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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… […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 23, 2024 Amazon Backs Massive Nuclear SMR Deployment: 5 GW with X-Energy, Agreements With Energy Northwest, Dominion In yet another major set of deals spearheaded by a tech giant in support of nuclear power development, Amazon will back the deployment of […]

Microreactors are a class of very small modular reactors targeted for non-conventional nuclear markets. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports a variety of advanced reactor designs, including gas, liquid-metal, molten-salt, and heat-pipe-cooled concepts. In the U.S., microreactor developers are currently focused on designs that could be deployed as early as the mid-2020s. The key […]

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 regional load growth and enable the BPA to add thousands of megawatts of new wind and solar generation, and battery storage to the federal grid. Combined, the […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 14, 2024 Severe Solar Storm Threatens Power Grid Amid Hurricane Helene, Milton Recovery UPDATED (Oct. 11): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has upgraded its G4-level "severe" geomagnetic storm watch to a G3-level "strong" geomagnetic storm warning after an anticipated […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 7, 2024 $1.5B Federal Boost for Four Major Transmission Projects as DOE Unveils National Grid Study The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded capacity contracts of up to $1.5 billion to four major transmission lines under its Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) to […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 2, 2024 Helene’s Historic Devastation Spurs Largest-Ever Mutual Aid Response, Signals Power Sector Reckoning Electric cooperatives across the Southeast describe Hurricane Helene's devastation as vast and unprecedented, warning that restoring some crucial infrastructure serving the not-for-profit entities’ customers will take a […]

Oil shale doesn’t fuel a lot of power plants around the world, but in Jordan, it’s a vital option, offering energy security and independence. The success of the Attarat Power Plant in capitalizing on this

Earlier this year, POWER partnered with Best Companies Group (BCG), an organization dedicated to identifying and recognizing outstanding workplaces across various industries, to launch our Best Places to Work

Historically, generator inspections require rotor removal (Figure 3). There’s a significant level of risk during this process due to possible generator damage during the disassembly, and it also requires

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 30, 2024 Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers Google's top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in […]

In May, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS released additional guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) domestic content bonus, part of President Biden’s economic strategy to boost American manufacturing, and iron and steel production. The domestic content bonus credit is available to taxpayers that certify their qualified facility, energy project, or energy […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 25, 2024 Project Pele, DOD’s HTGR Mobile Nuclear Microreactor, Breaks Ground Groundbreaking has kicked off at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where Project Pele—the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) full-scale transportable microreactor prototype—will be placed for testing in 2026. When operational, the reactor… […]

Fusion energy is a promising form of power generation that aims to harness the same process that powers the sun and stars. Fusion involves combining two light atomic nuclei to form a heavier nucleus, releasing a large amount of energy in the process. This is the opposite of nuclear fission, which splits heavy atoms apart. […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 18, 2024 Impact of the IRA on U.S. Renewable Energy Manufacturing and Supply Chains The Inflation Reduction Act  was designed to enhance domestic manufacturing and secure domestic supply chains. The act, signed by President Biden in 2022, was sponsored by Sens. […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 16, 2024 How Trump or Harris Would Alter the U.S.’s Energy and Power Landscape A new U.S. president will be inaugurated in about four months. Polls show the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to be very close, with potentially […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 12, 2024 $2.33 Billion Solar-Plus-Storage Project Set in Nevada A solar-plus-storage project valued at more than $2.33 billion is preparing for construction after receiving a Record of Decision (ROD) from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Arevia Power on… GE Vernova […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   September 11, 2024 Major Project Rejected in Texas' Flagship Dispatchable Power Loan Program The Texas Energy Fund (TEF), a flagship loan program designed to boost the state's dispatchable generation, faced its first setback when the Public Utility Commission of Texas… Sponsored Content […]