Natural gas futures fell for the ninth time in 11 days in New York amid signs that supplies of the power-plant and factory fuel will exceed demand…Improvements to interprovincial power transmission infrastructure in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick would be a boon to planned and proposed renewable projects. Nova Scotia Power CEO Chris Huskilson will join New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham and NB Power representatives in Fredericton today for an announcement on regional energy co-operation. Another $200-million, 345-kilovolt power transmission line between the provinces, which Nova Scotia Power revealed recently it is considering, would allow more clean power to flow on the grid. Hydro-Quebec also has another 6,000 megawatts of power planned for the coming years that could be pushed into Atlantic Canada…Schneider Electric’s Renewable Energies Business has been awarded another 30MW inverter contract with EDF EN Canada Inc. This contract is for EDF EN Canada’s new solar photovoltaic projects: St. Isidore and Elmsley, outside Ottawa…Progress Energy Florida estimates its Crystal River nuclear power plant will be back on line by the end of September now that the utility company is working to replace a cracked section of the facility’s containment wall…Delaware regulators announced a pact that will leave only one big coal-fired boiler operating at the Indian River power plant near Millsboro MD by 2013, part of a deal that also will expand training programs for clean energy jobs. NRG will permanently shut down its 155-megawatt Unit 3 boiler in December 2013.
Nova Scotia & New Brunswick To Cooperate
- No comments yet.