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AEP Plans $4 Billion Fuel Cell Power Plant for Google, Signs Up to 1.6 GW Mainspring Generator Deal
American Electric Power (AEP), which said in July that it had secured about 13 GW of gas turbines for deployment through 2031, this week disclosed firm orders for nearly 900…
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NERC Reliability Standards for Data Centers and Crypto Loads Pass Final Ballot, Advance to Board Review
Proposed reliability standards that would require qualifying data centers, artificial intelligence facilities, and cryptocurrency operations to provide grid data, coordinate protection settings, and respond to grid operators’ instructions have passed…
Enhance your 7E turbine: Proven paths to increased performance
About Is your 7E gas turbine operating at its full potential? As grid demands rise and assets reach mid-to-late life, 7E operators face a critical choice: reactive maintenance or proactive…
 
AI-Driven Energy Optimization in the Data Center Era
About Data center growth is reshaping how utilities and grid operators plan, forecast, and procure power, often faster than legacy processes can keep up with. This session moves beyond the…
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AI Innovations in Renewable Energy: Transforming the Sector

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From Document Control to Digital Transformation: Building the Trusted Foundation for AI
About This webinar explores the evolution of engineering information management—from uncontrolled documents and fragmented information to structured document control with an Engineering Document Management System (EDMS). It examines how outdated…
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Data Centers, Gas, and Who Pays: Power Association Leaders Find Common Ground
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.…
Beyond the Contract: How Rabigh Reinforcement Reached First Fire 14 Months After Award
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…
We Energies Unveils Plan for New 750-MW Gas-Fired Plant in Wisconsin
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…
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AI in the Control Room: Building Operator Confidence Through Actionable Guidance
About The power industry is entering a new era of operational complexity. Growing grid demands, changing generation portfolios, renewable integration and an evolving workforce are creating more data and more…
Data Historians and the Purdue Model: A Modern Design Approach
About The Purdue Model is the gold standard for an effective industrial data system that securely passes process data from control systems to plant and enterprise level analytics. Data historians…
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