Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently headed to Washington to lobby against a Bush administration policy he says will add to the American air pollution that accounts for half of Ontario's smog.

Today the Ontario Heritage Trust and the Canadian Nuclear Society unveiled a provincial plaque commemorating the Douglas Point Nuclear Power Plant north of Tiverton. The Douglas Point Nuclear Power ...

A fire broke out in a 1,000-foot-tall smokestack under construction at a coal-fired power plant recently, trapping four contract workers, officials said. Three workers were plucked off the stack by a ...

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn't quite ready to hide a Romulan spaceship from Capt. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter. But ...

The Russian Federation's former minister of atomic energy, Aleksandr Rumyantsev, has been invited to head the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, the federal agency announced recently. A spokesman at ...

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist said recently there is a "very good chance" the Senate will approve a slimmed-down energy bill in March. "I think there's a very good chance it will pass it on ...

Customers of Wisconsin Energy Corp. could see a special charge on their electric bills to help the company pay for $600 million in environmental upgrades to its aging power plants, under a proposal ...

WASHINGTON - As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to rev up in the United States, the power grid is in parallel contending with the greatest transformation in its 100-year history: the large-scale ...

Exelon Generation today notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the company will begin the application process for a combined construction and operating license (COL) that would allow ...

The Brazilian government announced recently that it will export electricity to Argentina and Uruguay, which are currently suffering energy shortage. Brazilian Energy and Mining Minister Dilma Roussef ...

Emissions stats concern FARE - The Electricity ForumUpdated uranium emission measurements from Cameco's uranium conversion facility have become a topic of debate between the company and a concerned ...

When a transmission line fails, the power flow must be redirected onto neighboring lines. Without sufficient reserve margin on those lines, they become overloaded -- causing a cascading effect -- ...