A long planned high voltage, direct current line to move wind energy from western Oklahoma to the southeast U.S. is one of several major electric transmission and power projects listed high on President Donald Trump’s top priorities for infrastructure that are considered of emergency or national security interests.
Jan 26 (Reuters) - Magellan Midstream Partners LP
said on Thursday its refined products pipeline in Worth County,
Iowa, remained shut after spilling about 3,300 barrels of
diesel.
MEXICO CITY, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique
Pena Nieto said on Thursday he had scrapped plans to meet Donald
Trump next week after the U.S. president tweeted Mexico should
cancel the meeting if it was not prepared to pay for his
proposed border wall.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pursing the state’s 50 percent renewable by 2030 goal with vigor. On Wednesday he announced that the 90-MW South Fork Wind Farm, which will be located 30 miles southwest of the popular summer vacation spot, Montauk, and therefore invisible to beachgoers, is now approved by the board of trustees of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).
My discomfort with the largely Republican reform measures of H.R. 5 and H.R. 26/S.21 is the seeming refusal to undertake a dispassionate and measured review leading to proposed recommended revisions. The presumptions—that federal regulatory actions are capricious, dismissive of the costs incurred by the private sector and more appropriately the purview of the industries being regulated—are an over generalization.
Apple Inc. agreed to buy the output from a proposed 200-MW solar farm in Nevada to help power a data center in Reno.
A state of the art test platform is being established at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Bremerhaven, northern Germany.
While the EU has seen a remarkable increase in offshore wind, a Swedish project in the Baltic Sea has been cancelled due to a growing threat from Russia. What would have been a gigantic two-nuclear-plant-sized (2 GW) offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea; Blekinge Offshore AB was denied its permit in December due to recent heightened tensions in the region.
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