The deadline for submitting abstracts is approaching for the International Seminar on Hydropower Plants, planned for Nov. 24 - 26, 2010, in Austria.

BC Hydro has awarded the first batch of electricity purchase agreements in its clean power program, the utility reported.

Great Lakes Utilities and Consolidated Water Power Co. (CWPCo), a unit of NewPage Corp, have signed a letter of intent to sell five CWPCo hydroelectric projects located along the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin.

A pair of Vermont utilities have signed a memorandum of understanding with provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, setting the stage for a new power supply contract for Vermont customers.

Plutonic Power Corp. officials said they are confident of securing a long-term contract after talks with British Columbia's electricity utility led to a slimming down of a key hydropower project.

BHE Holdings Inc. agreed to purchase Maine & Maritimes Corp. for $108 million. The two utilities would keep their separate names.

Exelon agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by the Illinois attorney general after three of the company's nuclear power plants reportedly leaked tritium-contaminated water into the ground.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded grants to three companies for conceptual design and planning for its Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).

Florida Power & Light (FPL) is studying a delay in the construction of two proposed nuclear reactors at the company's Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Florida and may reconsider seeking a federal loan guarantee.

Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) of South Korea and Turkey’s Elektrik Uretim (EUAS), the two countries’ state power companies, have signed of a co-operation agreement to develop nuclear power in Turkey.