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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.The post From Underground Heat to Reliable Power: Engineering Geothermal for the Field appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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-fatigueThe post Old Data, Still-Valid Lessons: What Two EPRI Studies Confirm About Generator Maintenance appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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. [...]The post Nuclear Plant Restarts Show What Government Can Do With a Clear Mandate appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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.The post Retired and Retiring Coal Plants Offer the Grid's Fastest Path to New Capacity appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Many environmental statutes have narrowed as streamlined permitting and efficient project development are prioritized.The post Growing Impact of ESA Jurisdiction Amid Unprecedented Energy Demand appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Infinigen, a Puerto Rico-based independent power producer, in late August announced the closing of a $33-million tax equity investment in the Yabucoa Solar Project.The post POWER Digest [October 2026] appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. Army has conditionally selected three private developers to negotiate long-term leases for commercial power generation atsix installationsin a new Strategic Capital Initiatives round that could bring battery storage, natural gas, and nuclear generation onto Army land. OnSept. 18, the Army conditionally selectedAmeresco, a Massachusetts-based energy infrastructure company, for Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland [...]The post Army Selects Three Developers for Commercial Power Projects at Six Installations appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Poland's state-owned nuclear power company and a consortium led by Bechtel and Westinghouse have agreed on the main commercial terms of a deal to build that country's first nuclear power plant.The post Bechtel-Westinghouse Group, PEJ Agree on Terms for Poland's First Nuclear Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post What Does Fleetwide AI Actually Mean for the U.S. Nuclear Industry? appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 earlyThe post Purdue Nuclear Reactor Test Demonstrates Remote, Automated Power Control appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Chile is among the countries that has undergone an energy transformation over the past several years.The post Investment Grows for Storage, Renewable Energy Projects in Chile appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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.The post Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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. [...]The post The Overlooked Renewable Energy Resource: Why Construction Waste Should Be Part of America's Energy Strategy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post Beyond the Grease Gun: Turning Lubrication Into a Strategic Reliability Advantage appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post Driving the Hydrogen Economy: How a Custom Non-Return Valve Advances Fuel Cell Development in Material Handling appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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, [...]The post Bringing a Power Plant's Worth of Load Onto the Grid: NERC's Interconnection Reckoning appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post What the DOE's Quantum Computing Competition Could Mean for Fusion and Battery Materials appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post Apex Clean Energy Signs PPA with Meta for Solar Power from Texas Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

For most of the last century, electricity and heat have been planned and regulated as two separate systems, a design choice that made sense when both were produced by burning fuel on demand. However, that design is a poor match for how the grid actually runs today. Generation, transmission constraints, and price all shift by [...]The post The Grid's Wasted-Power Problem Has a Sector-Coupling Fix appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A Singapore-based subsidiary of a Germany-headquartered group said it has broken ground on a 99-MW solar power facility in the Philippines.The post German Energy Developer Breaks Ground on Solar Project in Philippines appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A European independent power producer is expanding its asset base on the continent. Israel-headquartered Econergy on September 15 said it is entering the French market with a 134-million ($155 million) acquisition of Escofi, a private wind energy platform of about 740 MW.The post Econergy Expands European Base, Acquires French Wind Energy Platform appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Generate Capital, a leading investor, owner and operator of critical infrastructure, on September 15 announced the closing of a $117-million term debt facility with MUFG to finance a portfolio of community solar projects. The transaction marks Generate's first community solar financing with MUFG and further expands the company's network of leading institutional financing partners.The post Generate Capital Closes $117-Million in Financing for Community Solar appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Juniper Green Energy, an independent renewable energy power producer in India, said it has expanded its portfolio with a series of projects in the first two weeks of September.The post Juniper Green Energy Commissions New Wind Farms Across India appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A company that specializes in autonomous power deployment said it has raised $31.8 million to scale its operations. California-based Planted said the new capital expands its robotic fleet.The post Planted Raises $31.8 Million to Accelerate Autonomous Solar Deployment appeared first on POWER Magazine.

GE Vernova's Onshore Wind division announced it has an agreement with Eurus Energy Holdings Corp. to supply seven 4.2-MW, 117-meter wind turbines for a wind farm in Japan.The post GE Vernova Will Supply Turbines for Japanese Wind Farm appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Trump administration's order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan operating. The decision that could impact other orders that have been issued to keep U.S. coal-fired power plants operating past their scheduled retirement dates.The post Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Michigan Coal-Fired Plant Operating appeared first on POWER Magazine.

