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The Department of Energy (DOE) has offered Constellation Energy a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to finance nuclear power uprates and modernization at eight plants in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The proposed investments could add nearly 1.1 GW of generating capacity to the nation’s existing nuclear fleet. The commitment marks the agency’s […]

The nation’s electric grid depends heavily on foreign-made equipment, much of it from China. Depending on how the Dept. of Energy (DOE) chooses to implement Executive Order 14421 through its pending rulemaking for national security purposes, it has the potential to prohibit fully any Chinese-made equipment on the transmission grid. COMMENTARY The significance of Executive […]

Antares Nuclear has secured a multi-year agreement with BWX Technologies (BWXT) for advanced nuclear fuel fabrication and received initial Department of Energy (DOE) safety approval for its Mark-1 microreactor, advancing two key requirements for the company’s planned transition from reactor testing to electricity production and military deployments. The Torrance, California–based developer announced on Oct. 27 […]

The data center buildout underway across North America is charging ahead at full speed and may even surpass original forecasts. Facility owners are no longer planning incremental expansions. The demand for data, driven by the rapid adoption and maturation of artificial intelligence (AI), now has them planning in gigawatts. Demand has increased; expectations have changed, […]

POWER Magazine   Jobs   White Papers  Webinars   Events   Store   October 22, 2026 The Nuclear Company Proposes 6.6-GW AP1000 Nuclear Campus in Kentucky The Nuclear Company (TNC) has unveiled plans to develop a 6.6-GW nuclear power campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, that could accommodate up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors along the […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Oct. 22 finalized a rule that allows commercial nuclear reactor applicants to use analyses, test data, and other technical evidence from reactor demonstrations previously authorized by the Department of Energy (DOE) or Department of War (DOW) to support license applications. The measure establishes a more direct means of incorporating […]

Data centers do what any industry would to continue operations during a power outage: Quickly pivot to their own emergency energy. As reported in several media outlets, a 10-minute grid outage in late July of this year on the East Coast caused data centers to hop off the main grid and switch over to their […]

What does the upcoming European Union (EU) Battery Passport look like to many energy executives? Another regulatory requirement. Another documentation demand. Another checkbox. In other words, another headache. But viewing a battery passport as merely a component of compliance infrastructure overlooks its potential as a key piece of financial infrastructure. Why? Because second-life batteries have […]

Officials in Virginia have voted to approve a plan for a massive natural gas-fired power plant in the central part of the state near the James River. Supervisors in Cumberland County, about an hour west of the state capital Richmond, on October 20 voted 3-1 in support of the Cumberland Energy Center, a 3,000-MW gas-fired […]

Data released by energy officials in India shows that more than half of the country’s coal-fired power units are operating with low stockpiles of fuel, as power demand surges and generation from other resources lags. The country’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on October 19 said 96 coal-fired units have critically low amounts of coal on […]

The Nuclear Company (TNC) has unveiled plans to develop a 6.6-GW nuclear power campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, that could accommodate up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors along the Ohio River. The venture-backed developer said it has secured control of a proposed site and intends to pursue federal approvals to begin construction in 2028. The […]

Four years after separating from Constellation Energy, Exelon is expanding its transmission business and pressing for a greater role in power generation. Executive Vice President Carim Khouzami explains why rising data center demand, tightening capacity reserves, and shortcomings in PJM’s wholesale markets are changing the utility company’s strategy. When Exelon completed its separation from Constellation […]

Emerald Horizon plans to sell a hybrid battery and molten-salt storage system now and add an accelerator-driven thorium generator later. The generator remains at an early stage of development. Austria decided against nuclear power in the late 1970s and has not revisited the question since, according to Mario Müller, vice president of research and development […]

Severe weather conditions have become constant. Cyclones, storms, heatwaves, floods, and droughts continue to put critical infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, and lives at risk in the U.S. and around the world. Heat waves and droughts are the second-deadliest weather category, causing critical infrastructure instability, power line inefficiency, thermal sagging, and overloaded transformers that can lead to […]

