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Urenco USA, operator of the only U.S. commercial-scale uranium enrichment facility, will expand low-enriched uranium (LEU) capacity at its National Enrichment Facility (NEF) in Eunice, New Mexico, by nearly 50% through a privately funded, multibillion-dollar investment that includes construction of a new enrichment plant. The project will add 2.1 million separative work units (SWU) of […]

Colorado-headquartered Xcimer Energy has announced the start of operations for Phoenix, what the company calls the largest privately owned laser system in the world. Phoenix, named after the legendary bird from Greek and Egyptian mythology, is the company’s prototype for commercializing laser fusion.

The Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on wind energy development in the U.S. stands in sharp contrast to its promotion of oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) production, and microreactor nuclear projects. Agencies have blocked 165 wind projects nationwide while simultaneously spending nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to convince energy companies to abandon offshore […]

Power demand across the U.S., particularly in Texas, continues to accelerate, driven by data center expansion, electrification trends and sustained industrial growth. Recent market analyses, including JLL’s data center outlook, show Texas accounting for more than one-third of the nation’s active data center construction pipeline, signaling a significant and sustained increase in electricity demand. To […]

Another U.S.-based energy company said its technology has achieved key performance metrics that advance its goal of commercial fusion by the mid 2030s. California-headquartered Pacific Fusion on June 2 said its core pulsed power technology is on track to achieve net facility gain by 2030. That’s the state where the “entire fusion machine produces more […]

Installed utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) is expected to cross the 100-GW milestone this year, and yet no two utility-scale BESS installations are exactly alike. A 4-hour, fully integrated AC block LFP shifting 100 MW of Kern County sunshine, a 1-hour tier-2 air-cooled NMC tied to a dusty 5kV pole somewhere in West Nowhere, […]

Grid operators, utilities, and project developers are facing several enormous demands at once. They’re being asked to deliver capacity for a wave of new load from data centers, electric vehicle (EV) charging networks, and electrified buildings, while at the same time integrating a record pipeline of new generation from utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage. […]

Global clean energy group ContourGlobal announced the start of commercial operation of another utility-scale solar-plus-storage project in Chile, one the company said features Latin America’s longest-duration battery energy storage system.

POET, a South Dakota-headquartered company and the world’s largest producer of biofuels, has joined with Antora Energy to commission a 5-GWh, multi-day thermal energy storage system at POET’s bioprocessing facility in Big Stone City, South Dakota. Antora is supplying batteries from the company’s recently expanded San Jose, California gigafactory. The companies earlier in May said […]

Uptime has become the defining performance metric of the modern data center. As digital services underpin everything from financial markets to transport systems, tolerance for disruption has all but disappeared. For mission-critical environments, 99.999% availability and just five minutes of downtime per year aren’t the dream, but the baseline. Industry performance is improving. According to the Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis 2025, data center service availability has […]

New Jersey-based Thea Energy, one of several U.S. companies working to commercialize fusion energy, said the company has raised $100 million in Series B funding. Thea is advancing stellarator technology to provide baseload fusion power. The company, which has several investors, is moving toward beginning construction of its Helios power plant (Figure 1) by the […]

NERC’s recent Level 3 alert flagged something that should concern every data center operator: Artificial intelligence (AI) facilities are causing sudden 1,000+ MW load swings in single events.

DigitalBridge Group said it has a definitive agreement to acquire ArcLight Capital Partners as part of a $1.05-billion deal.

Florida-headquartered Spearmint Energy said it has closed a financing package of $450 million to support a standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) installation in Texas.

It’s a known fact that wind power sites across the U.S. eventually will reach the end of their lifecycles. So now what? The industry is coming upon an age where owners and operators must repower these sites by leveraging existing infrastructure to help meet the growing national demand for power. With more than 75,000 turbines […]

VoLo Earth and Equal Ventures co-lead Series A in grid technology firm building an “operating system” to help utilities consolidate data and maximize value across operations — from data center load to renewables growth to distributed energy resources. Texture, the grid software platform that provides utilities a single view of every device and data source […]

Finnish energy group Steady Energy has signed a letter of intent with Alva-yhtiöt, the city of Jyväskylä’s water and energy group, to study the suitability of small-scale nuclear power as a source of district heating for the city.

Enel Group announced it has agreed to acquire seven solar photovoltaic facilities across three states as the company expands its U.S. portfolio. Enel, acting through wholly owned subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, on May 18 said it has an agreement to invest $140 million for the purchase of the plants, which the company said […]

Dr. Remy Notermans, director of Strategic Planning for Atom Computing, a Boulder, Colorado-based group developing large-scale quantum computers, recently provided POWER with information about how quantum computing works. Notermans discussed how quantum computing can benefit electric utilities and the power generation sector.

Clean energy group OCI Energy and Texas-based power company CPS Energy announced they’ve broken ground for construction of the Alamo City Battery Energy Storage System near San Antonio, Texas.

Investment firm Hull Street Energy (HSE), which focuses on the power sector, announced an agreement to acquire FirstLight USA from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. The transaction includes a portfolio of about 1,400 MW of clean energy generation in the U.S. Northeast.

A year after President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14300 directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cut red tape and speed nuclear deployment, the agency is claiming a string of historic firsts, a backlog of rules in motion at unprecedented scale, and an internal reorganization due to take effect next month. In a news […]

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 […]

NextEra’s purchase of Dominion Energy, if approved, would have an impact on many areas of the electricity sector. Some analysts told POWER they’re concerned about how it would affect customers’ power bills. Others wonder whether the $67-billion deal s part of a trend that will lead to more mergers and acquisitions in the power space.

After more than a decade of construction setbacks, Cuba has begun erecting turbines at the Herradura 1 wind farm in the eastern province of Las Tunas—the largest wind project ever attempted on the island. Vicente de la O Levy, Cuba’s Minister of Energy and Mines, said the facility will be brought online this year, with […]

A rapidly changing market landscape is driving new solutions to keep gas-fired power generation units operating profitably. The introduction of significant renewable energy sources to the power grid across the globe, along with increased worldwide demand from data centers, industry, and the general population, is driving substantial changes to the operating environment for thermal power […]

Florida-headquartered NextEra Energy, one of the largest U.S. power utilities, is set to buy Virginia-based Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $67 billion.

NextEra Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., is reportedly in talks to acquire Virginia-based Dominion Energy.

The requests flooding interconnection queues come from data center developers, private equity funds, land brokers, and shell companies, many of whom lack site control, a construction timeline, or even a signed customer. They secure a queue position, bet that powered land will attract a buyer, and wait. The industry calls them “phantom data centers,” and the grid isn’t prepared to handle them.

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.