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The POWER Interview
What Does Fleetwide AI Actually Mean for the U.S. Nuclear Industry?
Nuclear plants have accumulated decades of operating experience, technical research, regulatory guidance, and other industry knowledge. Finding the right information, however, can mean searching several separate systems and then piecing the relevant material together. To address that search burden, Atomic Canyon, a company developing artificial intelligence tools for the nuclear industry, built the Nuclear Industry […]
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Power
Purdue 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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Renewables
Investment 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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Nuclear
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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Biomass
The Overlooked Renewable Energy Resource: Why Construction Waste Should Be Part of America’s Energy Strategy
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. […]
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O&M
Beyond the Grease Gun: Turning Lubrication Into a Strategic Reliability Advantage
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 […]
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Technology
Driving the Hydrogen Economy: How a Custom Non-Return Valve Advances Fuel Cell Development in Material Handling
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 […]
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Expert Commentary
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 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, […]
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Technology
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 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 […]
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Press Releases
Apex Clean Energy Signs PPA with Meta for Solar Power from Texas Project
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 […]