Southern Research Institute announced Monday that Arthur Tipton has been selected by its board of directors to serve as president and CEO effective July 8.

Spindrift Energy has started machining components for its first prototype wave-powered system as part of an Energy Innovation Small Grant from the California Energy Commission.

Akermin successfully commissioned and tested its proprietary Biocatalyst Delivery System at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama.

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is launching a floating wind turbine prototype off the coast of Maine.

L-3 MAPPS has signed a contract with Candu Energy to supply an engineering simulator for the Enhanced Candu 6 power plant project.

The National Science Foundation is awarding a $20 million grant to Nevada’s higher education system to help fund research on solar power.

GE announced a new membrane, the AG LF series, which purifies tough-to-treat water such as wastewater from industrial processes.

Operators at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant disconnected Unit 1 from the regional power grid early Thursday, beginning a scheduled outage to install turbine modifications.

Areva dedicated its new Fuel Field Services support center at its Solutions Complex in Lynchburg, Va.

The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) chose InStep Software’s eDNA software suite to perform real-time environmental and radiological monitoring of the state’s seven nuclear power plants for $1.4 million.

Exelon Generation restored power to the switchyard at the LaSalle County Generating Station in Illinois on April 18 and terminated an unusual event at the plant.

The Energy Department announced a new dry storage research and development project Tuesday, to be led by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will be the first in the U.S. to be tested on its emergency response procedures in the event of a terrorist attack.

Ohio State University is developing a process that could capture 99 percent of the carbon dioxide from coal-fired power generation.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. announced that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, signed a contract with FutureGen Industrial Alliance to begin the next phase of the 167 MW FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and storage project in Illinois.

First Solar announced this week it has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride photovoltaic solar cell conversion efficiency.

The Palisades nuclear power plant resumed providing power to the Michigan electric grid Friday.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is leading a three-year nationwide project to create 36-hour forecasts of incoming energy from the sun for solar energy power plants.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released a new study by the University of California-Davis that attempts to identify the source origin of ultrafine airborne particulate matter.