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Ivan Penn
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Alternative Energy Correspondent, The New York Times
Los Angeles
Beats
Biography
Ivan Penn covers utilities and consumer issues for the Tampa Bay Times. He studied at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he majored in journalism and became the editor of The Diamondback daily student newspaper. He began his professional journalism career in 1992 as a reporter and computer assisted researcher for the Miami Herald. A year later, he returned home to Maryland, where he worked for the Baltimore Sun for 12 1/2 years. While on the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, he accepted a position with the St. Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times. He has won numerous awards, including reporting on the failed nuclear repair and maintenance project at the Crystal River nuclear plant.
natural gas, duke energy consumer affairs, utilities tampa electric, teco energy florida power & light, power plantsnuclear energy
Content
By Ivan Penn Verified| Chattanooga Times Free Press Verified President Donald Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can’t compete with cheaper, cleaner alternatives. And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running.
Company Info
The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
+1 800-698-4637