This article presents a practical four-phase engineering methodology for migrating legacy transmission substations toward adaptive protection architectures in power systems with high distributed energy resource (DER) penetration. Increasing DER integration introduces significant challenges to conventional protection schemes, including bidirectional power flow, dynamic fault current behavior, relay coordination complexity, and reduced protection reliability in aging substations. [...]The post A Phased Framework for Adaptive Protection Migration in DER-Heavy Transmission Substations appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Horizon Technology Finance Corp., an affiliate of Monroe Capital, on September 10 said that the RoHo Capital Opportunity Fund LLC, a joint venture formed by Horizon and CR Financial Holdings, Inc., the holding company for Roth Capital Partners, LLC, has provided a $20-million senior credit facility to NeoVolta, Inc., with the ability to increase the facility to $30 million upon mutual agreement. An initial $20 million was funded at closing to support NeoVolta's continued growth.The post Battery Energy Storage Group Receives Millions in Funding appeared first on POWER Magazine.

An independent energy development company and a long-time manufacturer of wood products have signed an agreement to develop geothermal projects in Washington and Oregon.The post Hexagon, Weyerhaeuser Ink Geothermal Development Deal for Pacific Northwest appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are being built at an unprecedented pace. There are more than 12,000 active projects in the U.S. currently seeking grid interconnection representing 1,570 GW of generator capacity and 1,030 GW of energy storage. Analyst firm Omdia predicts that AI will drive more than 50% of installed power generation capacity over [...]The post AI Data Centers Turn to Industrial Boilers and Steam Turbines for Power appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As reciprocating engines/gensets assume a larger role in distributed generation, data center infrastructure, and other critical duty applications, crankcase ventilation and the resulting emissions warrant increased attention and mitigation. When power generation professionals discuss engine emissions, the conversation typically focuses on the exhaust stack. While this emphasis is justified, it underestimates another emissions pathway: the [...]The post Why Crankcase Ventilation Matters in Engine-Based Power appeared first on POWER Magazine.

North Carolina State University, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and EPRI have demonstrated a megawatt-class solid-state transformer (SST) on a live 13.2-kV utility distribution feeder, marking what the partners describe as the first independent validation of a megawatt-class SST under real-world distribution conditions. The NC State-built prototype was connected at EPRI's power delivery laboratory [...]The post Major Leap for Solid-State Transformers: Megawatt-Class Unit Demonstrated on Live Feeder appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) said the agency has closed a loan of as much as $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to support the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa.The post DOE Closes $1.9-Billion Loan to Restart Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

From two-year bushing lead times and hyperscaler demand to U.S. manufacturing expansion and the emerging 765-kV build-out, Trench Group CEO Bahadir Basdere explains where high-voltage equipment supply is under the most pressure. High-voltage grid components are becoming a critical constraint as utilities, transmission developers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and hyperscalers compete for equipment needed to [...]The post Can U.S. High-Voltage Grid Equipment Supply Keep Pace With 765-kV Expansion and Data Center Demand? appeared first on POWER Magazine.

America's emerging electricity challenge is increasingly an infrastructure challenge. For much of the energy transition, attention concentrated on the cost of producing electricity. Solar developers focused on module prices, battery developers compared cell costs and round-trip efficiency (RTE), and utilities evaluated competing resources using measures such as levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). Those calculations remain [...]The post How Energy Security, Load Growth and Infrastructure Arbitrage Could Reshape America's Power Market appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Nuclear energy is entering a new era. Across the United States and around the world, countries are looking to nuclear power to provide reliable electricity, strengthen energy security, and support economic growth. Advanced reactors and other innovative technologies are creating opportunities that would have been difficult to imagine when many of our current regulations were [...]The post Modern Regulation for a New Nuclear Era appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As data center developers confront tighter power supplies, longer interconnection timelines, and growing scrutiny over who should pay for the grid infrastructure required to serve large loads, those pressures are beginning to reshape another part of the development equation: talent. As states and utilities reconsider how the costs of serving large data center loads should [...]The post The POWER Interview: How the Data Center Power Crunch Is Reshaping the Talent Market appeared first on POWER Magazine.

California utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) on September 3 announced SHARE (Smart Home Assets for Reliability and Efficiency), a first-of-its-kind virtual power plant designed to help communities benefit from rising electric demand, while improving affordability and reliability for all customers. PG&E, together with Rewiring America, Google, Carrier Global Corporation, Tesla, Sunrun, Renew Home, Demand [...]The post PG&E, Google, Rewiring America Launch VPP in California appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Construction of the final segment of the Southwest Intertie Project, a 576-mile transmission corridor connecting an area from Idaho to just south of Las Vegas, Nevada, is underway. Officials celebrated the latest milestone for the installation during a groundbreaking ceremony in Ely, Nevada, on September 3.The post Construction Starts on Last Segment of Major Western U.S. Transmission Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

NextEra Energy says an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven dispatch and outage-scheduling tool has saved its customers more than $20 million so far this year. Santee Cooper expects a custom AI weather-forecasting model to help it avoid spot-market purchases that can cost $100,000 an hour during extreme weather. Both utilities say the tools moved from concept to [...]The post NextEra, Santee Cooper Point to Real Dollar Savings From AI Deployments appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. power grid is entering a period unlike any it has experienced in decades. Rapid electrification, domestic manufacturing, and the exponential growth of artificial intelligence are reshaping electricity demand. A recent report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, projects that data centers alone could account for between 9.5% [...]The post Three Questions Every Utility Should Ask About Advanced Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Utilities and independent power producers have spent years adding sensors to their generating fleets and creating dashboards to view what they relay. But visibility into how a plant is operating isn't the same as knowing what to do about it-and that gap is where Siemens Energy's Omnivise Energy Management System is increasingly shedding light, explained [...]The post Energy Management Goes Beyond Monitoring to Decision-Making appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Following a competitive evaluation, Swedish nuclear technology company Studsvik AB has selected GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Samsung C&T as strategic collaborators for a proposed four-unit BWRX-300 project totaling about 1,200 MWe. The project is planned for either Studsvik's licensed nuclear site in Nykoping or Malma in Valdemarsvik, and the first unit is expected [...]The post Studsvik Selects GE Vernova Hitachi, Samsung C&T for 1.2-GW Swedish BWRX-300 Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Florida-headquartered ONE Nuclear Energy said the company has executed a binding letter of intent (LOI) that would provide site control for development of Project Cayman, a 2.88-GW gas-fired power plant and 700-MW/2.88 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) sited alongside a data center complex.The post One Nuclear Signs Deal for 2.88-GW Gas-Fired Plant, Large BESS for Louisiana Data Center Campus appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Texas data center developer TIDAL PWR, which says it has seven projects totaling 9.87 GW in its artificial intelligence (AI) campus development pipeline and designs its campuses to combine utility service and behind-the-meter generation, is collaborating with quantum technology company BTQ Technologies to determine how power and data center infrastructure could eventually accommodate quantum computing [...]The post TIDAL PWR, BTQ Develop Blueprint for Quantum-Ready Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Japan is rebuilding its nuclear power fleet after the Fukushima disaster, with upgrades targeted toward ensuring safe operations. Japan continues work to restart its nuclear power fleet, which supplied about aThe post Reactor Restart Rekindling Japan's Nuclear Renaissance appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Saeul 3 is the latest evolution of South Korea's APR1400 program, completed after an extraordinary interruption in national nuclear policy, fortified during construction to address newer safety requirementsThe post Saeul 3's Nine-Year Nuclear Odyssey to Operation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A widening gas turbine supply crunch has prompted Ansaldo Energia to explore a new path back into the U.S. generation market after more than 30 years. The Italian manufacturer will supply California-basedThe post Ansaldo Returns to U.S. Gas Turbine Market as Equipment Crunch Widens Supplier Field appeared first on POWER Magazine.

More solar power projects paired with energy storage are taking shape across Europe, with a variety of investors supporting assets in the UK and Italy, among other countries.The post European Countries Boost Variety of Renewable Energy Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The wait for a large gas turbine now runs longer than the time it takes to design, permit, and build the plant it will sit in. Order one today from any of the three largest manufacturers, and the delivery slotThe post Is the Smart Money Buying Operators Rather Than Megawatts? appeared first on POWER Magazine.