Wayne Barber

Wayne Barber 238 posts

Wayne Barber, Chief Analyst for the GenerationHub, has been covering power generation, energy and natural resources issues at national publications for more than 22 years. Prior to joining PennWell he was editor of Generation Markets Week at SNL Financial for nine years. He has also worked as a business journalist at both McGraw-Hill and Financial Times Energy. Wayne also worked as a newspaper reporter for several years. During his career has visited nuclear reactors and coal mines as well as coal and natural gas power plants.
11.23.2016
Policy & Regulations
Clean Energy Won’t Stop with Obama Administration, EPA Chief Says
McCarthy used her speech and subsequent question-and-answer period to offer a spirited defense of EPA policy during the Obama administration….
11.21.2016
News
Holmstead Mum on Any Interest in Becoming EPA Chief
A fellow Bracewell official, lobbyist Frank Maisano, had told the same conference on Nov. 15 not to be surprised if Holmstead ends up being EPA chief in 2017 un…
11.14.2016
News
Van Ness Expects More Coal-Tolerant CO2 Rules Under Trump
The law firm issued another post-election analysis on Nov. 11 titled “How will a Trump Administration Re-set U.S. Climate Policies?”…
11.02.2016
Wind
Feds Ordered to Pay Alta Wind More Than $206m
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ordered that the U.S. government should pay Alta Wind more than $206m in a case brought in connection with the American Rec…
10.26.2016
Nuclear
Entergy Doubts Legal Challenge in New York will Thwart Fitzpatrick Sale
Denault also said during the quarterly earnings call that he doubts litigation over zero emissions credits (ZECs) in the state will be derailed by a lawsuit fil…
10.24.2016
Nuclear
OPPD Prepares to Shut Down Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant
The 478-MW unit is the smallest commercial nuclear unit in United States….
10.24.2016
Nuclear
OPPD Prepares to Shut Down Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant
The 478-MW unit is the smallest commercial nuclear unit in United States….
10.17.2016
Nuclear
Incoming NEI Chief Looks to Spread Nuclear-Friendly Policy in States
On Oct. 4, NEI announced that Korsnick, currently the COO at the trade organization, would become its new chief executive on Jan. 1, 2017 with the retirement of…
10.12.2016
Nuclear
Public Citizen Opposes FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant Sale to Exelon
Public Citizen claims in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that the proposed Entergy (NYSE:ETR) sale of the FitzPatrick nuclear plan…
10.10.2016
New Projects – Nuclear
DOE Task Force Sees ‘No Shortcut’ to Generous Deployment of Advanced Reactors
The United States must get serious about commercial development of advanced nuclear reactor technology in order to help reduce worldwide carbon dioxide (CO2) em…
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