FirstEnergy Solutions (FES), the bankrupt competitive generation division of Ohio-based FirstEnergy, informed the PJM Interconnection this week that it plans to close all of its remaining coal-fired generation in Ohio and Pennsylvania, some 4GW in total, by June 2022. The company had already announced it would close its 4 GW of nuclear capacity and would … More FirstEnergy pulling the plug on coal
Is Tesla sacrificing quality for quantity as it produces its allegedly low-cost Model 3 all-electric car? That’s what the Business Insider web site suggests this week, based on internal Tesla documents it has acquired. According to the article, Tesla has reached at the end of June its 2017 goal of 5,000 Model 3 cars rolling … More Tesla pushing quantity over quality?
The long-troubled Vogtle nuclear construction project in Georgia is again in peril, caused by a continuing, uncontrolled increase in costs. While Southern Co., the lead utility in the project, says it is ready to absorb the latest increase in the cost estimate, two major public power systems may pull out. The latest cost increase, $2.3 … More Vogtle project in peril again as costs rise
With the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a 2-2 partisan deadlock, the internal (and decorous) war between the Democrats and Republicans on the long-festering issue of incorporating greenhouse gas emissions into natural gas pipeline decision appears to be deepening. Commissioner Robert Powelson participated in a number of pipeline cases as he departed the commission on … More Dissent Deepens at FERC over Pipeline Policy
The convoluted tale of South Carolina’s failed nuclear construction project, a year after SCANA Corp. and its South Carolina Electric & Gas subsidiary pulled the plug on the two-unit nuclear project, rolls on. Is an end to this story in sight? Not really. Most recently, on August 6, a federal circuit court rejected SGE&G’s challenge … More South Carolina’s failed V.C. Summer tale continues