Topic: Energy and Power Engineering
Exelon to close 4 Penn. generating units by 2011
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Power generator Exelon to shut 4 Pennsylvania generating units by 2011; eliminated 280 jobs</div><div><p>Exelon will shut four 50-year-old power generating stations near Philadelphia in 2011 that the power generator says are no longer economic to ...
NC utility to shut down 11 older coal plants
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Progress Energy to close 11 NC coal-burning power plants that lack scrubbers by 2017</div><div><p>Progress Energy Inc. will close 11 coal-burning power plants in North Carolina that don't have scrubbers by 2017, the Raleigh electric ...
Toshiba, Hitachi win solar power generation contracts
AFP Asian Edition
<div><p>Japanese electronics makers Toshiba and Hitachi said Monday they had won contracts to develop large solar power generation projects for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).</p><p>Toshiba said it would install a solar power system with about seven megawatt capacity ...
Ind. coal-gasification plant cost reaches $2.5B
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Duke Energy: Indiana coal-gasification power plant's cost grows to at least $2.5 billion</div><div><p>Duke Energy Corp. says the cost of the coal-gasification power plant it's building in southwestern Indiana has risen another $150 ...
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