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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 [...]The post How Solar PV Yield Risk Shapes Project Design, Investment, and Bankability appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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.The post NextEra Will Buy Dominion Energy in Largest-Ever Electric Utility Deal appeared first on POWER Magazine.

NextEra Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., is reportedly in talks to acquire Virginia-based Dominion Energy.The post Reports Say NextEra in Talks to Acquire Dominion Energy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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.The post Phantom Data Centers Didn't Break the Power Grid-They Proved It Was Already Broken appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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 [...]The post Record Power Burn Expected This Summer as Coal Retirements and Data Centers Drive Gas Demand appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Sunraycer Renewables LLC, a developer, owner, and operator of clean energy power sites, on May 14 announced the closing of a $901-million project financing facility to support three Texas-based solar power projects.The post Sunraycer Renewables Closes $901-Million Package to Support Three Solar Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Technology group Wartsila has signed two equipment supply contracts with Origem Energia for the development of new balancing power projects in Brazil. The contracts announced May 13 cover the supply of two batches of 18 Wartsila 34SG balancing engines.The post Wartsila, Origem Energia Partner on Brazilian Power Plant Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Behind even the smallest convenience powered by AI is a massive surge of computing power for training models and inference. All that computing power requires energy.The post Managing AI's Footprint in a Carbon-Constrained World appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Utilities are under increasing pressure to move distributed energy resources (DER) through interconnection queues more quickly. In many regions, review timelines have stretched from months into years as requests for solar, storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure continue to rise.The post The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing DER Interconnection-and What Utilities Can Do About It appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Duke Energy's 11-unit nuclear fleet finished 2025 with a capacity factor greater than 97%-its best result on record. For Steven Capps, Duke's senior vice president and Chief Nuclear Officer, that number is the foundation everything else has to sit on. 2025 was the best year we have had in terms of overall capacity factor for [...]The post Duke Energy's Nuclear Playbook: Three Horizons, One Strategy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Within a single week last month, Kairos Power broke ground on its Hermes 2 reactor in Tennessee, and days later TerraPower and Bechtel began construction on the Natrium reactor in Wyoming. Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), told industry leaders in Washington, D.C., at the Nuclear Energy Policy Forum on [...]The post State of the Nuclear Industry 2026: Korsnick Says the Real Test Is Now Scale appeared first on POWER Magazine.

On May 5, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its CI Fortify initiative, new guidance instructing electric utilities and other critical infrastructure (CI) operators to plan for a geopolitical crisis in which their operational technology (OT) networks are actively compromised and/or their connectivity to telecommunications, internet, vendors, and service providers is gone. [...]The post CISA's CI Fortify Initiative Signals a Shift in How the U.S. Government Thinks About Grid Threats appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Florida-headquartered Star Catcher Industries said it has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, as the company continues its effort toward building the first space-based power grid. Star Catcher, based in Jacksonville, said the new investment-led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus [...]The post Star Catcher Raises $65 Million to Build First Power Grid in Space appeared first on POWER Magazine.

GE Vernova announced the start of commercial operation of the 852-MW Krklareli power plant in Turkiye. The natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station, featuring GE Vernova's 9HA.02 gas turbine, is the first in that country to use an H-class product.The post GE Vernova Modernizing Turkiye's Power Generation With Country's First H-Class Gas Turbine appeared first on POWER Magazine.

There has never been a time when so much power was needed so fast. Driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, more data center capacity is in development or under construction now than has been built in all of history. According to analyst firm Industrial Info Resources (IIR), each month of 2025 saw at least [...]The post Fast Power for a Constrained Grid: Wet Compression Applications in Gas Turbines appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Grid capacity and the interconnection queue aren't the only constraints on U.S. data center growth. Community acceptance is becoming the toughest bottleneck to break through, and a hot political topic with the approach of the midterm elections.The post Aligning Data Center Growth with Community Acceptance in a Constrained Grid appeared first on POWER Magazine.

After decades of stagnation, nuclear power is firmly back in the energy discussion. Surging electricity demand, hyperscale data centers hunting for firm round-the-clock power, and growing pressure to decarbonize industrial heat have converged to revive interest in both new reactor construction and lifetime extensions of the existing fleet. The resurgence is broader than a single [...]The post The Many Shapes of Nuclear Power's Revival appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The Cuban National Electric Union (UNE) is implementing a program to install 5,000 2-kW photovoltaic (PV) systems, donated by China, with the goal of diversifying the energy mix and ensuring essential services amidst the current energy crisis. Elena Maidelin Ortiz Fernandez, head of the project to install these systems, explained to a Cuban newspaper that [...]The post China Donates 5,000 Solar PV Systems to Cuba Amid Energy Crisis appeared first on POWER Magazine.

