** Boeing will lay off more than 2,500 workers in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Missouri, according to federally required filings posted on Monday and a union official, as part of the debt-heavy U.S. planemaker’s plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce.
** Just days after announcing a civil fine against Ford for moving too slowly on a recall, the U.S. government unveiled two investigations into recalls that may not have worked or covered enough vehicles.
** Forced outages have pushed all three of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s nuclear plants to go unexpectedly offline, including at a Tennessee plant that won’t be able to power up again until next year.
** GE Vernova confirms that an undisclosed number of employees were fired or suspended following its investigation of quality-control issues related to a turbine blade failure at the Vineyard Wind project.
** Nearly 80 Michigan counties and townships file a lawsuit claiming the state’s new renewable energy siting law that gives state regulators more power to approve projects is unlawful and unreasonable.
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** British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s wind turbine blitz threatens to leave the North Sea strewn with rusting oil rigs because of a lack of equipment needed to dismantle the retired platforms. His rush to build new offshore wind turbines risks depriving the oil and gas sector of the heavy-lift ships and cranes needed to remove the rigs, industry trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has warned.
** A solar farm in China is so large, the Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station covers an area of 7,000 hectares (70 sq km) and is home to more than 5.9 million solar panels. The facility is designed to generate 5.7 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity every year, sufficient to power two million households. It was brought online earlier this month, a press release said.
** Nippon Steel Corp. is promising unionized workers of United States Steel Corp. that it won’t send steel shipments from its overseas mills as part of its commitments to seal a $14.1 billion takeover of the iconic American company.
