January 2025

California utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric has gained a conditional loan guarantee in recent days of up to $15 billion from the U.S. Energy Dept. to upgrade hydroelectric facilities and expand and modernize state clean energy transmission infrastructure—a

In November, Athens, Ohio, officials sent nearly $722,000 to a bank account they believed was set up by its contractor, Pepper Construction, to receive payment for its work on a fire station headquarters. The request was actually a sophisticated

California officials recently selected a design-build team of Turner Construction Co. with DGA Architects for their $158-million Southern Region Emergency Operations Center, the contractor announced.The news operations center, part of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES), would complement

ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine in 2008 to see construction of a new enclosure over the nuclear power reactor that was destroyed in a 1986 explosion.Probably the most dangerous

Six New England states have become the first in the U.S. to collectively and proactively launch a longer range push for new power transmission projects to relieve critical capacity gaps in the region—asking grid operator ISO New England to

Congress’s last-minute spending appropriations saga had one more unexpected twist, with the Senate approving legislation to transfer administrative control of the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium campus to the District of Columbia. The move now puts the waterfront property in

ENR Deputy Editor Aileen Cho has many travel memories from her decades writing about construction, but there are a few instances that stand out from her many trips to distant locales.China, 2002Every trip for ENR is an adventure, even

Clean energy developer Enel Group will appeal a federal judge’s new order to dismantle, in less than one year, its 84-turbine onshore wind energy site operating since 2015 on Osage nation land in Oklahoma—in the latest update of a

The Biden administration pushed out two high-profile funding awards for clean energy projects—both billion-dollar-plus—in its waning days before feared shifts in sector financial support and favorable policy take shape under the Trump government after Jan. 20.The U.S. General Services

Chris Smith In the 1990’s it wasn’t uncommon to define risk management success as just limiting the number of deaths on a project site and purchasing and renewing insurance policies. But over the last 25 years, the risk manager