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Wind
Cuba Begins Installing Turbines at Herradura 1, Its Largest Wind Farm
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 […]
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Trends
NRC Clears Long Mott’s Environmental Review on a Faster Path—Another Milestone for Commercial Advanced Nuclear
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its environmental assessment (EA) of the proposed 320-MW Long Mott Generating Station at Dow’s Seadrift site in Texas, issuing a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the four-reactor X-energy project. According to X-energy, the NRC completed the environmental review in under a year, marking the first time […]
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Solar
Cuba’s Varadero Airport Aims for Solar Self-Sufficiency with New Photovoltaic Park
Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer International Airport, the main gateway to the Varadero resort area, will become the first in Cuba to manage its entire electricity demand using solar energy, with the construction of a photovoltaic solar park that is already in the preparation stage. The information was confirmed by Osmany Sánchez, Secretary General of the […]
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Solar
How Solar PV Yield Risk Shapes Project Design, Investment, and Bankability
Expected annual energy yield (PVout) is a fundamental number for every utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) project. It informs the design, shapes the budget, feeds the financial model, and influences what investors and lenders are willing to accept. Behind every expected yield estimate, however, is a range of uncertainty. Part of it comes from the solar resource […]
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Partner Content
Futureproofing Gas Power Plant Investments
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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 […]
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Data Centers
From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid
Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical nature of modern artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is such that there is no tolerance of downtime. Further measures must be in place to ensure energy […]
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Business
NextEra Will Buy Dominion Energy in Largest-Ever Electric Utility Deal
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.
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Business
Reports Say NextEra in Talks to Acquire Dominion Energy
NextEra Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., is reportedly in talks to acquire Virginia-based Dominion Energy.
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Commentary
Phantom Data Centers Didn’t Break the Power Grid—They Proved It Was Already Broken
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.
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Gas
Record Power Burn Expected This Summer as Coal Retirements and Data Centers Drive Gas Demand
U.S. natural gas supply is expected to reach a record 117 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) this summer, including 111.7 Bcf/d of dry gas production, but growing demand from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, data center load, industrial activity, and power generation is absorbing much of that growth, leaving less gas available for storage […]