Canadian Solar Inc. appointed Michael Potter as senior vice president and chief financial officer effective July 20, 2011.
American Electric Power named Lisa Barton executive vice president – AEP Transmission effective Aug. 1, replacing Susan Tomasky, who is retiring.
The board of directors of Sempra Energy elected Debra L. Reed chief executive officer.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was closed June 27 due to the threat from approaching wildfires.
UGI Corp. said that Robert C. Flexon, current chief financial officer, will resign effective July 10 to become president and chief executive officer of Dynegy Inc.
Westinghouse Electric Co. has developed and implemented a passive thermal shutdown seal at the 851 MW Unit 1 at the Farley Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama.
The 500 MW Fort Calhoun and the 830 MW Cooper nuclear power plants in Nebraska were on flood alert as of June 20 as state officials monitored rising water in the Missouri River.
Nordic Windpower announced Jeff Brown has been appointed CEO and Director.
Stephen Kuczynski has been elected chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company's Southern Nuclear subsidiary.
The body of a worker was found after the building he was working in collapsed unexpectedly at Progress Energy Florida’s retired 452 MW Paul Bartow power plant in Florida.
American Electric Power announced that Susan Tomasky, president, AEP Transmission, will retire from the company effective July 31.
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. (FENOC), a unit of FirstEnergy Corp., named Eric A. Larson vice president of Nuclear Support.
A worker is missing after a building at Progress Energy Florida’s retired 452 MW Paul Bartow Power Plant collapsed the evening of June 9.
CH2M Hill named Matthew McGowan as senior vice president of Corporate Development.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on June 6 issued inspection results for the 104 operating U.S. nuclear power reactors, regarding their guidelines for continuing to protect the public even if accidents were to damage their reactor cores.
Marsh formed a new Global Power Practice to help clients manage risks associated with infrastructure projects in emerging and developed economies.
John Bryson, former chairman and CEO of Edison International, was nominated by President Obama to be the new Secretary of the Department of Commerce.
A nuclear power plant close to where tornadoes hit Joplin, Mo. was singled out weeks before as being vulnerable to tornadoes.
