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Three Mile Island is the Latest Nuclear Power Plant to Announce Retirement Plans

June 14, 2017 - in Energy, Featured

At the end of May, Exelon, the owner of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in southeastern Pennsylvania, announced its intention to retire the plant in 2019 unless the company is given assistance by the state to help keep the plant financially…

Urban Solar Lands UL Approval for Entire Product Line

June 14, 2017 - in Energy, News, Renewables

BEAVERTON, OR - Urban Solar is proud to announce that all of our solar powered LED systems are now UL Listed.  This listing covers all transit-related…

The Project to Turn Alaska Nuclear

June 14, 2017 - in Energy

ALASKA – Galena, Alaska, has a population of less than 500 people. But, the little, bush town near the Arctic Circle made big headlines when it was…

SynTech Bioenergy Announces Advances in Biomass Renewable Technologies

June 14, 2017 - in Energy, Renewables

Denver, Colo.: SynTech Bioenergy, a Denver based renewable energy technology company, is committed to delivering distributed clean energy through advanced thermal conversion of biomass and other wastes around the…

Dawn of the Digital Transformer

June 14, 2017 - in Electric Grid, Energy

No matter how good a piece of technology is, there comes a time when it needs to evolve. The creation of the distribution transformer in the early 1880s was a technological marvel. For the first time, it allowed the high voltage flowing through the national…

GE Ventures Launches Data-Driven Company to Advance Industry Inspection Services

June 14, 2017 - in Energy

BERLIN - Today at GE’s Minds + Machines Europe event, GE Ventures (NYSE:GE) announced the launch of Avitas Systems, a new company that will use predictive data analytics, robotics, and artificial intelligence to deliver advanced inspection services to the…

Sunnova Raises nearly $1 Billion Based on Strength of Business Approach

June 13, 2017 - in Energy, Financial, News, Renewables

HOUSTON, June 13, 2017 — Sunnova Energy Corporation, a leading residential solar service provider in the U.S., announced today it has raised aggregate capital of nearly $1 billion in the past three months after closing a $140 million round of debt funding…

Reporting Oil Companies’ Proved Reserves in 2016 Decline for Second Consecutive Year

June 13, 2017 - in Energy, Oil & Gas

Annual reports of 68 publicly traded oil companies indicated that their aggregate proved liquids reserves declined in 2016 for the second consecutive year. The decline in proved reserves was heavily concentrated in a few companies that reduced their estimated…

NERC’s Summer Reliability Assessment Highlights Seasonal Electricity Reliability Issues

June 8, 2017 - in Electric Grid, Energy

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) recent 2017 Summer Reliability Assessment finds that there are enough resources to meet this summer's projected peak electricity demand in all areas of the country. Anticipated reserve margins, the…

RigNet’s SI&A Business Unit Wins Systems Integration Contract For New North American Downstream Energy Facility

June 8, 2017 - in Energy

HOUSTON- RigNet, Inc. (NASDAQ:RNET), announced today that it was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to provide communications infrastructure for a new downstream energy facility in North America. The contract leverages the skills and knowledge of RigNet’s…