NTPC Limited, India’s largest electric utility, has signed a power purchase agreement with 247 Solar and will deploy that company’s Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology as part of its energy strategy. The companies on October 15 said it will mark the first commercial project for 247 Solar and its solar thermal tech. The Virginia-based company […]

Captona LLC, a North American investment firm, has announced its latest preferred equity investment in partnership with Nexamp, a fully-integrated distributed generation and community solar company. The investment announced October 13 support the financing of 55 MW of solar generation and 5 MWh of battery storage capacity across 10 projects in four states (Illinois, Maine, […]

Utility-scale solar plants can lose energy without experiencing a complete equipment failure. Dust accumulation can reduce module output, inverter derating can constrain power conversion, tracker faults can leave arrays at suboptimal angles, and communication problems can prevent operators from recognizing underperformance promptly. Some losses are unavoidable, but others can be identified, quantified, and corrected through […]

American Electric Power (AEP) and X-energy have agreed to evaluate a 960-MW small modular reactor (SMR) project in Indiana, backed by Amazon development funding and a proposed long-term power purchase agreement designed to protect existing utility customers from project costs. The 12-reactor project would be the second deployment under Amazon and X-energy’s collaboration to develop […]

This article draws on lessons from the first triennium of PSE&G’s Energy Efficiency (EE) program and how those experiences have helped shape our approach as the program has progressed. Intended for energy companies, industry peers and others involved in shaping or advancing energy efficiency efforts, the article shares insights on program management and delivery, customer […]

Pivot Energy, an impact-focused independent power producer of distributed-scale solar and energy storage, announced the closing of a $173-million term loan facility for a portfolio of 51 community-scale solar projects totaling 135 MW across six states. Long-time financial partners First Citizens Bank, Huntington Bank, and BankUnited provided the takeout financing. The facility refinances the projects […]

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) has commissioned Westinghouse Electric Co. to begin procuring long-lead items (LLIs) for the first AP1000 unit of the Lubiatowo-Kopalino nuclear power plant project. This is one of the most important stages in preparing for the start of construction and ensuring that the project is completed on schedule. “This is an extremely […]

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 their final stakeholder ballot, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) announced Oct. 15. The standards and associated implementation plans will next go before NERC’s […]

American Electric Power (AEP), which said in July that it had secured about 13 GW of gas turbines for deployment through 2031, this week announced plans for a $4 billion, 702-MW Bloom Energy fuel cell plant in Wyoming to supply Google and purchased 190 MW of Mainspring Energy linear generators under an agreement for up […]

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 charter market at a time when shipping conditions were already challenging. Drawing on its logistics experience and global agreements, the consortium engaged one of the […]

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 month filed an engineering plan with state regulators for construction of a 750-MW station at the Fox Energy Center, in Wrightstown in the Fox Valley […]

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. Whether the question was data center backlash, grid security, or what to do about gas-plant emissions rules, the answer came back to the same point: […]

This year’s Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX), whose programming POWER’s editors curated, was structured to look beyond the scale of opportunity presented by large-load forecasts and delve into the questions they raise. A key focus: What will it take to deliver power infrastructure and data centers on timelines, terms, and operating conditions that both industries […]

Who pays, who bears the risk, who decides, and when? Virginia Commissioner Jehmal Hudson makes a forceful case that serving large-load growth requires credible commitments, earlier coordination, and ratepayer protections built into investment decisions. Good afternoon. Thank you to POWER Magazine for inviting me to join you today. It is a pleasure to be with […]

Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of upgrades at 11 nuclear units across the PJM Interconnection, which is slated to add 890 MW of generating capacity from Constellation’s existing reactors by the end of 2032. The […]

Power plants have largely optimized individual assets. The next opportunity lies in how assets, resources, and operating decisions work together. Power producers are experts at optimizing equipment. Decades of advancement in engineering and operating practices have improved the performance of gas turbines, pumps, steam systems and other critical assets. Operators can measure unit-level performance in […]