Engineering

Battery energy storage systems are becoming essential infrastructure for a grid that increasingly depends on variable renewable generation. Their ability to respond quickly to changes in supply and demand makes storage uniquely valuable: batteries absorb excess generation, discharge when demand rises, and provide balancing services that help keep the grid stable. But as storage takes […]

For years, virtual power plants (VPPs) were treated by much of the power industry as a promising but niche experiment. A way to aggregate a modest pool of rooftop solar and residential resources and call it a grid resource. That framing no longer holds. In 2025 and through 2026, VPPs have moved much further into […]

For most of the past decade, energy storage developers have handled battery procurement themselves, building that expertise in-house, project after project. That is no longer the only path into the market. Large loads, including data centers and other big electricity users, now contract directly with construction firms to build storage systems themselves, bypassing developers entirely, […]

GE Vernova announced on Nov. 6 that it has been officially chosen by PowerGrid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) to deliver a critical 6-GW High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) transmission corridor. The project was booked in the fourth quarter of 2026. This project will serve as a vital energy highway, enabling the efficient transport of 6 GW […]

Satellite-based monitoring provides greater visibility of construction activities along the Rilland–Tilburg high-voltage connection, supporting efficient project supervision and targeted field inspections. As the Netherlands accelerates the expansion of its electricity grid to address growing demand and network congestion, transmission system operator TenneT is developing a major new high-voltage connection between Rilland and Tilburg. To help […]

State clean energy programs and the communities they’re meant to serve want the same thing. Both want more resilient, more affordable, cleaner power. And yet, across solar and storage programs throughout the U.S. Northeast, projects stall, applications bounce back and forth, and entire counties opt out of battery storage altogether. This is not because anyone […]

  About 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old, and utilities are now replacing aging assets while building new capacity for data centers, advanced manufacturing and transportation electrification. Steel transmission and distribution poles can offer longer service life, greater durability and lower maintenance requirements than wood. A domestic supply chain also […]

Failure rates have plunged even as installed capacity soars, but a fire that refuses to end at Moss Landing shows how much depends on design vintage, operating limits, and the equipment around the cells. At about 6 a.m. on Sept. 18, 2026, workers at the Moss Landing Power Plant in California spotted a flare-up along […]

A field demonstration on a 500-MW-class coal-fired unit shows how targeted fuel chemistry can mitigate severe slagging and fouling while delivering measurable operating benefits—including approximately 50% lower superheater spray demand, 53% lower reheat spray demand during comparable trial conditions, lower air preheater (APH) inlet gas temperatures, improved combustion flexibility, reduced selective catalytic reduction (SCR)-inlet NOx […]

  Modeling Pump Transients with Reverse Flow is a Datacor webinar with two speakers: Trey Walters, P.E., founder of of Impulse, and Nelius Hubert, principal process engineer at Sasol. Walters explains what causes pump transients, including pump trips, startups and valve-driven system changes, and why reverse flow and reverse rotation happen in uphill and parallel-pump […]

  Better Models Lead to Better Business Outcomes is an executive brief on the 2026 chemical industry outlook and the role of digital engineering tools in it. It describes a market expected to grow only about 2% amid tariffs, geopolitical instability and delayed capital spending, while advanced materials and semiconductor-related chemicals keep growing strongly. The […]

  Refine Before You Rebuild: How Simulation Keeps Refiners Ahead of Disruption is an executive brief on the forces reshaping global refining in 2026. These include U.S. and European refinery closures, crude mismatch, record biofuel mandates, and the ongoing disruption to Middle East supply. It looks at the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, […]

A famous aphorism goes like this: “Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result, is one definition of insanity.” In the world of electricity transmission, there is a direct corollary: adding more capital expense to a system that is already inherently broken doesn’t improve it or make it more reliable. That’s […]

Solar and battery storage developers spend enormous energy chasing deals to put megawatts on the grid. Site acquisition teams model annual production, interconnection queues get scrutinized, and financing packages get built around a preliminary layout drawn from public data. Yet, too often, projects run into cost overruns, delays, or are canceled entirely. What often gets […]

Artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, and electrification are increasing U.S. electricity demand. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimates data centers could account for 11.8% of electricity consumption by 2030, within a projected range of 9.5%–15.3%. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts electricity consumption to increase by approximately 2.2% in 2026 and a further 1.6% in […]

Activated metallic components generated during reactor operation, maintenance, and decommissioning rarely present a uniform packaging challenge. They can vary widely in shape, mass, dose rate, and radiation profile, and may include thimble plug assemblies (TPA), poison rod assemblies (PRA), reactor control cluster assemblies (RCCA), rod segments, and cut portions of vessel internals. Managing these materials […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) has offered Constellation Energy a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to finance nuclear power uprates and modernization at eight plants in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The proposed investments could add nearly 1.1 GW of generating capacity to the nation’s existing nuclear fleet. The commitment marks the agency’s […]

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, […]

Emerson’s Rosemount Annubar technology preserves valuable process energy by delivering reliable flow measurement in demanding liquid, steam, and gas applications. Differential pressure (DP) flow measurement remains one of the most widely used technologies in power generation, utilizing the pressure difference created by a primary element installed within a pipe. Various DP technologies are available, each […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the power requirements of modern data centers. At this point in the timeline of AI’s continued evolution, this statement should not be controversial. The deployment of increasingly large GPU clusters for training and inference purposes, such as NVIDIA’s 72-GPU Vera Rubin model, is causing rack power densities to climb from […]

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 […]

Four years after separating from Constellation Energy, Exelon is expanding its transmission business and pressing for a greater role in power generation. Executive Vice President Carim Khouzami explains why rising data center demand, tightening capacity reserves, and shortcomings in PJM’s wholesale markets are changing the utility company’s strategy. When Exelon completed its separation from Constellation […]

Emerald Horizon plans to sell a hybrid battery and molten-salt storage system now and add an accelerator-driven thorium generator later. The generator remains at an early stage of development. Austria decided against nuclear power in the late 1970s and has not revisited the question since, according to Mario Müller, vice president of research and development […]

  An Ecolab executive brief for fossil power plant operators, engineers, and specifiers focused on condensate polishing performance. The document argues that condensate polishing resin selection should be viewed as a turbine-life and asset-protection decision, not a commodity purchase. It identifies five critical resin characteristics that influence water quality, equipment protection, resin longevity, operating efficiency, […]

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, […]

  This eBook explains how organizations in the Power & Utilities industry can evolve from scattered, uncontrolled engineering information to a governed, connected, and AI-ready digital foundation. It introduces Asset Information Lifecycle Management (AILM) as the extension of engineering document control across the full asset lifecycle—keeping engineering records aligned with the physical plant as assets […]

  This customer webinar brings together engineering and IT leaders from Eversource, Great River Energy, and Hoosier Energy to share how their utilities moved from fragmented drawing storage to centralized Engineering Document Management. Through firsthand experiences, the panel explores the risks of shared drives, paper drawings, conflicting revisions, and tribal knowledge—and how a single source […]

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

Restoring customer supply is not the same event as restoring a process plant. Sarnia’s 2003 outages show why power-system resilience has to be carried through safe shutdown, utilities, environmental controls, and staged restart. The Grid Event Was Only the First Failure State At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the Northeast blackout began to pull […]

A high-voltage insulator can look unchanged for years while its operating environment steadily alters the conditions on its surface. Salt carried inland from a coast, industrial residue, road dust, moisture, ultraviolet radiation, and repeated weather cycles create an exposure history that can influence electrical performance and maintenance demands long before an asset reaches a predetermined […]