California-headquartered Clearway Energy Group said the company's 320-MW Honeycomb Energy Center is now online in Utah.The post Clearway Brings 320-MW Honeycomb Energy Center Online in Utah appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A global investment firm that manages about $22 billion in assets said it has acquired a majority of the equity interests in New Frontera Holdings, which includes a 530-MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle generation station in Mission, Texas.The post Investment Group Acquires 530-MW Gas-Fired Power Plant in Texas appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Ontario took its most decisive step yet toward building Canada's first large-scale nuclear station in more than three decades, directing the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to enter a cost-sharing and recovery agreement with Bruce Power to advance pre-construction work on the proposed Bruce C project. The agreement, announced on May 7 by Energy and [...]The post Ontario Advances Bruce C Nuclear Project with $300M Pre-Development Agreement appeared first on POWER Magazine.

With many hyperscale data centers requiring hundreds of megawatts of reliable, uninterrupted power, contractors often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.The post A Roadmap for Breaking Through the Power Demand Bottleneck in Data Center Construction appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The American Public Power Association welcomes renewed bipartisan negotiations in the Senate on permitting reform. America's demand for electricity is rising at a pace few anticipated just a few years ago. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC's) recent Long-Term Reliability Assessment warns that 10-year summer peak demand is projected to grow by 224 GW, [...]The post The Time Is Now: Permitting Reform Is the Foundation of America's Energy Future appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Khalid Mandri is president of ABB Installation Products. Mandri recently provided POWER with his insight about how electrification supports decarbonization, and how it aligns with optimizing power infrastructure, including the grid.The post The POWER Interview: Electrification, Decarbonization, and Optimizing Infrastructure appeared first on POWER Magazine.

For years, the case for emerging fuels and technologies has often been told through the lens of decarbonization. That lens still matters, but it does not reflect the entire value proposition. Energy strategy is now being shaped by artificial intelligence (AI)/data centers, policy volatility, geopolitical disruption, supply-chain constraints, rising system complexity, and rapidly rising demand, [...]The post Beyond Carbon: How Emerging Fuels and Technologies Can Help appeared first on POWER Magazine.

POWER is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2026 POWER Awards, recognizing the projects, people, and organizations setting the pace for the global power industry. Winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony at Experience POWER in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, at 5 p.m. New this year: the Plant of the [...]The post POWER Reveals 2026 Awards Finalists; Readers to Choose Plant of the Year appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Transmission corridors can be difficult to inspect, sometimes requiring helicopters and boots on the ground. A Daytona Beach, Florida, company is using drones to improve the process-at roughly a quarter ofThe post 77 Miles, One Drone: Rewriting the Rules of Infrastructure Inspection appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Solar canopies are unlocking clean energy potential in some of the built environment's most underutilized spaces, but success depends on getting the details right. Solar canopy projects above parkingThe post A Blueprint for Successful Solar Canopy Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As artificial intelligence (AI) training reshapes data center power system design, early adopters using battery energy storage systems (BESS), microgrid control, and unified automation are positioningThe post The Power Problem Behind AI-and a Path to Fix It appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Why megawatts, siting, firm generation, and power-aware design are becoming the real inner loop of the artificial intelligence (AI) race. We are knocking on the door of these incredible capabilities. The ability to build basically machines out of sand." Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, used that phrase at Davos this January to describe how silicon [...]The post AI Data Center Growth Is Now a Power Infrastructure Problem appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how quickly they can be energized, and how large they can become. In this age of hyperscale data centers, campuses using 300-600 MW of electrical capacity, equivalent [...]The post Data Centers and the Grid: How Hyperscale Computing Is Reshaping Power Infrastructure appeared first on POWER Magazine.

On April 7, the Maine House voted 82-62 to advance Legislative Document (LD) 307, a bill sponsored by Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport, that would impose a moratorium on artificial intelligence (AI) dataThe post Data Centers and Communities: Why the Conversation Demands More Nuance appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Industry analysts say faster construction timelines, along with lower energy costs, are fueling consistent growth in a solar power sector increasingly constrained by regulators.The post Policy Problems Aside, Solar Continues to Shine appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Operators are trying to coax more output from aging fleets, with fewer experienced people, under increasingly unforgiving reliability expectations. In that environment, preventive maintenance has become anThe post Fewer People, Older Assets, Higher Stakes: How the Power Sector Is Rethinking Preventive Maintenance appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Europe is a top market for deployments of energy storage, as companies expand investment for the technology. A recent report from Wood Mackenzie said Europe's utility-scale pipeline for energy storage exceeds 130 GW, with more 3,000 projects across at least 37 countries.The post Europe Embraces Energy Storage to Enhance Power Flexibility appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A Houston-based nuclear technology startup is advancing a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) design that targets outlet temperatures of 950C (1,742F)-well beyond the range of most advanced reactorThe post ZettaJoule Pursues a Second Act for Japan's High-Temperature Nuclear Reactor appeared first on POWER Magazine.

