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Officials in Virginia have voted to approve a plan for a massive natural gas-fired power plant in the central part of the state near the James River. Supervisors in Cumberland County, about an hour west of the state capital Richmond, on October 20 voted 3-1 in support of the Cumberland Energy Center, a 3,000-MW gas-fired […]

Data released by energy officials in India shows that more than half of the country’s coal-fired power units are operating with low stockpiles of fuel, as power demand surges and generation from other resources lags. The country’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on October 19 said 96 coal-fired units have critically low amounts of coal on […]

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 […]

Severe weather conditions have become constant. Cyclones, storms, heatwaves, floods, and droughts continue to put critical infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, and lives at risk in the U.S. and around the world. Heat waves and droughts are the second-deadliest weather category, causing critical infrastructure instability, power line inefficiency, thermal sagging, and overloaded transformers that can lead to […]

NTPC Limited, India’s largest electric utility, has signed a power purchase agreement with 247 Solar and will deploy that company’s Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology as part of its energy strategy. The companies on October 15 said it will mark the first commercial project for 247 Solar and its solar thermal tech. The Virginia-based company […]

Captona LLC, a North American investment firm, has announced its latest preferred equity investment in partnership with Nexamp, a fully-integrated distributed generation and community solar company. The investment announced October 13 support the financing of 55 MW of solar generation and 5 MWh of battery storage capacity across 10 projects in four states (Illinois, Maine, […]

This article draws on lessons from the first triennium of PSE&G’s Energy Efficiency (EE) program and how those experiences have helped shape our approach as the program has progressed. Intended for energy companies, industry peers and others involved in shaping or advancing energy efficiency efforts, the article shares insights on program management and delivery, customer […]

Pivot Energy, an impact-focused independent power producer of distributed-scale solar and energy storage, announced the closing of a $173-million term loan facility for a portfolio of 51 community-scale solar projects totaling 135 MW across six states. Long-time financial partners First Citizens Bank, Huntington Bank, and BankUnited provided the takeout financing. The facility refinances the projects […]

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) has commissioned Westinghouse Electric Co. to begin procuring long-lead items (LLIs) for the first AP1000 unit of the Lubiatowo-Kopalino nuclear power plant project. This is one of the most important stages in preparing for the start of construction and ensuring that the project is completed on schedule. “This is an extremely […]

When no suitable vessel was available to carry its gas turbine generators from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, the Rabigh Reinforcement project team turned to the heavy-lift charter market at a time when shipping conditions were already challenging. Drawing on its logistics experience and global agreements, the consortium engaged one of the […]

Wisconsin-based We Energies has announced a plan to build a new natural gas-fired power plant at the site of an existing gas-fired facility in the state. The utility earlier this month filed an engineering plan with state regulators for construction of a 750-MW station at the Fox Energy Center, in Wrightstown in the Fox Valley […]

When the heads of three of the power sector’s biggest trade associations shared a stage at Experience POWER on Sept. 30, the most notable thing was how little they disagreed. Whether the question was data center backlash, grid security, or what to do about gas-plant emissions rules, the answer came back to the same point: […]

This year’s Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX), whose programming POWER’s editors curated, was structured to look beyond the scale of opportunity presented by large-load forecasts and delve into the questions they raise. A key focus: What will it take to deliver power infrastructure and data centers on timelines, terms, and operating conditions that both industries […]

Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of upgrades at 11 nuclear units across the PJM Interconnection, which is slated to add 890 MW of generating capacity from Constellation’s existing reactors by the end of 2032. The […]

Energy infrastructure developer and investor LS Power said it has successfully closed the LS Power Equity Partners VI (Fund VI) with total fund commitments of about $6 billion. Fund VI, which was launched in January of this year, was oversubscribed and fully allocated against its hard cap by July, which was well in excess of […]

California-headquartered Clearway Energy Group said it has closed financing and begun construction of the Swan Energy Center, a 650-MW solar facility located on portions of formerly strip-mined land in northwestern Bates County, Missouri. The project is San Francisco-based Clearway’s first in Missouri. Its output is contracted under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The Swan array, […]

Fusion energy company Xcimer Energy said it has finalized an agreement for up to $30.5 million in additional federal funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The new DOE award, announced October 6, is for the program’s second budget period. It brings the total DOE funding for potential Milestone payments […]

Fit Energy, a developer of energy solutions for data center projects, has announced plans for a fuel cell power generation and data center project in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The project received township zoning approval for both uses in August of this year. Fit Energy on October 6 said engineering and the remaining permitting […]

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) has announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $4.2 billion to finance uprates and modernization at Vistra’s Beaver Valley nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and its Davis-Besse and Perry plants in Ohio. The projects could add 433 MW of new nuclear capacity and preserve […]

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, […]

U.S. grid planners are preparing for annual electricity demand growth of about 0.9% to 1.6% through 2050, with data centers emerging as a major driver, and EPRI—the Electric Power Research Institute—suggesting they could account for as much as 17% of U.S. electricity demand by 2030. For the wind, solar, and energy storage industry, this represents […]

The integration of intermittent renewable energy to power grids worldwide has meant there’s a need for technologies designed to support grid stability.

Central Hudson Gas & Electric, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, and serving the suburbs of metropolitan New York City north to the Capital District at Albany, commemorated more than a century of service in New York state during 2025. The company, which has about 315,000 electricity customers, and 90,00 natural gas customers, provided a program […]

Just hours before his flight back to work on Aug. 24, 2026, seafarer John Cris Tropicales watched his younger brother graduate with a bachelor’s degree in criminology, reported Ulysses “Chuckie” Rivera, community relations manager for Quezon Power (Philippines) Ltd. Co. (QPL) and San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. (SBPL). It was a milestone that the Tropicales […]

Small modular reactors (SMRs) borrow steam turbine engineering from both coal-fired and nuclear plants, but the resulting “wet steam” problem, with exhaust moisture topping 15%, demands a fresh set of

For nearly 25 years, KR Sridhar has argued that large electricity users should not have to wait for the grid to reach them. The proposition once sounded ahead of its time, then specialized, then useful to hospitals, campuses, retailers, telecom networks and data centers that wanted power close to the load. By 2025, as artificial […]

As battery energy storage systems move into larger and denser configurations, fire and explosion risk has become one of the industry’s most closely scrutinized engineering challenges. At Wärtsilä Energy Storage, Mishaal SyedNaveed has focused his work on that challenge. That combination of utility experience, product engineering, testing, and standards work has made SyedNaveed a finalist […]

Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), a developer, owner, and operator of thermal and renewable generation projects, with headquarters in Maryland and offices in Massachusetts and Texas, lauded CEO Sherman Knight for his leadership skills.

Qatar’s strategic potable water storage has grown from about 2.5 days of supply to roughly 5.5 days, according to the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA). The utility credits a program of 15 concrete reservoirs linked by more than 600 kilometers (km) of large-diameter pipeline. The Water Mega Reservoirs Project, a finalist for POWER’s […]