Technology

GE Vernova announced two significant advancements in the development of hydrogen-ready aeroderivative gas turbine solutions, both achieved at its new dedicated hydrogen testing facility at the Global Technology Center in Greenville, South Carolina. The company on November 10, in an announcement at the COP31 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, said it has officially validated the performance […]

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are emerging as a potentially critical part of the future power mix. Only a year ago, SMRs were still framed as a promising but distant technology. But that’s all changed as electricity demand accelerates, grids struggle to expand at the pace required, and affordability and reliability move back to the top […]

Arevon’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project in California provides power for the Los Angeles region and is helping the state progress toward its goal of providing more renewable energy. Companies in the renewable energy sector acknowledge the importance of hybrid project configurations that include energy storage. It makes commercial sense, as adding storage means solar arrays or […]

When people talk about innovation in energy storage, the conversation usually starts with batteries: chemistry, capacity, and duration. Those areas are important, but they are not the whole system. As energy storage systems move toward higher voltages, higher power, and more compact designs, the components inside them must also handle more demanding electrical conditions. This […]

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 […]

The acceleration of the energy transition in recent years has pushed the renewable energy market into a new phase of its journey. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), renewables are now relied upon to provide more than a third of the world’s power (and growing), as global narratives around clean energy shift away from […]

It’s now well understood that load growth on the grid is exponential and driven primarily by data centers. A range of generation types are racing to meet this demand. Renewable developers are well-positioned here, finding opportunity built into their existing projects or development pipelines. Land and interconnection positions secured years ago for one purpose are […]

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 […]

How do you know when you’re in a technological renaissance? When science, technology, and economics have lined up to produce something new. COMMENTARY In Europe it took artists, scientists, and craftspeople until 1550 to recognize that they had created the Renaissance—about 200 years into the revival of the classical teachings of ancient Greece and Rome, […]

A new integrated offering combining battery storage, energy trading and financing solutions for industrial sites A solution already deployed at Saft’s Bordeaux site, reducing annual electricity costs by approximately 15% Paris, November 4, 2026 – Saft, a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies and a global leader in advanced battery technology, launches EnerShift, an integrated solution […]

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 […]

As fleets grow more diverse, reliable operational data—not algorithms—could decide how useful artificial intelligence (AI) becomes in the control room. “If a 1-GW offshore wind park unexpectedly goes offline, the impact on grid stability can be significant,” Mark Robens, sales head for North and Western Europe for Controls & Digitalization at Siemens Energy, said as […]

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 […]

How much more generation will the U.S. need to meet rising electricity demand? It’s an important question, but it isn’t the only one the power industry needs to answer. As data centers, advanced manufacturing, and broader electrification increase demand, the growing challenge is delivering power where and when it is needed. COMMENTARY New generation can […]

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 […]

I’ve sat through hundreds of conversations with commercial and industrial (C&I) buyers evaluating battery storage, and most start the same way: They compare capacity, price per kilowatt-hour, and warranty length. Those numbers matter. But they rarely predict whether a project will stay on schedule and perform reliably for a decade. COMMENTARY Two systems can carry […]

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 […]

Power generation is no longer a single-technology business. A utility that ran combined cycle gas plants five years ago is now as likely to be balancing wind, battery storage, and grid-support services from the same control room. The assets are more varied, the interfaces more numerous, and the demands for keeping it all synchronized and […]

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 […]

Antares Nuclear has secured a multi-year agreement with BWX Technologies (BWXT) for advanced nuclear fuel fabrication and received initial Department of Energy (DOE) safety approval for its Mark-1 microreactor, advancing two key requirements for the company’s planned transition from reactor testing to electricity production and military deployments. The Torrance, California–based developer announced on Oct. 27 […]

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 […]

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 […]