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Utilities pledges to look at options for downtown power plant

May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Daniel Chacon The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. - Colorado Springs Utilities pledged Wednesday to take a hard look at options to decommission the decades-old Martin Drake Power Plant in southwest downtown. More...

PNC funding of mountaintop mining hit

May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Taryn Luna Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A group of mostly elderly Quaker activists swelled to 75 on Wednesday as the final leg of their 200-mile, 17-day foot journey from Philadelphia approached its destination at PNC headquarters. More...

Waste Board puts the ball back in GGI's court

May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kyle Wilson The Creston News Advertiser, Iowa - Prairie Solid Waste Board decided during a special meeting Wednesday, May 9, they will not even look at GGI Energy's 20-year feedstock waste agreement until the company comes to Creston and completes a feasibility study. More...

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Independent Analysis Finds Revised Taylorville Energy Center Plan Projected to Save Illinois Ratepayers $437.7 Million

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 16, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Under the revised "Power Block First" proposal for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), Illinois electricity customers could save an estimated $437.7 million over a 20-year period, including more than $250.6 million in the plant's first five years of operation, according to a rate impact analysis conducted by Pace Global LLC, a Siemens business. More...

100 turn out to speak on coal plant permit

May 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - John Burgeson Connecticut Post, Bridgeport - About 100 people packed a meeting room in the City Hall Annex for a public hearing on whether the Bridgeport Harbor Power Station, the last coal-burning power plant in Connecticut, should have its operating permit renewed. More...

Company would convert solid waste into energy

May 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - George Hohmann Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va. - A New York company wants to turn West Virginia communities' solid waste into electricity. More...

Indiana Gasification Plant Steps Closer Toward EPA Approval Says IG Partner During Courier Press Interview

May 15 - PRNewswire-USNewswire - Indiana Gasification is one step closer toward the development of a $2.9 billion substitute natural gas plant as its emissions permit has been sent to the EPA for final approval, the Evansville Courier & Press recently reported. More...

NRG urged to continue payments

May 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - David Robinson The Buffalo News, N.Y. - Sen. Charles E. Schumer is pushing NRG Energy to continue making $16.6 million in payments over the next two years to Dunkirk and other Chautauqua County governments, even if it moves ahead with its plan to mothball its coalfired power plant in Dunkirk. More...

Argan, Inc.'s Wholly Owned Subsidiary Gemma Power Systems Receives Full Notice to Proceed for a Biomass-Fired Power Project

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 14, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Argan, Inc. (NYSE MKT: AGX) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gemma Power Systems (GPS), has received full notice to proceed from East Texas Electric Cooperative (ETEC) for a contract to design and build a 49.9 MW, biomass-fired power plant near Woodville, Texas. More...

B&W executives see bright prospects in coal power plants despite natural gas competition

May 11 - Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) - Prolonged low natural gas prices in the United States likely will hurt some of Babcock & Wilcox's coal power plant-related business, the company's top executives said Thursday. More...

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