Not exact matches
Faraday Future, the EV startup
funded by wheeler - dealer LeEco founder Jia Yueting, seems to have begun construction work for an
electric vehicle
plant...
He says the pension
fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island,
electric customers are still paying for a nuclear
plant which never opened.
Although injection into deep rock formations has proceeded without difficulty at a pilot project at the Mountaineer coal - fired power
plant in West Virginia — 3,000 metric tons have been stored so far, says Gary Spitznogle of American
Electric Power, which owns the facility — public opposition halted a similar government -
funded project in Ohio.
If we could develop smaller more localised nuclear
plants or, better yet,
fund the Bussard fusion development, dropping line losses would easily make up for incandescents (and would also allow for
electric cars.)
In the 1960s and 1970s, California's
electric utilities had planned to build a string of new reactors and new
plants that were ultimately killed by anti-nuclear leaders and groups, including Governor Jerry Brown, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense
Fund (NRDC).
In 2002, Edison Mission completed a $ 1.6 billion sale - leaseback with General
Electric Capital, but by 2012, the
plant was not making enough money to cover its lease payments to GE, so it handed over control to GE Capital, and the company that held the
plant's debt, Homer City
Funding, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy.