Power

Poland’s state-owned nuclear power company and a consortium led by Bechtel and Westinghouse have agreed on the main commercial terms of a deal to build that country’s first nuclear power plant.

Engineers at Purdue University have, for the first time in the U.S., adjusted a nuclear reactor’s power experimentally, remotely and automatically in real time—a demonstration they say offers an early

Last year an automotive parts manufacturer asked us for solar with battery storage on a 110-kW system. They were ready to buy the battery. We told them not to. Their half-hourly data showed a site that ran hard through the day and went almost dark by early evening. Solar would cover the daytime load directly. […]

Chile is among the countries that has undergone an energy transformation over the past several years.

Electric utility Georgia Power and tech giant Google said the companies have an agreement under which Google will support power uprates at two of the utility’s nuclear power plants.

America is in the middle of one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in generations. Data centers are rising to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Battery plants and advanced manufacturing facilities are reshaping industrial regions. Renewable energy projects continue to expand, while new transmission infrastructure is being built to connect generation with growing demand. […]

For too many industrial organizations, lubrication is a mere maintenance task, a routine chore performed without strategic consideration. This oversight ignores the profound impact that lubrication has on asset reliability and, by extension, overall business performance. Achieving lubrication excellence often requires the support of a dedicated, full-service lubrication solutions provider rather than reliance on transactional […]

A leading North American fuel cell manufacturer encountered a significant component challenge. The need was for a non-return valve that could ensure uncompromising safety, reliable performance, and consistent operational integrity in advanced fuel cell systems. Standard, off-the-shelf options did not meet strict requirements for low pressure drop, zero leakage, and material compatibility. WITT Gas Controls […]

  Traditional magnetic induction-based instrument transformers have served the power industry reliably for decades, but a new generation of low-power alternatives is gaining ground — particularly in data centers and industrial facilities where accuracy, size, and integration with digital secondary systems matter. This paper reports on LPIT history, standardization, and some of the applications in […]

Data centers are connecting to the transmission system faster than the reliability rules were built to handle and behaving nothing like the passive load those rules assumed. Here’s what the North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s (NERC’s) Large Loads Action Plan, a new class of registered entity, and a hard 2026 deadline mean for anyone planning, […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 17 announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, a $215 million initiative to fund private-sector teams racing to build the world’s first fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computer. Structured as a milestone-based competition rather than a conventional grant, it will pay out fixed awards of up to $1.5 million per […]

Apex Clean Energy announced the Virginia-based company has a power purchase agreement (PPA) with technology giant Meta for exclusive rights to energy from the Starling Solar project in Gonzales County, Texas, including all renewable energy credits. The 144-MW project will add to the local grid new generation that would not have been built without Meta’s […]

I have spent my career building companies, and along the way I’ve learned that the technical mastery of a trade and the strategic discipline required to scale a business around it are two fundamentally different competencies. You can be the most capable operator in your field and still not have a business. A business is […]

A Singapore-based subsidiary of a Germany-headquartered group said it has broken ground on a 99-MW solar power facility in the Philippines.

A European independent power producer is expanding its asset base on the continent. Israel-headquartered Econergy on September 15 said it is entering the French market with a €134-million ($155 million) acquisition of Escofi, a private wind energy platform of about 740 MW.

Generate Capital, a leading investor, owner and operator of critical infrastructure, on September 15 announced the closing of a $117-million term debt facility with MUFG to finance a portfolio of community solar projects. The transaction marks Generate’s first community solar financing with MUFG and further expands the company’s network of leading institutional financing partners.

Juniper Green Energy, an independent renewable energy power producer in India, said it has expanded its portfolio with a series of projects in the first two weeks of September.

A company that specializes in autonomous power deployment said it has raised $31.8 million to scale its operations. California-based Planted said the new capital expands its robotic fleet.

GE Vernova’s Onshore Wind division announced it has an agreement with Eurus Energy Holdings Corp. to supply seven 4.2-MW, 117-meter wind turbines for a wind farm in Japan.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Trump administration’s order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan operating. The decision that could impact other orders that have been issued to keep U.S. coal-fired power plants operating past their scheduled retirement dates.

This article presents a practical four-phase engineering methodology for migrating legacy transmission substations toward adaptive protection architectures in power systems with high distributed energy resource (DER) penetration. Increasing DER integration introduces significant challenges to conventional protection schemes, including bidirectional power flow, dynamic fault current behavior, relay coordination complexity, and reduced protection reliability in aging substations. […]

Horizon Technology Finance Corp., an affiliate of Monroe Capital, on September 10 said that the RoHo Capital Opportunity Fund LLC, a joint venture formed by Horizon and CR Financial Holdings, Inc., the holding company for Roth Capital Partners, LLC, has provided a $20-million senior credit facility to NeoVolta, Inc., with the ability to increase the facility to $30 million upon mutual agreement. An initial $20 million was funded at closing to support NeoVolta’s continued growth.

An independent energy development company and a long-time manufacturer of wood products have signed an agreement to develop geothermal projects in Washington and Oregon.

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are being built at an unprecedented pace. There are more than 12,000 active projects in the U.S. currently seeking grid interconnection representing 1,570 GW of generator capacity and 1,030 GW of energy storage. Analyst firm Omdia predicts that AI will drive more than 50% of installed power generation capacity over […]

As reciprocating engines/gensets assume a larger role in distributed generation, data center infrastructure, and other critical duty applications, crankcase ventilation and the resulting emissions warrant increased attention and mitigation. When power generation professionals discuss engine emissions, the conversation typically focuses on the exhaust stack. While this emphasis is justified, it underestimates another emissions pathway: the […]

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) said the agency has closed a loan of as much as $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to support the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa.

From two-year bushing lead times and hyperscaler demand to U.S. manufacturing expansion and the emerging 765-kV build-out, Trench Group CEO Bahadir Basdere explains where high-voltage equipment supply is under the most pressure. High-voltage grid components are becoming a critical constraint as utilities, transmission developers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and hyperscalers compete for equipment needed to […]

America’s emerging electricity challenge is increasingly an infrastructure challenge. For much of the energy transition, attention concentrated on the cost of producing electricity. Solar developers focused on module prices, battery developers compared cell costs and round-trip efficiency (RTE), and utilities evaluated competing resources using measures such as levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). Those calculations remain […]

California utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) on September 3 announced SHARE (Smart Home Assets for Reliability and Efficiency), a first-of-its-kind virtual power plant designed to help communities benefit from rising electric demand, while improving affordability and reliability for all customers. PG&E, together with Rewiring America, Google, Carrier Global Corporation, Tesla, Sunrun, Renew Home, Demand […]

Construction of the final segment of the Southwest Intertie Project, a 576-mile transmission corridor connecting an area from Idaho to just south of Las Vegas, Nevada, is underway. Officials celebrated the latest milestone for the installation during a groundbreaking ceremony in Ely, Nevada, on September 3.