Month: July 2015

ONEOK Partners LP on July 30 announced plans to invest $70 million to $100 million to expand its ONEOK WesTex Transmission intrastate natural gas pipeline system by increasing its throughput capacity by 260 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas by the first quarter 2017. […]

Apex Clean Energy is seeking to erect three test towers in Botetourt County, Va., which would collect weather data for the proposed 80-MW Rocky Forge wind project, a Virginia newspaper has reported. […]

Manitoba Hydro wants its end of a cross-border power line to actually meet up at the border at the same place as the Minnesota Power end, so it sent a July 30 letter warning that Minnesota regulators are offering several meet-up points, only one of which will actually work for Manitoba Hydro. […]

General Electric said July 30 that it will supply Pattern Development with 61 wind turbines for its 180-MW Meikle wind project, located approximately 33 kilometers north of Tumbler Ridge in the Peace Region of British Columbia. […]

PJM Interconnection filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an executed interconnection service agreement (with Hummel Station LLC and transmission owner PPL Electric Utilities that supersedes a jumble of other agreements for a new gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. […]

Due to a recent climb in coal inventories as its coal-fired capacity ran into tough competition in the power markets, Duke Energy Indiana on July 28 again instituted a coal “decrement” for units at its Cayuga and Gibson power plants. […]

TECO Energy (NYSE:TE) has nothing more to say about the conceivable sale of the company to a larger utility holding company. That was the official line from the company during a July 30 conference call. On July 16, TECO formally acknowledged that it was “exploring strategic alternatives,” including potential sale of the company. […]