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Exelon to Build ‘Cleanest’ Natural Gas Units

September 30, 2014September 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Exelon Generation is planning to build two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units in Texas using a new General Electric technology that it says will make them among the cleanest, most efficient CCGTs in the state and the nation. The new units are being built on existing Exelon sites: one at ... Read more »

AEP, Duke Top Power Plant Carbon Pollution List

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

American Electric Power emitted the most carbon from power plants in 2012 — some 141,226,882 tons of CO2 — followed by Duke Energy at 134,277,330 tons, according to a report on US power plant carbon pollution. Benchmarking Air Emissions says the top five — AEP, Duke, Southern Company, NRG and ... Read more »

Exelon Nuclear Selects Locus’ Data Management Software

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Exelon Nuclear will use Locus Technologies’ EIM and ePortal software to improve its data gathering and management, monitoring and reporting at its nuclear sites, the cloud-based environmental compliance and information management software company says. Exelon Nuclear is a business unit of Exelon Generation with about 34,700MW of owned capacity. In ... Read more »

Exelon Beats GHG Goal 7 Years Early

April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Exelon says it reduced or avoided more than 18 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2013, surpassing its goal of eliminating 17.5 million metric tons of GHG emissions per year by 2020. The company achieved the goal established by its Exelon 2020 program seven years earlier than planned ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: Wildscreen, NAESB, EPRI

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 by Leon Walker

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Wildscreen: The wildlife conservation committee has named Caroline Copsey as its new CEO. Copsey joins Wildscreen following three years at Dyson where she most recently held position as the head of marketing for international business development. North American Energy Standards Board: The standards ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Carbon Rule Goes to White House, Ryan Budget Attacks ‘War on Coal’

April 2, 2014April 4, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

The White House has received the EPA’s draft regulations on carbon emissions from existing power plants, according to Office of Management and Budget records cited by The Hill. President Obama set a June deadline for the proposal, a cornerstone of his climate change plan. An EPA finding from earlier this ... Read more »

Arctic Blast Could Cost US Economy $5 Billion

January 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The record freeze that blanketed the eastern half of the US this week cancelled or delayed thousands of flights, halted road and rail travel, and drove energy prices higher, Reuters reports. At least nine people have died from frigid temperatures, expected to be 25 degrees to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below ... Read more »

BNY Mellon, Cisco, Entergy Top CDP’s S&P 500 Rankings

September 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BNY Mellon, Cisco Systems and Entergy top the CDP’s annual carbon performance and disclosure ratings for the S&P 500, released today. All three companies received a disclosure score of 100 — calculated to reflect each company’s transparency on climate change — and A performance ratings, which rank companies according to ... Read more »

CDP Global 500: 10% of Largest Companies Produce 73% of GHGs

September 12, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BMW, Daimler, Philips Electronics, Nestlé, financial firm BNY Mellon, Cisco Systems and utility Gas Natural SDG — all with perfect 100 disclosure scores and A performance ratings — top the CDP’s list of the world’s best companies in terms of climate change disclosure and performance. Honda, Nissan, Volkswagen, Hewlett-Packard and ... Read more »

Bumpy Road for Nuclear

June 17, 2013June 27, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The closure of Southern California Edison’s troubled San Onofre 2 and 3 nuclear power reactors may not be the most troubling recent development for that power sector. Two other US reactors have closed this year, leaving exactly 100, but one of the shuttered plants – Dominion’s Kewaunee plant in Wisconsin – ... Read more »

Energy Executive Moves: Demand Energy Networks, World Energy Solutions, Energy Curtailment Specialists, Exelon, Sapphire Energy

June 3, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

Demand Energy Networks has appointed Gregg Patterson (pictured) as president and CEO. Most recently, Patterson was president of the Renewable Energy business at Advanced Energy, a manufacturer of solar inverters. With Patterson joining the organization, founder and former CEO Dave Curry becomes Demand Energy Network’s chairman. World Energy Solutions named ... Read more »

Power Plants Cut CO2 Emissions 7% in Three Years

May 17, 2013May 17, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

US power plants cut emissions from nitrous oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and CO2 in 2011 even as overall electricity generation increased, according to data from the Energy Information Administration and the EPA. In 2011, power plant NOx and SO2 emissions were 70 percent and 72 percent lower, respectively, than ... Read more »

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