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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.

Australia Moves to Make Data Centers Bring Power. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has urged energy ministers to require large data centers connecting to the National Electricity Market to bringThe post POWER Digest [September 2026] appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The most consequential number in current American energy planning is one that nobody in the room where it gets made believes.The post Coal Got an Order. Nuclear Got a Meeting appeared first on POWER Magazine.

America is debating data centers as though technological leadership and affordable electricity are competing goals. That framing misses the opportunity.The post Make Every Data Center a Power Hub appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Canada-headquartered Revolve Renewable Power Corp., a North American owner, operator and developer of power generation and digital infrastructure projects, announced it has entered into a MXN$450 million ($24 million) project-level, non-recourse-style financing facility with Banco Multiva, S.A., Institucion de Banca Multiple, Grupo Financiero Multiva. The facility is secured by project cash flows and contracted revenues [...]The post Revolve Renewable Power Secures $24 Million from Mexico Bank for Project Financing appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Five advanced nuclear companies will build, own, and operate more than 20 commercial nuclear microreactors across five U.S. Army installations under the Janus Program, a milestone-based effort designed to place the first project into useful service by September 2028 and establish repeatable commercial products. In exclusive interviews, the selected companies toldPOWERthey intend to use the [...]The post The Janus Five: 20+ Commercial Nuclear Microreactors, Starting in 2028 appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The U.S. Army has mobilized up to $2.2 billion for a five-year effort to build and operate more than 20 commercial nuclear microreactors across military installations, selecting five reactor developers and five initial sites for a program designed to push advanced nuclear systems beyond federal test programs and into sustained operation by a Sept. 30, [...]The post U.S. Army Mobilizes $2.2B Janus Program to Deploy More Than 20 Commercial Microreactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Maryland-based investment firm Hull Street Energy announced it has completed its acquisition of two Midwestern power plants that provide electricity in the PJM Interconnection.The post Hull Street Acquires Two PJM-Based Power Stations from Rockland Capital appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A U.S. developer, owner, and operator of distributed energy infrastructure announced it has received an $857-million capital infusion to accelerate growth of its distributed solar energy program.The post Dimension Energy Secures $857 Million to Support Distributed Solar appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A recent flurry of state and federal action points to a marked pivot from treating data center growth as a grid-planning challenge to requiring large-load customers to show who pays for grid upgrades, what capacity supports the load, and how projects will operate during system stress. Morgan Lewis partner Arjun P. Ramadevanahalli spoke with POWER [...]The post The POWER Interview: How Is Rising Scrutiny Changing the Way Data Centers Secure Power? appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Westinghouse's eVinci microreactor has completed zero-power criticality testing at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC), a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The company said the milestone, achieved at 10:39 a.m. PT on Aug. 24 in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Idaho National Laboratory [...]The post Westinghouse eVinci Reaches Criticality Milestone at Nevada Test Site appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has selected 13 new projects across 12 companies for its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative in a significant expansion of the DOE-authorization pathway that channels advanced reactor and fuel-cycle developers toward demonstration on federal and non-federal sites. The selections-spanning microreactor developers, enrichment startups, fuel fabrication [...]The post NRIC Adds 13 Projects to Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, Expanding Advanced Reactor and Fuel-Cycle Pipeline appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Technology giant NVIDIA is furthering its support of artificial intelligence (AI) and data center construction. Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a group that supports the AI buildout by providing power sources and infrastructure for site development, on August 21 said it has entered into a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to advance the development of digital infrastructure across the [...]The post NVIDIA, Cloverleaf Partnering to Advance Data Center Development appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Arevon Energy said its largest standalone battery energy storage project is now operational. The company on August 13 announced that the 300-MW Nighthawk Energy Storage Project has come online in Poway, California.The post Arevon Brings Nighthawk Energy Storage Project Online in California appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A new federal effort to develop nuclear lifecycle" campuses has produced something Washington, D.C., has rarely seen: states competing for a role in managing America's used nuclear fuel.The post Don't Ask States to Become Nuclear Waste Dumps. Make Them Partners in Solving the Problem appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Aug. 18 that raises the bar for large data center development in the state, directing agencies to condition favorable permitting treatment and tax benefits on compliance with new energy, infrastructure, environmental, workforce, and community requirements. Executive Order 2026-05applies its central permitting provisions to data centers with [...]The post Shapiro Sets Binding GRID Requirements in Pennsylvania, Targets Data Center Power Costs appeared first on POWER Magazine.

For decades, most large electricity users in the U.S. relied on the grid for the vast majority of their power needs. As long as the grid could deliver reliable, affordable power, there was little reason to think differently. Now, electricity demand is rising faster than new generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure can often be planned, [...]The post The Forgotten Generation: Why Cogeneration Is Re-Emerging in the Age of AI appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A Brazilian natural gas company has launched a new model for power generation. Eneva, the largest natural gas operator in Brazil, said it started commercial operation of the first asset in its Azulao Complex, part of the company's Reservoir-to-Wire" (R2W) model. Officials on August 19 said the Azulao installation, which will feature two gas-fired power [...]The post Brazilian Group Supporting Grid With New Gas-Fired Power Plants appeared first on POWER Magazine.

