The United States could become a net exporter of energy by 2022, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. EIA’s 2018 Annual Energy Outlook, the agency’s premier analytical product, says that “continued development of U.S. shale and tight oil and natural gas resources paired with modest consumption growth” will lead to the U.S.… More EIA: U.S. to become net energy exporter

Florida-based NextEra Energy and Washington’s Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry’s lobbying group, are in a brawl over the utility’s withdrawal from NEI. NextEra, along with New Orleans-based Entergy, withdrew from NEI in January, dealing a major blow to a trade group under pressure for achieving few results with a large budget. When the two… More NextEra, NEI in a nasty brawl

Exelon Corp. last week announced it will close its Oyster Creek nuclear plant in southern New Jersey near Toms River this October, a year ahead of schedule. The Chicago-based utility holding company, the nation’s largest nuclear plant operator, said high operating costs at the General Electric boiling water reactor plant and low electricity prices led… More Oyster Creek: A historic perspective

A federal appeals court decision in Washington this week could shut down construction of a natural gas pipeline in the Southeast, the Sabal Trail project. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Wednesday denied a request from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the partners in the Southeast Market Pipeline project to reverse… More D.C. court could sideline Sabal Trail gas pipeline

The South Carolina House yesterday passed a bill to remove a $27 monthly charge that customers of SCANA’s South Carolina Electric & Gas are paying for the two failed V.C. Summer nuclear plants. The legislation is another setback to Dominion’s $14.6 billion offer to buy SCANA, as Dominion has said the deal is off if… More More troubles for Dominion-SCANA merger