Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...
An aerial view of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Vistra announced it has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with an ...
As anyone familiar with the U.S. utility industry can tell you, the power generation business is cyclical. Fuel prices, regulations and capacity needs create periods of peak new-build and plant ...
During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...
Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station (Source: Entergy). Entergy will consider adding up to 275 megawatts (MW) of capacity through uprates at its existing nuclear plants, CEO Drew Marsh told ...
Bloom Energy announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers in the U.S., with the company claiming it will deliver onsite power for an ...
The Ludington pumped storage project in Michigan entered service in 1973. Calling 2025 “the year of the water battery,” the International Hydropower Association (IHA) touted new global pumped storage ...
Data centers are driving more power equipment orders than ever before. Data centers generated more orders for GE Vernova’s electrification equipment in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2025 ...
Salt River Project (SRP) and Google this week announced what the companies are calling a “first-of-its-kind” research collaboration to better understand the real-world performance of emerging ...
Duane Arnold nuclear facility. Source: NextEra Energy. Google will be the primary buyer of electricity from NextEra Energy’s Duane Arnold nuclear plant, according to an announcement by the companies ...
The North American data center market posted record numbers across nearly every major metric in 2025. Vacancy in eight primary data center markets fell to an all-time low of 1.4 percent. Yet the total ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF), has issued a conditional loan commitment of up to $17.5 billion aimed at accelerating the deployment of 10 ...