NUCLEAR:
• After stopping work on the project in 2013, Duke Energy is poised to secure a federal license for a new plant on Florida’s Gulf coast. (Politico)
• Advocates hail the TVA’s new Watts Bar 2 reactor as a sign the industry is far from dead. (MarketWatch)
COAL ASH:
• Environmentalists protest the TVA’s decision to leave tons of ash in place at shuttered power plants. (Nashville Public Radio)
• Georgia Power offers some details about its plans for closing 29 ash ponds. (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
UTILITIES: An Arkansas woman wins a settlement against Southwestern Electric Power over $4.2 million in customer charges that are to be refunded. (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
WIND: An Alabama equipment supplier to paper and other industries adds a division to develop wind energy systems. (Birmingham Business Journal)
PIPELINES: A new commission forms in Georgia to study how eminent domain could harm “essential public interests.” (Savannah Morning News)
COAL: About 4,000 rally in Lexington, Kentucky calling on Congress to extend the federal health care benefits of retired miners. (Associated Press)
SOLAR: A developer near Richmond, Virginia overcomes local real estate development potential to secure a permit for a solar farm. (New Kent-Charles City Chronicle)
POWER LINES: Virginia regulators express skepticism of Dominion Virginia Power’s cost estimate for burying vulnerable power lines throughout the state. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
COMMENTARY: Fracking brings local harm, so it should be subject to local controls. (Beckley Register-Herald)