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The nation’s electric grid depends heavily on foreign-made equipment, much of it from China. Depending on how the Dept. of Energy (DOE) chooses to implement Executive Order 14421 through its pending rulemaking for national security purposes, it has the potential to prohibit fully any Chinese-made equipment on the transmission grid. COMMENTARY The significance of Executive […]

The data center buildout underway across North America is charging ahead at full speed and may even surpass original forecasts. Facility owners are no longer planning incremental expansions. The demand for data, driven by the rapid adoption and maturation of artificial intelligence (AI), now has them planning in gigawatts. Demand has increased; expectations have changed, […]

Data centers do what any industry would to continue operations during a power outage: Quickly pivot to their own emergency energy. As reported in several media outlets, a 10-minute grid outage in late July of this year on the East Coast caused data centers to hop off the main grid and switch over to their […]

Power plants have largely optimized individual assets. The next opportunity lies in how assets, resources, and operating decisions work together. Power producers are experts at optimizing equipment. Decades of advancement in engineering and operating practices have improved the performance of gas turbines, pumps, steam systems and other critical assets. Operators can measure unit-level performance in […]

Power plants generate a large amount of maintenance and inspection information every day. Operators complete rounds. Technicians document repairs. Contractors submit reports. Engineers review abnormal conditions. Reliability teams analyze failures. Asset managers track age, condition, criticality, and replacement plans. The challenge is not always that power generation facilities lack data. The challenge is that much […]

The systems used to design, operate, manage and insure energy infrastructure are struggling to keep pace with the rapid buildout of new power capacity, according to a new report by commercial property insurer FM. The FM Power & Renewables Report examines how the rapid expansion of power infrastructure, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, […]

A South Korean power plant needed a coating that could survive corrosive condensates without sacrificing heat transfer—the industry’s usual workaround for that trade-off fell short.

America is in the middle of one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in generations. Data centers are rising to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Battery plants and advanced manufacturing facilities are reshaping industrial regions. Renewable energy projects continue to expand, while new transmission infrastructure is being built to connect generation with growing demand. […]

For too many industrial organizations, lubrication is a mere maintenance task, a routine chore performed without strategic consideration. This oversight ignores the profound impact that lubrication has on asset reliability and, by extension, overall business performance. Achieving lubrication excellence often requires the support of a dedicated, full-service lubrication solutions provider rather than reliance on transactional […]

A leading North American fuel cell manufacturer encountered a significant component challenge. The need was for a non-return valve that could ensure uncompromising safety, reliable performance, and consistent operational integrity in advanced fuel cell systems. Standard, off-the-shelf options did not meet strict requirements for low pressure drop, zero leakage, and material compatibility. WITT Gas Controls […]

The pace of change in energy markets has never been faster. Price signals that once evolved over days now shift within settlement windows. Geopolitical shocks that once took weeks to propagate through commodity markets now ripple across interconnected European power grids and global liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply chains in hours. And amid this acceleration, […]

California-headquartered Pacific Fusion announced that a pulsed-power prototype designed and built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has surpassed 3,000 shots under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the company. Pacific Fusion on July 16 said this marks a key milestone in the development of high-gain fusion, and provides a practical example of government-industry […]

What was the biggest engineering achievement of the 20th century? The automobile? Space flight? The internet? According to the National Academy of Engineering, it was in fact the electric power grid—the one thing underpinning nearly all of them. Centralized electricity has literally powered the growth of the U.S. economy and quality of life for decades. […]

AI-driven load growth is putting significant strain on the grid, intensifying pressure on utilities and developers to secure firm capacity and meet increasingly compressed delivery timelines. While tools such as transmission optimization can deliver incremental gains, they do not address the core issue: the pace of AI data center expansion is forcing a shift from […]

WeaveGrid, a grid-edge orchestration software provider for electric utilities, is collaborating with GM Energy to support access to utility programs across the country. The collaboration is aligned with General Motors’ vehicle-to-grid (V2G) efforts and is designed to help eligible Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac EV drivers participate in utility programs that can help support a more […]

Ore Energy, the Netherlands-based iron-air multi-day energy storage company, on June 22 announced an agreement with Budget Thuis, one of the largest Dutch energy suppliers, to deploy 1 GWh of iron-air long-duration energy storage (LDES).

REV Renewables (REV), an LS Power company and a developer, owner, and operator of renewable energy and energy storage projects, said the company marked a major milestone with the commissioning of its Tumbleweed Energy Storage facility in Kern County, California.

Soltec has announced that it is now able to provide PFE-compliant certification for its U.S. SFOne and SF7 series 1P and 2P trackers, reinforcing the company’s ability to support utility-scale solar projects in the U.S. under the new regulatory and market conditions.

Sunraycer Renewables LLC, a developer, owner, and operator of clean energy power sites, on May 14 announced the closing of a $901-million project financing facility to support three Texas-based solar power projects.

Technology group Wärtsilä has signed two equipment supply contracts with Origem Energia for the development of new balancing power projects in Brazil. The contracts announced May 13 cover the supply of two batches of 18 Wärtsilä 34SG balancing engines.

Florida-headquartered Star Catcher Industries said it has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, as the company continues its effort toward building the first space-based power grid. Star Catcher, based in Jacksonville, said the new investment—led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus […]

Protecting critical infrastructure is no longer just about guarding a perimeter; it is about ensuring the foundational productivity of our entire nation. From large power plants to remote substations, the sprawling, decentralized nature of our energy grid makes it a uniquely difficult target to defend.

Eagle Point Credit Management LLC, a private credit investment manager, said it has provided a $28.5-million senior secured term loan to Heritage Energy Storage DevCo I LLC, owned by Heritage Energy Holdings, LLC, a Texas-based solar and storage developer.

The Internal Revenue Service recently issued its long-awaited guidance on how to determine whether a clean energy project uses too much equipment from Chinese or other prohibited foreign entities to qualify for valuable federal clean energy tax.

Otovo, an artificial intelligence (AI)-native energy service provider for residential and commercial customers, announced the successful completion of a private placement raising about $16.6 million through the issuance of about 14.0 million new shares.

Caterpillar Inc, OnePWR Solutions and Vero3 announced a strategic collaboration focused on developing large-scale lower-carbon power generation and permanent carbon storage projects to support mission-critical facilities, including data center infrastructure. The parties on March 2 said they intend to collaborate on the design of a fully integrated solution combining natural gas–based prime power generation, carbon […]

Washington, D.C., has spent the past five years fixating on rare earths—where they’re mined, how they’re processed, and who controls the magnet supply chain. That attention is overdue. But the national conversation still stops one link too soon. The real compounding bottleneck isn’t just the magnets, it’s the motors and drives that use those magnets—traction […]

California-based Renewable Properties, a developer and investor in small-scale utility, community solar, energy storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure projects, said the company has surpassed $280 million in closed corporate and project capital facilities with national bank Pathward, N.A., and BridgePeak Energy Capital, a renewable energy loan originator and service provider to banks and private credit […]

Battery energy storage group FlexGen Power Systems said it has launched the latest version of FlexGen HybridOS, its hardware-agnostic energy management system (EMS), designed to unify and simplify the experience for battery storage and solar owners and operators with new capabilities that maximize site performance through real-time data and visibility.

A Massachusetts-headquartered nuclear energy company said it has received $33 million from a Series A funding round as the group scales its technology. Alva Energy on February 12 announced it has launched with a goal to support new electric power generation capacity from the existing U.S. reactor fleet.