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FirstEnergy Corp's lenders have signed waivers and amended the terms of its loans to cure compliance breaches stemming fromthe disclosure of a roughly $4 million payment in 2019 that was uncovered as part of an internal bribery investigation.

Whenever a Department of Energy loan goes bad – as it did in the case of the Crescent Dunes concentrated solar project in Nevada – questions are raised about the program. But how bad is the US government at picking winners, really?

Changes to Mexico's clean energy certificate program could spell trouble for renewable energy developers in the country that had banked on selling certificates in the open market, but most of the wind and solar assets being considered for project finance had already locked in a fixed price, say market participants.

Brazilian state-controlled Eletrobras’ subsidiary Eletronuclear has formally requested an extension of the operating life of its Angra 1 nuclear power plant.

As President Donald Trump's grand infrastructure plan hit the buffers earlier this year, his former attorney, Michael Cohen, was allegedly doing his own bit for the cause by seeking government funds for a mothballed nuclear project in Alabama, according to an Aug. 2 report in the Wall Street Journal.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the superman-shaped drone that environmental group Greenpeace flew into a wall of EDF's 3,580 MW Bugey nuclear facility on July 3.

The results of the recent PJM Interconnection capacity auction have excited many in the industry but should prompt a thoughtful pause, writes Louise Pesce, managing director at MUFG in Los Angeles, in this week’s Industry Current.

FirstEnergy Corp. announced the long-awaited Chapter 11 filing of its competitive generation subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions, as well as FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co., on March 31.

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