Aaron Larson

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 […]

Utilities and independent power producers have spent years adding sensors to their generating fleets and creating dashboards to view what they relay. But visibility into how a plant is operating isn’t the same as knowing what to do about it—and that gap is where Siemens Energy’s Omnivise Energy Management System is increasingly shedding light, explained […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 2, 2026 NVIDIA, Cloverleaf Partnering to Advance Data Center Development Technology giant NVIDIA is furthering its support of artificial intelligence (AI) and data center construction. Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a group that supports the AI buildout by providing power sources and infrastructure… PJM […]

The wait for a large gas turbine now runs longer than the time it takes to design, permit, and build the plant it will sit in. Order one today from any of the three largest manufacturers, and the delivery slot

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   August 31, 2026 U.S. Army Mobilizes $2.2B Janus Program to Deploy More Than 20 Commercial Microreactors The U.S. Army has mobilized up to $2.2 billion for a five-year effort to build and operate more than 20 commercial nuclear microreactors across military installations, […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   August 26, 2026 U.S. Army Mobilizes $2.2B Janus Program to Deploy More Than 20 Commercial Microreactors The U.S. Army has mobilized up to $2.2 billion for a five-year effort to build and operate more than 20 commercial nuclear microreactors across military installations, […]

As artificial intelligence (AI)–driven data center demand strains grid infrastructure across the U.S. and beyond, operators are facing rising scrutiny from utilities, regulators, and the communities where they build. Caspar Herzberg, CEO of industrial software company AVEVA, argues that the industry’s response can’t stop at sustainability commitments—it requires operational transparency and measurable performance data that […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   August 17, 2026 Brookfield, NextEra to Develop $100B Data Center Campus at DOE's Paducah Site, Paired With 4.6 GW of Dedicated Generation A coalition led by Brookfield and NextEra Energy has unveiled plans to build a $100 billion, privately funded artificial intelligence […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   August 12, 2026 LS Power Acquiring 606-MW Texas Gas-Fired Plant From Constellation A New York-headquartered group that pursues investments in North American power and energy infrastructure said it has a deal to acquire a natural gas-fired power plant near Houston, Texas.   […]