Aaron Larson

Ontario took its most decisive step yet toward building Canada’s first large-scale nuclear station in more than three decades, directing the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to enter a cost-sharing and recovery agreement with Bruce Power to advance pre-construction work on the proposed Bruce C project. The agreement, announced on May 7 by Energy and […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   May 6, 2026 FERC Sets June Deadline to Rewrite Large-Load Grid Rules for AI-Era Power Demand The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has set a June 2026 deadline to act in a high-stakes rulemaking that could redefine how massive new power users—including […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   May 12, 2026 77 Miles, One Drone: Rewriting the Rules of Infrastructure Inspection Transmission corridors can be difficult to inspect, sometimes requiring helicopters and boots on the ground. A Daytona Beach, Florida, company is using drones to improve the process—at roughly a […]

Transmission corridors can be difficult to inspect, sometimes requiring helicopters and boots on the ground. A Daytona Beach, Florida, company is using drones to improve the process—at roughly a quarter of

On April 7, the Maine House voted 82–62 to advance Legislative Document (LD) 307, a bill sponsored by Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport, that would impose a moratorium on artificial intelligence (AI) data

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 29, 2026 Fusion Energy Group Seeks PJM Connection for First Commercial Power Plant A U.S.-based fusion energy company has become the first such group to apply to join a major power grid operator. Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on April 28 […]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a sweeping new licensing framework designed to push microreactors out of the lab and onto the grid at unprecedented speed. The proposed rule, called Part 57, is paired with a broader agency overhaul that earlier this year created the Office of Advanced Reactors (OAR), headed by longtime […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 27, 2026 Death Toll from Boiler Explosion at Vedanta's India Coal Power Plant Rises to 24, Triggers Probes A catastrophic boiler explosion at Vedanta Limited's Chhattisgarh Thermal Power Plant (VLCTPP) in east‑central India has left scores of workers dead and injured, […]

Corporate America has become one of the most consequential forces shaping the U.S. electricity system. Speaking as a guest on The POWER Podcast, Rich Powell, CEO of the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), explained how the country’s largest energy buyers are responding to unprecedented demand growth, betting on a widening mix of clean technologies, and […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a subsequent license renewal (SLR) for Duke Energy’s Robinson Nuclear Plant, clearing the 54-year-old reactor to continue generating electricity in the Pee Dee region through 2050. The decision, announced on Thursday, comes roughly a year after Duke Energy filed its renewal application in April 2025. It extends Robinson’s […]

After decades of relatively flat electricity demand, the U.S. power sector is suddenly racing to keep up—and rural electric cooperatives, which serve 42 million people across 54% of the nation’s land mass, are feeling the squeeze as acutely as anyone. As a guest on The POWER Podcast, Jim Matheson, CEO of the National Rural Electric […]

POWER Magazine   Why POWER? Gas Power   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 15, 2026 Full Throttle: Five Trends Reshaping the Gas Power Boom A once-predictable industry is moving at hyperscale speed. Here are five trends defining the biggest gas power buildout in a generation. Natural gas power is […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 13, 2026 Chernobyl at 40: The World’s Worst Nuclear Power Accident and Where It Stands Now On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning […]

On April 7, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a coalition of 12 major technology companies marshaling a new frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. While the announcement is framed around technology infrastructure broadly, the implications for the power sector are immediate and serious. Partner posts […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 9, 2026 Westinghouse Files to Update AP1000 Design Certification, Make Vogtle Expansion the U.S. Reference Plant Westinghouse has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to renew and update the design certification for its AP1000 reactor, formally proposing Vogtle Unit 4’s as‑built […]

Cassidy DeLine has spent more than 16 years developing renewable power plants. Now, as the founder and CEO of Linea Energy, she’s building an independent power producer that she believes can do the work better, not by tearing up the playbook, but by running every play better. As a guest on The Power Podcast, DeLine […]

A Florida-based startup intends to build factory-produced nuclear systems designed to fit in shipping containers and run for 30 years without refueling. Here’s how the technology works—and where it stands. The global appetite for electricity is surging. Data centers, industrial electrification, and perhaps a coming wave of humanoid robotics are layering exponential demand onto a […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 8, 2026 Hyperscalers Sign White House Pledge to Fund Data Center Power, Grid Upgrades Seven of the nation's largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies and hyperscalers signed a White House-brokered agreement committing to build, procure, or fund new generation capacity sufficient to […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   April 6, 2026 Southwest Power Pool Announces Expansion of Service Territory The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) said it has successfully expanded its service territory. The SPP's expanded operations took effect on April 1, and tThe regional transmission organization, or RTO, is now […]

Dr. Dario Gil, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Under Secretary for Science, lays out a bold vision to double the productivity of U.S. research and development (R&D) within a decade—and explains why energy and artificial intelligence (AI) are two sides of the same coin. After 22 years at IBM, where he rose to senior vice […]

The power industry finds itself in an uncomfortable bind. Demand for electricity is surging, driven by data center buildouts, broad electrification, and the retirement of aging coal fleets, but the equipment

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   March 30, 2026 Anatomy of a Blackout: Findings from the Spain-Portugal Grid Collapse Final Report An analysis of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) Expert Panel’s final report on the April 28, 2025, Iberian Peninsula power grid incident. […]

With federal tax credits under threat and regulatory stability in short supply, Bala Nagarajan, managing director of the energy investments team at S2G Investments, explained what he looks for in a company. “Is the product or the solution sold by this business cheaper, faster, better than the incumbent solution?” he asked. If so, it’s worth […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   March 25, 2026 A Historic First: NRC Clears TerraPower's Natrium Nuclear Reactor for Construction The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized staff to issue a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming—the first commercial reactor the agency…   […]

An analysis of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) Expert Panel’s final report on the April 28, 2025, Iberian Peninsula power grid incident. On a mild, sunny Monday in late April 2025, the power grids of Spain and Portugal collapsed in less than 90 seconds. At 12:33 p.m. Central European Summer […]

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources convened March 19 for a full committee hearing to examine the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) implementation of President Trump’s May 2025 nuclear energy executive orders. Three witnesses—DOE Assistant Secretary Theodore Garrish, Kairos Power CEO Dr. Michael Laufer, and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Director Dr. John C. Wagner—testified, […]

The power industry is staring down a workforce crisis. An aging labor force is heading for the exits, new recruits aren’t arriving fast enough to replace them, and a historic wave of energy infrastructure investment is only widening the gap. Against that backdrop, a partnership between Stony Brook University and Haugland Group—an infrastructure services company […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   March 18, 2026 Solar Adds 43 GW in 2025; Fifth Straight Year as Top New Generation Source A new report from a leading solar industry group and a top energy data analytics firm said about 43 GW of new solar power generation […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   March 16, 2026 DOE Unveils Initiative to Add 5 GW of Nuclear Capacity Through Uprates and Restarts The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a new initiative to increase U.S. nuclear generating capacity—targeting 2.5 GW of additional nuclear capacity by 2027 […]

For much of the 21st century, the North American power sector drifted along on near-zero demand growth. Utilities retired aging coal plants, developers filled interconnection queues with wind and solar, and investors looked elsewhere for excitement. Then came the data center boom—and seemingly overnight, the industry found itself in a full-blown supply crisis. In a […]