In This Issue
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GasParr Station Modernization Writes the Next Chapter in a Century of Reinvention
POWER’s 2026 Reinvention Award goes to Dominion Energy South Carolina’s Parr Station, where new dual-fuel turbines replace decades-old peaking units and extend a century-long pattern of reinvention at one
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Top PlantWA Parish Integrates Thermal Evaporation to Tackle FGD Wastewater
POWER’s 2026 Water Award winner—WA Parish Unit 8 in Texas—integrated commercial-scale thermal evaporation into an operating coal plant, pairing verified performance with a retrofit that leveraged
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Top PlantA Greener Grid: Florida Facility Turning Hydrogen into Power
The DeBary Hydrogen Production Storage System, part of the DeBary power plant complex, is the winner of POWER’s Top Plant Award for hydrogen. It is the first facility in the U.S. to produce, store, and burn 100% green hydrogen for power generation.
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RenewablesPOWER’s 2026 Rising Star Award Winner: Jack Southard
When Arevon Energy needed someone to lead financing on Nighthawk, a 300-MW/1,200-MWh battery storage project the company had been working on when Nimmi Kavasery came onboard as the managing director of Project Finance, she made “a battlefield promotion,” handing the lead role to Jack Southard—someone she’d only observed peripherally and who had never run a […]
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ManagementPOWER Honors Bloom Energy’s KR Sridhar with 2026 Executive Leadership Award
For nearly 25 years, KR Sridhar has argued that large electricity users should not have to wait for the grid to reach them. The proposition once sounded ahead of its time, then specialized, then useful to hospitals, campuses, retailers, telecom networks and data centers that wanted power close to the load. By 2025, as artificial […]
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NewsCentral Hudson Gas & Electric Wins POWER’s Community Impact Award
Central Hudson Gas & Electric, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, and serving the suburbs of metropolitan New York City north to the Capital District at Albany, commemorated more than a century of service in New York state during 2025. The company, which has about 315,000 electricity customers, and 90,00 natural gas customers, provided a program […]
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O&MSeven Years of Operation in Heat Recovery Economizers: A Phenolic Coating Case Study
A South Korean power plant needed a coating that could survive corrosive condensates without sacrificing heat transfer—the industry’s usual workaround for that trade-off fell short.
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small modular reactorsRedesigning Steam Turbines for the SMR Era
Small modular reactors (SMRs) borrow steam turbine engineering from both coal-fired and nuclear plants, but the resulting “wet steam” problem, with exhaust moisture topping 15%, demands a fresh set of
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O&MTemporary Boilers, Permanent Strategy: How Rental Fleets Are Reshaping Reliability Planning
As rental boiler programs expand across the industry, suppliers describe a shift from emergency-only stopgaps to planned capacity and redundancy strategy. When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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T&DBuilding the Connections Australia’s Energy Transition Needs
Moving Tasmania’s abundant renewable power to the mainland means threading a subsea and underground cable through farmland, coastline, and Victoria’s Latrobe Valley—each stretch carrying its own
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T&DThe Grid Reliability Risk Hiding on High-Voltage Insulation
A high-voltage insulator can look unchanged for years while its operating environment steadily alters the conditions on its surface. Salt carried inland from a coast, industrial residue, road dust, moisture, ultraviolet radiation, and repeated weather cycles create an exposure history that can influence electrical performance and maintenance demands long before an asset reaches a predetermined […]
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T&DThe Blackout Behind the Blackout: What Sarnia’s 2003 Outages Reveal About Restart Risk
Restoring customer supply is not the same event as restoring a process plant. Sarnia’s 2003 outages show why power-system resilience has to be carried through safe shutdown, utilities, environmental controls, and staged restart. The Grid Event Was Only the First Failure State At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the Northeast blackout began to pull […]
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CommentaryNuclear Plant Restarts Show What Government Can Do With a Clear Mandate
On Aug. 30, workers at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Michigan, began loading 204 fuel assemblies into a reactor vessel that had sat empty since the plant shut down in 2022—the first time in U.S. history that a commercial reactor that had entered decommissioning began reloading fuel. Holtec International Chairman and CEO Dr. […]
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RenewablesInvestment Grows for Storage, Renewable Energy Projects in Chile
Chile is among the countries that has undergone an energy transformation over the past several years.
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PowerPurdue Nuclear Reactor Test Demonstrates Remote, Automated Power Control
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
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O&MFrom Underground Heat to Reliable Power: Engineering Geothermal for the Field
Next-generation geothermal is moving from technical promise to commercial deployment. Advances in drilling and reservoir engineering are making it possible to reach heat resources in more locations.
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O&MOld Data, Still-Valid Lessons: What Two EPRI Studies Confirm About Generator Maintenance
A shorted rotor winding doesn’t care what year it is. Neither does a cracked retaining ring or a degraded stator insulation system. The physical mechanisms that take generators offline—fatigue
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CommentaryGrowing Impact of ESA Jurisdiction Amid Unprecedented Energy Demand
Many environmental statutes have narrowed as streamlined permitting and efficient project development are prioritized.
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CommentaryRetired and Retiring Coal Plants Offer the Grid’s Fastest Path to New Capacity
The issue of load growth for the power grid and electric utilities has an overlooked answer: reinvesting in the coal-fired power plant sites being retired.