- WestLB Closes USD 1.1 Billion Senior Secured Credit Facilities for Longview Power - A Part Merchant Coal-Fired Power Project.
NEW YORK -- WestLB's Global Energy Group announced today that it successfully closed USD 1.1 billion Senior Secured Credit Facilities for the financing of Longview Power, a 695 MW coal-fired power project currently under construction in West Virginia and the first privately built coal-fired project in the Eastern United States....
- Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy Group has received sufficient tax abatements from Milam County commissioners to commence plans to build a $900-million coal-fired power plant near Rockdale, a central Texas community situated in the middle of a triangle formed by the cities of Austin, Waco and Bryan/College Station. Although the tax abatement came ......
- US Natural Gas Reserves Rise, But Prices May Not
Fall.
According to a new research report by Ziff Energy Group, a Calgary energy consulting firm, record natural gas drilling in the US and Canada in 2004 resulted in new reserve additions which more than offset production in both countries. The group reported a 15% increase in natural gas reserves in ......
- Portable unit to control power-plant mercury
ADA Environmental Solutions (ADA-ES, Littleton, CO) will begin field-testing mercury emission controls for coal-burning power plants. Specifically, ADA-ES will develop and test a portable mercury-control system on four different power plant configurations that use electrostatic precipitators or fabric filters to remove particulates. The system sprays a fine mist of water ......
- Shaw Announces Significant Employment Opportunities in Engineering and Construction.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) (Shaw) has announced plans to add an additional 5,000 professionals and craft workers to its 21,000 person work force over the next 12 months. Shaw is experiencing unprecedented growth demands globally in its Power, Energy & Chemicals, and Fabrication & ......
- Energy group suggests single Railbelt operator
A state task force assigned to tackle a broad range of electric power generation issues in Alaska has issued its first report to the Legislature and is hard at work on a second report due in March. Anchorage businessman Mike Barry, who chairs the Alaska Energy Policy Task Force, told ......
- Deregulation and common carriage in the Nordic power
system.
INTRODUCTION Large state-owned power producers currently dominate Nordic power supply. Control of the national grid and strong vertical linkages between producers and distributors, and between distributors and end-users are key factors in securing their position in the market. Besides these linkages at all levels of the market for electricity, competition ......