Keephills#2 went offline at 21:04 Friday and back online at 13:52 Sunday… Maine & Maritimes Corporation announced that a majority of its shares were voted in favor of adopting the merger agreement with BHE Holdings Inc. of Bangor, ME , a subsidiary of Emera Inc. Maine & Maritimes Corporation is the parent company of Maine Public Service Company, a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility serving approximately 36,000 electricity customer accounts in Northern Maine while Emera Inc. is an energy and services company with $5.4 billion in assets-electricity is Emera’s core business. Approximately 94% of Emera’s revenues are earned by Nova Scotia Power Inc, Bangor Hydro Electric Company and the Brunswick Pipeline…New technology to capture carbon dioxide byproducts has been selected for use at the Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center, the proposed coal-fired power plant near Sweetwater, TX. The plant will be among the first in the nation — and the first in Texas — to use the Fluor carbon capture technology for the coal-fired, 600-megawatt electricity generating plant. The technology is designed to capture 85 to 90 percent of the CO2 byproduct and send it via pipeline to the Permian Basin, where it will be used in enhanced oil recovery. The technology has been licensed on a commercial scale at 26 industrial plants worldwide, including three in the U.S… Renovalia Energy SA, the Spanish solar and wind power producer that in May postponed an initial public offering, said it plans a $258 million wind park in Alberta. The facility will have an electricity generating capacity of 120MW, and construction will begin the first quarter of 2011.
Keephills#2 Off and Online; Tenaska Carbon Capture
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