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Friday, May 2, 2014

The Week's Most Read Articles on Power Engineering 5/2

The Week's Most Read Articles
Video: Floating nuclear power plants could withstand natural disasters
MIT engineers say that today’s nuclear power plants are challenged with threats from natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and finding available real estate near a body of water that could be used for cooling.
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Natural gas combined-cycle power plant to be built in West Virginia
A 549-MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant will be built on a 37-acre site in Marshall County, W.Va. with construction planned to begin in mid-2015.
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Supreme Court overturns decision invalidating EPA’s CSAPR
The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a decision by a federal appeals court that ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) violated the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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GE in talks to buy Alstom
General Electric (NYSE: GE) is in talks to buy Alstom and an agreement may be announced as early as next week, according to a report from Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg a potential transaction may value Alstom at about $13 billion.
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More Headlines
• Energy Department to invest $10M in wave energy technology at Navy’s Hawaii test site
• Utah's largest commercial PV installation reaches 100 day performance milestone
• BNI Coal, Minnkota extend coal supply agreement
• Renewable energy generation projection sensitive to multiple factors
• SunEdison secures construction financing on 60 MW solar power facility
• CMS Energy announces new VP, CIO
• NRG, MidAmerican begin operations at 290-MW solar PV plant in Arizona
• Westinghouse forms business unit to develop nuclear in Brazil
• Hanford nuclear site under scrutiny over waste storage
• Exelon buying Pepco Holdings for $6.83 billion
• JinkoSolar to supply PV panels to EDP Renewables for California solar facility
• UPDATE: GE, Siemens make offers to acquire Alstom
• NRC bars former Indian Point nuclear worker for one year
• Rolls-Royce in talks to sell assets to Siemens
• EPA proposes approval of plan to cut emissions in New Mexico
• Mars Inc., Sumitomo enter joint venture on Texas wind farm project
• Scalia gets his facts wrong in EPA dissent

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