Gas
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Legal & Regulatory
Why a Calmer Summer Outlook Hasn’t Settled the Capacity Question
A milder reliability assessment, 58 GW of new resources, and softening load forecasts have eased the near-term mood. Analysts and executives warn the breathing room is borrowed time. For the first time in
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Data Centers
A Republican and a Democrat Walk Into EEI—and Agree on Data Centers
Brian Kemp is a Republican. Katie Hobbs is a Democrat. The governor of Georgia campaigns on tax cuts and a growth agenda; the governor of Arizona calls herself a social worker who came to the job from a
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Data Centers
Blue Energy, GE Vernova Advance ‘Gas Bridge’ Model to Unlock Nuclear Finance
At a recent energy conference, power sector stakeholders agreed the looming fleet of hyperscale data centers will require vast amounts of clean, firm capacity. But while nuclear looks like the most plausible
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Hybrid Power
Cogeneration’s Advantage: Efficiency, Resilience, and the Case for Captured Heat
The average U.S. power plant wastes two-thirds of its fuel as heat, yet the technology to capture it has existed for decades—and already powers 30% or more of the grid in parts of Europe.
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Gas
On-Demand Webinar: Simplifying real-time natural gas monitoring with integrated process Raman and flow measurement
Sponsored by:Thermo Fisher ScientificThis webinar explores an integrated approach to natural gas monitoring that combines real-time, in-line process Raman spectroscopy with advanced flow measurement and control. Process Raman technology provides continuous gas composition and heating value (BTU) measurements, while the flow computer platform delivers standardized flow calculations, operational monitoring, and remote visibility from wellhead to pipeline. Attendees will […]
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Trends
GE Vernova Highlights More Generation, Carbon Reductions, New Technologies in Sustainability Report
Energy giant GE Vernova said the company continues to advance electrification and decarbonization goals as it adds more generation capacity to global power grids. The company on June 17 released its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting its emphasis on bringing new innovation and breakthrough technologies to the power generation space.
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Press Releases
MiCo Acquires Global HRSG Leader NEM Energy
MiCo Co. Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Hyundai Heavy Industries Power Systems Co. Ltd. (HPS), has signed a share purchase agreement (SPA) to acquire a 100% stake in Netherlands-based NEM Energy B.V. from Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, a German-listed investment firm. The transaction, which includes NEM Energy’s German subsidiary NEM Balcke-Dürr GmbH, is scheduled […]
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Partner Content
Backup Power’s Shift From Insurance Policy to Grid Asset
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For ages, diesel generators have sat behind hospitals and on campuses waiting to do one job: provide power for a few hours each year when the lights inexplicably go out. Today, the narrative is changing—and fast. When U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright wrote to the nation’s grid operators on Jan. 22, 2026, asking them […]
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Gas
Texas Utility Building New 570-MW Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant
A Texas-based power producer has broken ground on a new natural gas-fired power plant that is part of the state’s plan to increase its supply of dispatchable electricity.
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Legal & Regulatory
From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat
System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades, the U.S. power system treated extreme heat as a tail risk, managed through seasonal readiness—something for which to prepare. But hotter conditions are now arriving […]
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Trends
Five Winters After Uri: Why Winter Readiness Must Go Beyond Weatherization
From EOP-012-3 to Order 587-AB, from Cold Weather Critical Component inventories to dual-fuel conversions, the bulk power system has spent five years rewiring how it prepares for extreme cold. Winter Storm Fern, the latest test, showed the system ran “very close to the edge.” The last five winters have given the North American power sector […]
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Gas
MD&A Positions Itself as Alternative Source for 7FA and 7EA Gas Turbine Rotor Life Extensions
With hundreds of 7FA and 7EA gas turbines approaching end-of-life thresholds and industry-wide constraints on forgings and shop capacity, MD&A has invested a decade in reverse engineering, supply chain development, and production of rotor components to offer utilities an independent path forward. The gas turbine bubble of 2000 to 2004 saw between 600 and 700 […]
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Data Centers
From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid
Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical nature of modern artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is such that there is no tolerance of downtime. Further measures must be in place to ensure energy […]
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Gas
Record Power Burn Expected This Summer as Coal Retirements and Data Centers Drive Gas Demand
U.S. natural gas supply is expected to reach a record 117 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) this summer, including 111.7 Bcf/d of dry gas production, but growing demand from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, data center load, industrial activity, and power generation is absorbing much of that growth, leaving less gas available for storage […]
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Data Centers
A Middleware Approach to AI-Ready Power Asset
Sponsored by:Yokogawa Systems GroupHow industrial middleware unlocks the full value of operational data AI and why most AI programs fail without it Power companies are being asked to deliver higher reliability while their operating environment becomes more dynamic. Conventional power generation: must run with greater flexibility, grid assets must absorb new load patterns, renewable portfolios must operate […]
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Gas
Wärtsilä, Origem Energia Partner on Brazilian Power Plant 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.