After the encouraging developments from last year and the news from fusion startups receiving funding, a familiar pattern is emerging across energy policy discussions in emerging and developing economiesThe post Fusion Won't Replace Energy Policy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Modern predictive maintenance depends on sensors and data streams that double as attack surfaces. Protecting the grid now means treating cybersecurity as a reliability discipline. In the interconnected age ofThe post Securing the Grid from the Sensor Up: Why Predictive Maintenance and Cybersecurity Are Inseparable appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As the first generation of wind turbines ages out of manufacturer service agreements, operators are discovering that the smarter path forward isn't wholesale replacement-it's re-engineering components toThe post Don't Replace the Turbine, Re-Engineer It appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Powering data centers is receiving significant attention at the federal level with the Department of Energy's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, or ANOPR, on large-load interconnections, and with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gathering input on the proposal.The post Power, Policy, and Scale: Inside the State Regulatory Response to Data Center Expansion appeared first on POWER Magazine.

By installing optimal components, finetuning utility processes, and partnering with the right suppliers, hyperscalers are improving data center cooling loop performance, which is increasing operational uptime, equipment safety, facility reliability, sustainability, and profitability. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an increasing staple in daily routines, data centers today are undergoing significant architectural shifts. Driven by the [...]The post How to Reduce Energy Consumption with Improved Data Center Cooling Efficiency appeared first on POWER Magazine.

PJM Interconnection's first interconnection cycle" under its revamped, clustered review process has attracted 811 new generation projects representing roughly 220 GW of nameplate capacity. The effort now moves to a validation phase, under which the grid operator will confirm that applicants have met baseline technical and financial requirements-including site control and readiness commitments-before advancing qualified [...]The post PJM's First Reformed Queue Cycle Draws 811 Projects, 220 GW appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Westinghouse Electric Company has made Dan Sumner's interim role permanent, appointing him president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Sumner has served as Westinghouse's interim CEO for the past 12 months and previously held senior executive roles overseeing the company's finance and operating-plant businesses. According to Westinghouse, Sumner brings nearly 25 years of global experience [...]The post Westinghouse Confirms Dan Sumner as CEO appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Two days after naming its first four participants, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) on April 29 issued a request for applications (RFA) for its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, formally opening the program to a broader pool of advanced nuclear developers and setting a July 8, 2026, deadline for initial [...]The post DOE Opens Nuclear Energy Launch Pad and DOME Test Bed to Industry Applicants, Sets July 8 Deadline appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) have announced the first four developers selected for the freshly launched Nuclear Energy Launch Pad-a restructured deployment-support initiative that succeeds the DOE's Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program and broadens federal assistance to cover the full nuclear [...]The post From Pilot to Launch: DOE Names First Four Nuclear Energy Launch Pad Developers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A U.S.-based fusion energy company has become the first such group to apply to join a major power grid operator. Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on April 28 said it has submitted a connection request to PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest wholesale electricity market, as part of its development plan for a commercial-scale fusion energy power plant.The post Fusion Energy Group Seeks PJM Connection for First Commercial Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a sweeping new licensing framework designed to push microreactors out of the lab and onto the grid at unprecedented speed. The proposed rule, called Part 57, is paired with a broader agency overhaul that earlier this year created the Office of Advanced Reactors (OAR), headed by longtime [...]The post NRC Unveils Part 57: A Streamlined Path for High-Volume Microreactor Licensing appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has spelled out several areas that present challenges to domestic and global development of nuclear power. Chief among those issues is building a process that enables fuel development on a repeatable, industrial scale, so that projects can move beyond the demonstration phase to commercial operation.The post The POWER Interview: Solving the Problem of Fuel for Nuclear Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Many utilities have been slow to embrace distributed energy resources (DERs) and, in some cases, have reshaped rate structures and compensation mechanisms to limit their growth. This is not simply resistance to change. It is a rational response to incentive structures that favor building infrastructure over technology advancement and energy optimization and efficiency.The post Rethinking Utility Incentives and Business Models in the Age of Distributed Energy appeared first on POWER Magazine.