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POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 9, 2026 GE Vernova to Support India’s Energy Transition With 6-GW HVDC Transmission Project GE Vernova announced on Nov. 6 that it has been officially chosen by PowerGrid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) to deliver a critical 6-GW High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 4, 2026 Data Centers, Affordability, and the Ballot Box: What the 2026 Midterms Mean for the Power Industry Public affairs strategists John Ashford and Jared Dubnow examine the political backlash against data centers, the implications for power-sector investment and regulation, and […]

As fleets grow more diverse, reliable operational data—not algorithms—could decide how useful artificial intelligence (AI) becomes in the control room. “If a 1-GW offshore wind park unexpectedly goes offline, the impact on grid stability can be significant,” Mark Robens, sales head for North and Western Europe for Controls & Digitalization at Siemens Energy, said as […]

Critical Insights on Decarbonizing Energy Sponsored by: Decarbonizing the energy system is not one project but many, and not all of them sit on the electric grid. Heat and fuels are a major part of energy use, and cutting their emissions means finding new roles for existing assets as well as building new ones. The […]

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POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 28, 2026 DOE Offers Constellation Up to $5B Loan for 1.1 GW of Nuclear Uprates at Eight Plants The Department of Energy (DOE) has offered Constellation Energy a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to finance nuclear power uprates […]

Critical Insights on Engineering and Design Sponsored by: The performance, cost, and reliability of a power plant are shaped long before it starts generating electricity. Decisions made during engineering and design, such as how a facility is configured, what conditions it must withstand, and how lessons from one project carry over to the next, can […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 26, 2026 The Nuclear Company Proposes 6.6-GW AP1000 Nuclear Campus in Kentucky The Nuclear Company (TNC) has unveiled plans to develop a 6.6-GW nuclear power campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, that could accommodate up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors along the […]

Emerald Horizon plans to sell a hybrid battery and molten-salt storage system now and add an accelerator-driven thorium generator later. The generator remains at an early stage of development. Austria decided against nuclear power in the late 1970s and has not revisited the question since, according to Mario Müller, vice president of research and development […]

When no suitable vessel was available to carry its gas turbine generators from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, the Rabigh Reinforcement project team turned to the heavy-lift charter market at a time when shipping conditions were already challenging. Drawing on its logistics experience and global agreements, the consortium engaged one of the […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 12, 2026 Google Deal Backs 890 MW of Constellation Nuclear Uprates at 11 PJM Reactors Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 8, 2026 Google Deal Backs 890 MW of Constellation Nuclear Uprates at 11 PJM Reactors Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of […]

When the heads of three of the power sector’s biggest trade associations shared a stage at Experience POWER on Sept. 30, the most notable thing was how little they disagreed. Whether the question was data center backlash, grid security, or what to do about gas-plant emissions rules, the answer came back to the same point: […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 7, 2026 Beyond the Demand Forecast: Six Questions About Powering Data Centers From DPX 2026 This year’s Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX), whose programming POWER’s editors curated, was structured to look beyond the scale of opportunity presented by large-load forecasts and […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 5, 2026 Building the Connections Australia's Energy Transition Needs Moving Tasmania’s abundant renewable power to the mainland means threading a subsea and underground cable through farmland, coastline, and Victoria’s Latrobe Valley—each stretch carrying its own   The Grid Reliability Risk Hiding […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 1, 2026 Parr Station Modernization Writes the Next Chapter in a Century of Reinvention POWER’s 2026 Reinvention Award goes to Dominion Energy South Carolina’s Parr Station, where new dual-fuel turbines replace decades-old peaking units and extend a century-long pattern of reinvention […]

POWER’s 2026 Reinvention Award goes to Dominion Energy South Carolina’s Parr Station, where new dual-fuel turbines replace decades-old peaking units and extend a century-long pattern of reinvention at one

Just hours before his flight back to work on Aug. 24, 2026, seafarer John Cris Tropicales watched his younger brother graduate with a bachelor’s degree in criminology, reported Ulysses “Chuckie” Rivera, community relations manager for Quezon Power (Philippines) Ltd. Co. (QPL) and San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. (SBPL). It was a milestone that the Tropicales […]

As rental boiler programs expand across the industry, suppliers describe a shift from emergency-only stopgaps to planned capacity and redundancy strategy. When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Late in construction of Total Hydrogen Solutions’ new hydrogen plant in Katy, Texas, someone cut and stole the incoming high-voltage cable. The theft forced a complete replacement of the affected run just as the team was preparing for utility energization. “It was a frustrating hurdle, but the team coordinated the replacement and kept moving toward […]

When Arevon Energy needed someone to lead financing on Nighthawk, a 300-MW/1,200-MWh battery storage project the company had been working on when Nimmi Kavasery came onboard as the managing director of Project Finance, she made “a battlefield promotion,” handing the lead role to Jack Southard—someone she’d only observed peripherally and who had never run a […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 28, 2026 Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates Electric utility Georgia Power and tech giant Google said the companies have an agreement under which Google will support power uprates at two of the utility's nuclear power […]

A shorted rotor winding doesn’t care what year it is. Neither does a cracked retaining ring or a degraded stator insulation system. The physical mechanisms that take generators offline—fatigue

On Aug. 30, workers at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Michigan, began loading 204 fuel assemblies into a reactor vessel that had sat empty since the plant shut down in 2022—the first time in U.S. history that a commercial reactor that had entered decommissioning began reloading fuel. Holtec International Chairman and CEO Dr. […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 23, 2026 Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates Electric utility Georgia Power and tech giant Google said the companies have an agreement under which Google will support power uprates at two of the utility's nuclear power […]

Critical Insights on Powering What's Next Sponsored by: There's no single answer to what comes next in power generation. This edition of Critical Insights looks across the timeline: new gas-fired plants adding capacity and flexibility today, and how gas can get cleaner, from upstream methane sourcing to combined-cycle design; the role of nuclear in the […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 17 announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, a $215 million initiative to fund private-sector teams racing to build the world’s first fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computer. Structured as a milestone-based competition rather than a conventional grant, it will pay out fixed awards of up to $1.5 million per […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 14, 2026 Ansaldo Returns to U.S. Gas Turbine Market as Equipment Crunch Widens Supplier Field A widening gas turbine supply crunch has prompted Ansaldo Energia to explore a new path back into the U.S. generation market after more than 30 years. […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 8, 2026 Can U.S. High-Voltage Grid Equipment Supply Keep Pace With 765-kV Expansion and Data Center Demand? From two-year bushing lead times and hyperscaler demand to U.S. manufacturing expansion and the emerging 765-kV build-out, Trench Group CEO Bahadir Basdere explains where […]

NextEra Energy says an artificial intelligence (AI)–driven dispatch and outage-scheduling tool has saved its customers more than $20 million so far this year. Santee Cooper expects a custom AI weather-forecasting model to help it avoid spot-market purchases that can cost $100,000 an hour during extreme weather. Both utilities say the tools moved from concept to […]