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Gas
GE Vernova Modernizing Türkiye’s Power Generation With Country’s First H-Class Gas Turbine
GE Vernova announced the start of commercial operation of the 852-MW Kırklareli power plant in Türkiye. The natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station, featuring GE Vernova’s 9HA.02 gas turbine, is the first in that country to use an H-class product.
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Gas
Fast Power for a Constrained Grid: Wet Compression Applications in Gas Turbines
There has never been a time when so much power was needed so fast. Driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, more data center capacity is in development or under construction now than has been built in all of history. According to analyst firm Industrial Info Resources (IIR), each month of 2025 saw at least […]
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Gas
Investment Group Acquires 530-MW Gas-Fired Power Plant in Texas
A global investment firm that manages about $22 billion in assets said it has acquired a majority of the equity interests in New Frontera Holdings, which includes a 530-MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle generation station in Mission, Texas.
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Fuel
Beyond Carbon: How Emerging Fuels and Technologies Can Help
For years, the case for emerging fuels and technologies has often been told through the lens of decarbonization. That lens still matters, but it does not reflect the entire value proposition. Energy strategy is now being shaped by artificial intelligence (AI)/data centers, policy volatility, geopolitical disruption, supply-chain constraints, rising system complexity, and rapidly rising demand, […]
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Top Plant
POWER Reveals 2026 Awards Finalists; Readers to Choose Plant of the Year
POWER is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2026 POWER Awards, recognizing the projects, people, and organizations setting the pace for the global power industry. Winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony at Experience POWER in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, at 5 p.m. New this year: the Plant of the […]
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Trends
PJM’s First Reformed Queue Cycle Draws 811 Projects, 220 GW
PJM Interconnection’s first interconnection “cycle” under its revamped, clustered review process has attracted 811 new generation projects representing roughly 220 GW of nameplate capacity. The effort now moves to a validation phase, under which the grid operator will confirm that applicants have met baseline technical and financial requirements—including site control and readiness commitments—before advancing qualified […]
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Power Demand
How American-Made Steel Supports Oil & Gas, Nuclear and Renewable Energy Growth
Sponsored by:NucorGlobal energy demand is outpacing supply, driving the need for expanded and more reliable infrastructure across oil and gas, nuclear, and renewable energy systems. Steel is essential to building and connecting this infrastructure, delivering the strength, durability, and performance required to operate in extreme environments and at scale. American-made steel provides consistent quality, material traceability, […]
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Hybrid Power
Most Generators Run Inefficiently
Sponsored by:ANAMost diesel generators operate at less than 40% of their rated capacity, significantly reducing efficiency and increasing fuel consumption. Hybrid power systems are emerging as a practical solution. In this White Paper, the ANA Hybrid Power Systems Team discuss the problems of traditional diesel generators, and how the EBOSS® Hybrid Energy System is changing how […]
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Sustainability
How Corporate Energy Buyers Are Reshaping the U.S. Grid: CEBA CEO Rich Powell on Data Centers, Nuclear, and Permitting Reform
Corporate America has become one of the most consequential forces shaping the U.S. electricity system. Speaking as a guest on The POWER Podcast, Rich Powell, CEO of the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), explained how the country’s largest energy buyers are responding to unprecedented demand growth, betting on a widening mix of clean technologies, and […]
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Commentary
Rethinking Load Growth: New Partnerships Between Power Developers and Midstream Natural Gas Companies
The race to bring new power online has intensified with data centers and other large loads pushing electricity demand to levels never seen before. Utilities are signing power purchase agreements, independent power producers (IPPs) are scrambling to interconnect new generation, and distributed power providers are stepping in where the grid cannot move fast enough. Amid the fight for electrons, a source of clean, reliable electricity is being systematically overlooked.
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Energy Security
Cuba’s First Biomethane Plant: Renewable Fuel for Buses and Electricity
The Cuban state-owned Cuba Petroleo (Cupet) announced in April 2026, via its Facebook page, that Cuba’s first biomethane plant, located in the municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, has progressed to its final assembly and production phase. Edrey Rocha González, Cupet’s general director, supervised the work on this facility, designed to produce biomethane to fuel buses […]
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Technology
China Restarting Massive Coal-to-Gas Project After Decade-Long Pause
Chinese officials have said they will revive a multibillion-dollar coal gasification project, in part due to global gas supply disruptions caused by the U.S. and Isreal’s war with Iran.
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Gas
Japanese Group Proposes $2-Billion Gas-Fired Power Plant for Hawaii
Japan’s largest power generation company has made a proposal to invest $2 billion for construction of a 500-MW combined-cycle and simple-cycle natural gas-fired power plant on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
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Gas
Rehlko, INNIO Have Deal For 1.25 GW of Gas Engine Capacity
Energy resilience solutions provider Rehlko said that it has entered into a multi-year strategic engine framework agreement with INNIO Group, securing the supply of about 1.25 GW of gas engine capacity over the next three years.