced Friday that salt domes in Richton are the preferred site to expand the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve.
“As an inland site, Richton will have less vulnerability to hurricane impacts and will be connected by pipeline to the Capline pipeline system and to refiners and marine facilities in Pascagoula for [...]
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said on Friday that a Mississippi site has been chosen as the preferred alternative to expand the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to 1 billion barrels.
“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a national asset that can be used in cases of severe disruption supply. As our nation’s [...]
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Xcel Energy next week will announce an ambitious $2 million research partnership to use hydrogen for storing wind electricity.
The ground-breaking technology will use wind power to separate hydrogen from water and store that hydrogen in special containers so it can be used later to generate electricity.
Scientists say the stored [...]
Russia will carry over 300 kilos of enriched uranium from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
The date of the airlift can not be released because of the security reasons, a nuclear official in Germany noticed saying 200 kg of highly-enriched uranium and 100 kg [...]
Despite being the nation’s largest coal producer, Wyoming failed to win a share of $1 billion in federal subsidies for advanced, coal-based power projects.
Wyoming energy officials say they are not surprised, noting that qualification for the investment tax credits is based on a general standard that penalizes Western sub-bituminous coal.
Steve Waddington, executive director of the [...]
