Hitachi Ltd. said it is merging Hitachi Canada Ltd. (HCL) and Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. (HCI) into one company, Hitachi Power Systems Canada Ltd., effective April 1.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted 2-1 on March 30 to grant temporary construction authority to Mississippi Power to continue with construction on the 582 MW Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) coal-fired power plant.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) will meet on March 30, 2012, to discuss and possibly take action on Mississippi Power Co.’s request for a temporary certificate to continue work on the 582 MW Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) project.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission asked Mississippi Power and an environmental group to submit proposals on how to proceed with the Plant Ratcliffe coal-fired power plant in Kemper County.

Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon electric power projects, said it has entered into an agreement with National Grid and Petrofac to seek funding for the development of a low-carbon power plant, including full-chain, commercial-scale carbon capture and storage, in the United Kingdom.

The Mississippi Supreme Court on March 15 reversed an approval for a Southern Co. $2.8 billion coal gasification project in Mississippi.

The Dendron Town Council in Virginia reaffirmed land-use changes for Old Dominion Electric Co-op’s (ODEC) plan to build a $5 billion coal-fired power plant.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has been awarded a contract to design and supply two spray dry absorber units and associated equipment for a coal-fired power plant in Colorado.

A judge ruled that a $2.8 billion, 895 MW coal-fired power plant cannot be built until there is an environmental review.

American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) has signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of wind energy from projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Cobb Electric Membership Corp.’s board of directors voted Jan. 24 to stop financing its share in building the 850 MW coal-fired Plant Washington in Georgia.

CPS Energy finalized a 25-year power purchase agreement to buy 200 MW of electricity from the Texas Clean Energy Project.

GE technology has been selected by Korea Western Power Co. for the first integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant to be built in South Korea and one of the first in Asia.

Consol Energy Inc.'s board of directors has approved a 2012 capital budget of $1.7 billion, an increase from $1.4 billion invested in 2011.

American Electric Power and its operating unit, SWEPCO, said the company has settled all legal actions brought against it by the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and Audubon Arkansas related to the 600 MW, coal-fired John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant near Texarkana, Ark.

The FutureGen Alliance completed drilling for the characterization well at the FutureGen 2.0 carbon dioxide (CO₂) storage site in Morgan County, Ill., and that preliminary data indicates that the local Illinois geology is suitable for CO₂ storage.

Power4Georgians received an air permit from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division for the planned $2.1 billion, 850 MW Plant Washington coal-fired power plant.

Ameren, the host for the FutureGen 2.0 clean coal project, said it cannot supply a 369 MW oil-fired power plant in Meredosia, Ill., that would be converted to demonstrate the carbon-capture technology on a commercial scale.

Harsco Corp. said it has received a $25 million contract expansion to provide scaffold access services for the completion of Dominion Virginia Power’s 585 MW Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center.