TXU to Take Eight Power Plants Offline
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Energy company TXU Corp. on Friday said it plans to mothball eight natural gas-fired power plants representing a quarter of its Texas capacity in an effort to save about $20 million in annual expenses.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 16-- -- Shawnee Fossil Plant workers are investigating the cause of a two-hour power outage early Thursday morning that idled the 55-year-old plant for the first time.   The outage from about 2 to 4 a.m.
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The electric grid can be protected from big blackouts by deliberately disabling a few key power stations.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.
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The Dallas-based utility TXU Corporation reported a 33 percent increase in profit on Tuesday, but another Texas utility, Dynegy, swung to a loss of $58 million.
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Blog: Power failure in downtown San Francisco impacts popular data center, leaving several popular Web sites offline.
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A confluence of business decisions and environmental concerns drove the TXU buyout.
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By R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 21--AUSTIN -- A state district judge dealt a blow to Gov. Rick Perry's official powers Tuesday by blocking the governor's 2005 executive order creating a fast-track permitting process for coal-fired, electricity-generating plants.
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By Spencer, Robert; Goldstein, Nora  Two new facilities came on line in 2006, while one ceased operation and a second is shifting to a new technology. Annual survey identifies a total of 14 plants.
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Leave it to cowboy capitalism and Texas to come up with a weird monster energy deal involving a dozen new coal plants and a green $44 billion buyout that would scuttle some of the plants. In Epicenter.
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French nuclear giant Areva said on Thursday it was ready to build up to 12 next-generation power plants in South Africa, where massive electricity shortages shut down the key mining industry this month.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.   has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg  Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group   for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in  history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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Nearly half of Britain's nuclear power plants are currently out of operation.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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Britain's biggest coal-fired power station moves closer to winning compensation for unpaid contracts from collapsed energy group TXU Europe.
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The two power plants would use advanced technology intended to capture carbon dioxide before it escapes into the atmosphere.
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Gaza's only electrical plant announced it would shut down Sunday after an Israeli border closure blocked the entry of fuel that powers it. The move is certain to make life more difficult for the 1.5 million residents of the already impoverished territory.