The Babcock Dounreay Partnership, a consortium made of Babcock International, CH2MHILL and URS, said they have won the largest site closure contract ever in the UK.

Progress Energy Florida, a unit of Progress Energy, is planning to convert the more than 1,000 MW Anclote Power Plant to 100 percent natural gas.

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. has announced the launch of the PV Powered (PVP) HE String inverter line, suited for North American residential and small-commercial rooftop installations.

When it comes to emissions control, fossil-fired facilities are facing one of the biggest hurdles in U.S. history – a hurdle that must be cleared swiftly and seamlessly.

Stricter EPA regulations on fossil fuel power plants have led some utilities across the country to close coal-fired plants.

Coal-fired utilities deserve our respect and admiration for continuing to provide reliable, baseload power despite new regulations aimed at shutting them down.

URS Corp. has been awarded a contract to engineer and furnish SBS Injection technology for Hoosier Energy’s Merom Generating Station.

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission has voted unanimously to approve proposed construction of a 479-foot-tall, 5 MW wind turbine generator prototype in the lower Chesapeake Bay, three miles off the coast of Cape Charles, Va.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants.

EnergySolutions said the partnership it has formed with Environmental Dimensions Inc. has been awarded a $200 million contract for waste characterization, processing and waste operations services for the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.

Uranium Energy Corp. said it has acquired the rights to explore for uranium on the Burke Hollow Project, a 17,510-acre property in eastern Bee County, Texas.

The Georgia Public Service Commission on March 20 approved a plan from Georgia Power to shut down two coal-fired power plants at Plant Branch and an oil-fired unit at Plant Mitchell by 2019.

SaskPower and Hitachi Ltd. said March 20 they are partnering to construct a $60 million carbon capture test facility (CCTF) at SaskPower's single-unit, 276 MW Shand Power Station in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Ohio State University and Southern Co. have signed a collaborative testing agreement to demonstrate the high-pressure syngas-to-hydrogen chemical looping process.

A study completed by ABB Power Systems Consulting at the request of Dominion Virginia Power found that one offshore substation platform with two 230,000-volt power lines is appropriate to transmit to shore every 500-700 MW of wind-generated electricity constructed off the coast of Virginia.

Fuel Tech Inc. said it has received multiple air pollution control orders totaling $2.2 million.

The U.S. Senate March 8 voted 52-46 for the EPA Regulatory Relief Act, also known as the Collins Amendment to the Highway Bill of 2012.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued its annual assessment on the status of operating U.S. nuclear power plants.

FirstEnergy Generation Corp. has filed an application for a feasibility study with PJM Interconnection (PJM) to install up to 800 MW of new combustion turbine peaking generation at its existing Eastlake coal-fired power plant in Ohio.