Mounting losses, depressed demand and capacity closures have all been causes of misery for European steel producers, reflected in perennially low finished prices. What is the outlook for the market?
Infighting and revenge have become the norm on the Village Board in Spring Valley, N.Y., frustrating residents and stalling municipal business.
Companies hoping to spread renewable energy across the country are facing opposition from landowners and local regulators.
Is the economy the driving force? Nationalism? Arthur C. Brooks and Gail Collins argue over the meaning of the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
(Tue, 05 Apr 2016) Wholesale natural gas and power prices in the Northeast United States remained relatively low this winter, absent the large spikes that have occurred during recent winters. A combination of increased deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the region, a fuel adequacy winter reliability program, and the warmest winter on record helped to keep prices low and stable.
(Mon, 04 Apr 2016) Last year marked the first time on record that the average capacity factor of natural gas combined-cycle plants exceeded that of coal steam plants. The power industry has been running natural gas combined-cycle generating units at much higher rates than just 10 years ago, while the utilization of the capacity at coal steam power plants has declined.
Years of safety lapses as well as petty annoyances reveal how a grand vision of American liberalism has collided with reality.
Irritation with the faltering project, unfinished after seven years, has turned into a sort of focused hatred for the people who live beneath it.
London, the traditional home/hub of the world’s gold trade, could be slowly losing its grip on power as more and more of the world’s physical gold moves from London’s vaults to Asia.
The police in Kolkata detained eight executives of the company that built the elevated highway, after at least 23 people died.
