San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI), a not-for-profit generation and transmission rural electric cooperative located in Atascosa County, Texas, was awarded more than $1.4 billion through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. With the money, SMECI, which operates a mine-mouth lignite-fired power plant, said it will convert its lignite […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 30, 2024 Virginia Officials Say State Will Be Home to World's First Fusion Power Plant Virginia's governor and other officials said the state has a plan for the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it…   […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 26, 2024 Coal-Fired Delaware Plant Will Close Two Years Early Officials with PJM Interconnection said a coal-fired power unit in Delaware can be closed two years ahead of schedule. The grid operator this month announced the Indian River Unit 4,…   […]

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, reported power outages across large areas of the country after Russia fired missiles against DTEK power stations in strikes on Christmas day. DTEK said it was the 13th massive attack on Ukrainian energy systems this year, and the 10th to target DTEK power stations. At least one long-time power […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 24, 2024 Flamanville 3 Reactor Online in France After 12-Year Delay The largest nuclear reactor in France is finally providing power to the country's grid, more than a decade after it was expected to enter commercial operation. Flamanville 3, an EPR… […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 23, 2024 Siemens Energy Joins Forces for Bold 100% Hydrogen HL Gas Turbine Leap Siemens Energy is teaming with UK power giant SSE to develop a combustion system that will allow its flagship SGT5-9000HL gas turbine to run 100% on hydrogen […]

Most POWER readers are probably familiar with levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and levelized value of energy (LVOE) as metrics used to help evaluate potential power plant investment options. LCOE measures the average net present cost of electricity generation over a facility’s lifetime. It includes capital costs, fuel costs, operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, financing […]

50Hertz, the transmission system operator (TSO) for eastern Germany, has awarded its Ostwind 4 project to GE Vernova, in consortium with Drydocks World, a DP World company that provides marine and offshore services to the renewable energy sector, among others. The project involves the design, construction, and commissioning of a 2-GW high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) electric […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 16, 2024 Largest Pennsylvania Coal-Fired Plant Will Convert to Natural Gas A major Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, the largest coal-burning facility in the state before it was closed in 2023, may be converted to a natural gas-fired station. Officials in Homer… […]

Steam is used for a wide variety of critical processes across many industrial sectors. For example, the food and beverage industry uses steam for sterilization of food processing equipment; cooking, pasteurization, and sterilization of food products; cleaning and sanitizing production lines; and providing heat for various food preparation processes. Pulp and paper facilities use steam […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 9, 2024 EPRI Develops Power System Generic Models to Plan for an Increasingly Net-Zero Grid Planning and operating a power system requires detailed grid studies to guide investment decisions and prepare for how the system may evolve over time. Long-term planning […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   December 4, 2024 Southern CEO: Data Center Demand, Regulatory Changes Could Keep Coal-Fired Units Online Utilities recognizing the need to produce more electricity, in part to satisfy demand from data centers, may keep coal-fired units in operation longer than anticipated. A lessening […]

Hydrogen is becoming increasingly important to the electric power generation industry for several reasons. One is that hydrogen offers a promising pathway to decarbonize the power sector. When used in fuel cells or burned for electricity generation, hydrogen produces only water vapor as a byproduct, making it a zero-emission energy source. This is crucial for […]

Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about data centers and the enormous amount of electrical power they are expected to demand as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms scale up and become more

ABB Electrification Service recently launched a digital monitoring solution for power and distribution transformers that it says will enhance performance, reliability, and availability of equipment. The transformer sensor is reportedly quick and easy to fit, requiring no screws or tooling for installation. Instead, the sensor, called TRAFCOM, can be mounted magnetically to the transformer within […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 27, 2024 Trump's Focus on Energy Will Have Variety of Impacts President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has made the U.S. energy industry a focus of its plans for his first days in office, with analysts and energy experts expecting a rollback… […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 26, 2024 NRC Approves Construction of First Electricity-Producing Gen IV Reactor in the U.S. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken a historic step by voting to issue construction permits for Kairos Power's 70-MWth Hermes 2, a “low power” advanced test […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 25, 2024 Trump Picks Oil and Gas Executive as New Energy Secretary President-elect Donald Trump announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of Denver, Colorado-based Liberty Energy, will lead the Department of Energy (DOE) in the new administration. "I am […]

Power plant construction and retrofit projects come in all shapes and sizes, but they all generally have at least one thing in common: complexity. There are usually a lot of moving pieces that must be managed. This can include sourcing the right materials and components, getting equipment delivered to the site at the right time, […]

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One of the biggest challenges the nuclear power industry faces is building plants on time and on budget. Having an experienced project team with the right leaders driving the bus, so to speak, can mean the

In a strategic move to reduce its heavy dependence on Russian natural gas, Belarus has successfully completed its first nuclear power plant (NPP). The Belarusian NPP, featuring two VVER-1200 reactors, now

A collaboration between startup Atomic Canyon and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory allowed construction of a sentence-embedding model using 53 million pages of Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents

At the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last December, 25 countries underlined the role of nuclear energy in their climate strategies by issuing a

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 11, 2024 Power Shift: Trump’s Energy Agenda Sparks Cautious Optimism, Climate Concerns Tuesday’s election, which will return Donald Trump to the White House and grant the U.S. Senate a Republican majority, could have sizeable implications for the power industry. In reactions […]

On Dec. 22, 2008, a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Kingston Fossil Plant. The failure resulted in the release of approximately 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilling onto adjacent land and into the Emory River. The Kingston spill is considered […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 6, 2024 Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence recently said its research shows data centers, buildings filled… […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   November 4, 2024 $3B in Transmission Substation and Line Projects Proposed in Pacific Northwest The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has identified 13 new transmission substation and line projects designed to reinforce the Pacific Northwest’s electric grid. If constructed, these projects would accommodate […]

You don’t need me to tell you how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the power grid; you can just ask AI. Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic, told POWER, “AI training and inference are driving unprecedented demand for data center capacity, particularly due to large language models and other compute-intensive AI workloads.” It also […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 28, 2024 A Breakdown of Cuba’s Grid Collapse and Recovery Efforts Cuba is in the throes of a severe energy crisis, driven by fuel supply disruptions and compounded by obstacles in securing vital technologies and supplies needed to modernize and operate… […]