Jeff Postelwait

The Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) project, a 505 km, 2 GW power superhighway currently under construction in the UK, will use recycled copper in its materials, according to a press release by Prysmian. Prysmian will use about 10,000 tonnes of La Farga’s GENIUS recycled copper, with the project expecting to avoid nearly 56,675 ton of CO₂ equivalent emissions compared to the use of conventional primary copper.

The $66.8 billion deal NextEra Energy proposed last month to buy Dominion Energy and create the largest regulated electric utility in the US would consolidate too much power into too few hands, said Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats. King, who is the ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, urged FERC not to approve the purchase, according to Reuters.

A handful of private companies are now, along with the US federal government, into a plan to turn fissile materials from nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy Cold War era weapons containing plutonium could be reprocessed as viable nuclear fuel, with companies Exodys Energy, SHINE Technologies, Standard Nuclear, Flibe Energy and Oklo, Inc. working on the processes involved.