Wayne Barber, Chief Analyst for the GenerationHub, has been covering power generation, energy and natural resources issues at national publications for more than 20 years. Prior to joining PennWell he was editor of Generation Markets Week at SNL Financial for nine years. He has also worked as a business journalist at both McGraw-Hill and Financial Times Energy. Wayne also worked as a newspaper reporter for several years. During his career has visited nuclear reactors and coal mines as well as coal and natural gas power plants.
While U.S. coal production is declining, so evidently is the number of coal miners who die on the job, according to preliminary figures from the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
Top legal officials in more than a dozen states have asked President-elect Donald Trump not to abandon the much-debated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP).
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved an infrastructure plan by PG&E (NYSE:PCG) utility Pacific Gas and Electric to support up to 7,500 electric vehicle charging ports in workplaces, disadvantaged communities, and multi-unit dwellings.
American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) utility Indiana Michigan Power said Jan. 3 that Unit 2 of the D.C. Cook nuclear plant in Bridgman, Michigan had completed an 89-day refueling and maintenance outage.
The amount of United States rail traffic involving coal was less than 4.03 million carloads during the first 25 weeks of 2016, according to the latest data from the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC project. Comments on the draft EIS must be received in Washington, D.C., on or before April 6. Once the final EIS is issued, the FERC Commissioners will take into...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has cited the PG&E (NYSE:PCG) Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California with a white finding of low to moderate safety significance for failing to adequately maintain the emergency core cooling system.
Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) utility Arizona Public Service (APS) has signed an agreement with Arlington Valley, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star West Generation, LLC, to contract for 565 MW of capacity from the Arlington Valley combined cycle power plant beginning June 1, 2020 for a total of six...
Despite the Obama administration’s commitment to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the power sector, there have been many nuclear plant retirement announcements in recent years. Now the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), is asking the incoming Trump administration to take steps to both improve the economic prospects of the existing...