Energy services company Piedmont Natural Gas (PNY) has agreed to provide natural gas delivery service to Progress Energy’s (PGN) recently announced power generation facility to be built at Progress Energy Carolinas’ Wayne County, N.C. To provide gas delivery service to the plant Piedmont plans to a construct 38-miles pipeline with compression facilities by Jul 2012. [...]

(PNY) Piedmont Natural Gas Agrees to Provide Natural Gas to Progress Energy

Recently, the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved new nuclear cost recovery rates for the state’s two major electric utilities. It increased the rates for one and reduced them for the other. Both changes are effective Jan. 1, 2010. The commission approved $62.7 million for FPL Group’s (FPL) Florida Power & Light Company and [...]

(FPL) Florida Electric Utilities Get Nuclear Rates Approved

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On Oct 1, 2009, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) approved Progress Energy Carolinas’ plan to build new a natural gas-fueled power generation plant in Wayne County. The commission approved a certificate of public convenience and necessity for Progress Energy Carolinas’ proposed 950-megawatt [MW] combined-cycle power plant, with a projected investment of about $900 million. Raleigh, [...]

(PGN) Progress Energy to Replace Coal Units

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