Decommissioning Archives http://www.powermag.com/tag/decommissioning/ The power industry's trusted source for generation technology, O&M, and legal & regulatory news for coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind & solar power plants; power jobs Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:41:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-p-power-32x32.jpg Decommissioning Archives http://www.powermag.com/tag/decommissioning/ 32 32 The POWER Interview: Ensuring Successful Power Plant Decommissioning https://www.powermag.com/the-power-interview-ensuring-successful-power-plant-decommissioning/ https://www.powermag.com/the-power-interview-ensuring-successful-power-plant-decommissioning/#respond Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:36:46 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=245348 Keith Kotimko is the U.S. Decommissioning and Demolition Leader for WSP, a full-service solution provider that offers comprehensive facility decommissioning and demolition services. Kotimko provided POWER with insight into the process of permanently shutting down a power generation facility. He emphasized that decommissioning is a separate activity from demolition.

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/the-power-interview-ensuring-successful-power-plant-decommissioning/feed/ 0 Successfully Closing a Power Plant? It’s All in the Details https://www.powermag.com/successfully-closing-a-power-plant-its-all-in-the-details/ https://www.powermag.com/successfully-closing-a-power-plant-its-all-in-the-details/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:26:00 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=244858 The retirement of older thermal power generation facilities, driven by a transition to cleaner forms of energy, has increased in recent years as utilities and other power generators mothball plants that are uneconomic or simply no longer needed.

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/successfully-closing-a-power-plant-its-all-in-the-details/feed/ 0 Tear It Down or Start It Back Up? Plant Owners Weigh Options Around Retired Reactors https://www.powermag.com/tear-it-down-or-start-it-back-up-plant-owners-weigh-options-around-retired-reactors/ https://www.powermag.com/tear-it-down-or-start-it-back-up-plant-owners-weigh-options-around-retired-reactors/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:06 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=225396 Nuclear power plants are still being dismantled, and the business of decommissioning remains strong, but the need for more baseload power and emissions-free generation has some companies ready to restart idled

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/tear-it-down-or-start-it-back-up-plant-owners-weigh-options-around-retired-reactors/feed/ 0 Evolution of Decommissioning Requirements in Renewable Energy https://www.powermag.com/evolution-of-decommissioning-requirements-in-renewable-energy/ https://www.powermag.com/evolution-of-decommissioning-requirements-in-renewable-energy/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:56:05 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=223398 With legislative momentum around clean power generation and net-zero emissions policies rapidly building, the U.S. is seeing rapid increases in installed wind and solar capacity each year. At the same time, older generations of renewables are facing a new challenge: obsolescence. The first utility-scale wind and solar projects in the U.S. were developed in the […]

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/evolution-of-decommissioning-requirements-in-renewable-energy/feed/ 0 Decommissioning Dilemmas: Navigating the End-of-Life Challenges in Clean Energy Sources https://www.powermag.com/decommissioning-dilemmas-navigating-the-end-of-life-challenges-in-clean-energy-sources/ https://www.powermag.com/decommissioning-dilemmas-navigating-the-end-of-life-challenges-in-clean-energy-sources/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:14:00 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=206363 Planning, building, operating, or overhauling power plants has long been an emphasis in the power sector—and an important one, given that the creation of new power capacity plays an outsized role in

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/decommissioning-dilemmas-navigating-the-end-of-life-challenges-in-clean-energy-sources/feed/ 0 GE Hitachi Set to Transfer Ownership of Closed Vallecitos Nuclear Plant https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/ge-hitachi-set-to-transfer-ownership-of-closed-vallecitos-nuclear-plant/ https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/ge-hitachi-set-to-transfer-ownership-of-closed-vallecitos-nuclear-plant/#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 20:34:53 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?post_type=press-releases&p=191229 WILMINGTON, North Carolina—May 9, 2023—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced its intent to transfer ownership of the 1,600-acre GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Center to NorthStar Group Services, Inc. (“NorthStar”) for nuclear decontamination, decommissioning and environmental site restoration. The proposed transaction is subject to certain reviews and approvals by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the […]

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/ge-hitachi-set-to-transfer-ownership-of-closed-vallecitos-nuclear-plant/feed/ 0 DTE Energy Boosts Renewable Energy Portfolio with Major Michigan Wind Farm https://www.powermag.com/dte-energy-boosts-renewable-energy-portfolio-with-major-michigan-wind-farm/ https://www.powermag.com/dte-energy-boosts-renewable-energy-portfolio-with-major-michigan-wind-farm/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:27:00 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=188498 Midwestern utility DTE Energy announced its 225-MW Meridian Wind Park project has entered commercial operation. The group on April 18 said the wind farm, located in Merrill and spanning parts of Midland and Saginaw counties in central Michigan, features 77 turbines and operates on land leased from farmers in the region. A DTE spokesperson said […]

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/dte-energy-boosts-renewable-energy-portfolio-with-major-michigan-wind-farm/feed/ 0 Jacobs to Plan Dismantling of Soviet-era Nuclear Reactors https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/jacobs-to-plan-dismantling-of-soviet-era-nuclear-reactors/ https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/jacobs-to-plan-dismantling-of-soviet-era-nuclear-reactors/#respond Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:36:46 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?post_type=press-releases&p=181293 Project in Lithuania could offer important lessons for U.K. power station cleanup DALLAS – A consortium comprising Westinghouse Electric Spain, Jacobs (NYSE:J) and the Lithuanian Energy Institute was selected to plan dismantling and waste management at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania. Soviet-designed Ignalina could be the first graphite-moderated reactor plant to be […]

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/jacobs-to-plan-dismantling-of-soviet-era-nuclear-reactors/feed/ 0 Balancing the Scales: Disparities in Decommissioning Practices for Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy https://www.powermag.com/balancing-the-scales-disparities-in-decommissioning-practices-for-renewable-and-non-renewable-energy/ https://www.powermag.com/balancing-the-scales-disparities-in-decommissioning-practices-for-renewable-and-non-renewable-energy/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:02:05 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=178893 There have been historic initiatives within the U.S. to create a sustainable energy economy and to address major environmental concerns created by fossil fuels. The Inflation Reduction Act contains $369 billion in climate and energy provisions, which will have a meaningful impact on climate change. Meanwhile, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law seeks to remedy environmental issues […]

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]]> https://www.powermag.com/balancing-the-scales-disparities-in-decommissioning-practices-for-renewable-and-non-renewable-energy/feed/ 0 Essential Prep and Closeout of Demolition Projects—What Power Plant Owners Need to Know https://www.powermag.com/essential-prep-and-closeout-of-demolition-projects-what-power-plant-owners-need-to-know/ https://www.powermag.com/essential-prep-and-closeout-of-demolition-projects-what-power-plant-owners-need-to-know/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:06:00 +0000 https://www.powermag.com/?p=175810 Industrial demolition projects of any scale are complex undertakings that require much more than just knocking things down and cleaning them up. Quite the opposite, in fact. Demolition, including of a retired

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