Wind v. natural gas. Is it a race? To create electricity you need fuel. So you have to harvest naturally occurring resources—either the ones that exist above ground or the ones that exist underground. The underground resources—the legacy ‘go-to’ fuels that generate the U.S.’s cheap baseload electricity are coal, natural gas and uranium. The three fuels are responsible for about
RICHMOND, Va., April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Dominion (NYSE: D) has chosen longtime Questar Corp. (NYSE: STR) executive Craig C. Wagstaff to lead its western U.S. natural gas operations once the previously announced combination of Dominion and Questar is completed. Wagstaff, currently president of Questar Gas Co., will become president of Dominion Questar. He will be responsible for all current Questar
– Station’s 1,358 megawatts can power 325,000 homes – During construction more than $824 million in economic benefits was generated – Station uses efficient technology and clean natural gas RICHMOND, Va., April 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The newest member of Dominion Virginia Power’s generation fleet, the 1,358 megawatt, environmentally clean Brunswick Power Station began producing electricity for the company’s
If zero-emissions technology takes off, is there a need for the environmental movement? Look out wind and solar, a North Carolina company, NET Power, LLC, has broken ground on a first-of-its-kind: a zero-emissions natural gas demonstration power plant. A collaborative effort between Exelon Generation (ticker: EXC, ExcelonCorp.com) , CB&I (ticker: CBI, cbi.com), 8 Rivers Capital (8riverscapital.com) and Toshiba (ticker: TYO, toshiba.com),
