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Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates
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.
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Army Selects Three Developers for Commercial Power Projects at Six Installations
The U.S. Army has conditionally selected three private developers to negotiate long-term leases for commercial power generation at six installations in a new Strategic Capital Initiatives round that could bring battery storage,…
Bringing a Power Plant's Worth of Load Onto the Grid: NERC's Interconnection Reckoning 
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…
 
AI Data Centers Turn to Industrial Boilers and Steam Turbines for Power
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…
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Ansaldo Returns to U.S. Gas Turbine Market as Equipment Crunch Widens Supplier Field
A widening gas turbine supply crunch has prompted Ansaldo Energia to explore a new path back into the U.S. generation market after more than 30 years. The Italian manufacturer will supply California-based
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Is the Power Project Crunch Upending the Owner—EPC Model?
Developers and contractors at a recent event described how the generation buildout is forcing earlier engineering, procurement, and construction contractor involvement; deeper supply-chain tracking; repeatable
DOE Closes $1.9-Billion Loan to Restart Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant
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.
Major Leap for Solid-State Transformers: Megawatt-Class Unit Demonstrated on Live Feeder
North Carolina State University, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and EPRI have demonstrated a megawatt-class solid-state transformer (SST) on a live 13.2-kV utility distribution feeder, marking what the partners…
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What the DOE’s Quantum Computing Competition Could Mean for Fusion and Battery Materials
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…
Bechtel-Westinghouse Group, PEJ Agree on Terms for Poland's First Nuclear Power Plant
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.
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