PJM Interconnection has proposed a new framework that would allow large data centers and other major electricity users to enter service without first securing enough new capacity to cover their demand-but would make the uncovered portion of that load available for reduction before PJM calls on existing pre-emergency demand-response resources if electricity supplies become dangerously [...]The post PJM Widens Response to Data Center Load as Capacity Shortfalls Deepen appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data center demand strains grid infrastructure across the U.S. and beyond, operators are facing rising scrutiny from utilities, regulators, and the communities where they build. Caspar Herzberg, CEO of industrial software company AVEVA, argues that the industry's response can't stop at sustainability commitments-it requires operational transparency and measurable performance data that [...]The post AVEVA CEO: Sustainability Commitments Must Be Backed by Measurable Results appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The conversation around data center development has changed dramatically over the past few years. Earlier, when developers needed to evaluate a new facility, the questions were relatively straightforward. Is the market attractive? Can we secure the land? Can we obtain reliable power? Can we raise the necessary capital? All those questions still matter. But a [...]The post The New Economics of AI Infrastructure: Why Tax Strategy Is Now Part of Energy Strategy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's (WVDEP) Division of Air Quality (DAQ) has determined that Purcellville, Virginia-based Fundamental Data satisfied the site-control requirements associated with its August 2025 air quality permit for the Ridgeline Facility-a gas turbine power plant that Fundamental Data is planning as the first phase of a project intended to include [...]The post Contested 5-GW Ridgeline Gas, Solar, and Data-Center Complex in West Virginia Clears Site-Control Question appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Mesa Power Solutions has opened a new $70 million manufacturing and administrative campus in Evansville, Wyoming, consolidating 300 employees and expanding the company's capacity to produce natural gas power generation equipment for utilities, data centers, and other commercial and industrial customers. The 220,000-square-foot facility at One Mesa Way (Figure 1) will serve as a hub [...]The post Mesa Power Solutions Expands With $70 Million Wyoming Manufacturing Campus appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The Trump administration's decision to unwind offshore wind leases through negotiated buybacks has predictably reignited the debate over renewable energy. Many welcome the move as a correction to policies that heavily favored offshore wind during the previous administration. That debate is perfectly legitimate. However, the recentagreementsinvolving TotalEnergies, Bluepoint Wind, Golden State Wind, Duke, Invenergy, and [...]The post Energy Dominance Requires Commitments That Last appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Wind turbine blade health strategies must get smarter to adequately support rapid advancements in turbine engineering. Over the last decade, global wind capacity has almost tripled. One of the keys to this growth story has been the sector's ability to manufacture and deploy ever-larger wind turbines at pace. Today's onshore models are, on average, three [...]The post The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Wind Turbine Maintenance appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) have signed an agreement to launch the next phase of their collaboration on a planned 2.5-GW gas-plus-nuclear power project in Victoria, Texas, moving the closely watched data-center power concept from an announced collaboration to engineering, licensing, and safety analysis. TheAug. 13-announced agreementwill advance project definition for [...]The post Texas 2.5-GW Gas-Plus-Nuclear Project Proceeds to Engineering, Licensing Phase appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A California-based fusion energy company announced it has reached an industry milestone. Fuse Energy Technologies Corp. on August 10 published a report noting the company set a record for the highest fusion neutron yield-1.27*10^1^2 in a single shot-by any commercial fusion company.The post Fuse Touts Highest' Neutron Yield by Any Fusion Company appeared first on POWER Magazine.

More than 3 GW of data center load left the PJM system on July 22, 2026, after a single transmission fault. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) investigated the same failure mode in 2024 and found that utility equipment shed none of it. Customer-side protection did all of it. Those settings are about to [...]The post 3 GW Off PJM, Again: What NERC's 2024 Investigation Already Told Us appeared first on POWER Magazine.

When federal emergency powers become routine operating procedure, the system is not holding up. It is operating at its ceiling. And the customers who kept their lights on paid triple for the privilege, which means the event that operations survived is one that affordability did not.The post Alarm Bells Are Sounding for the Grid: Answering Them Takes More Than Megawatts appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A growing group of data center operators-including Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters, Austin-headquartered bitcoin miner and hyperscale developer Mara, and global colocation giant Digital Realty-have publicly committed to comply with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's data center standards and the state's active audit of projects in the Texas grid operator's interconnection queue. They join QTS Data Centers, Blackstone's [...]The post More Data Center Operators Commit to Abbott's Texas Standards as Power Companies Endorse ERCOT Batch Framework appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Aug. 3 order pausing all new data center connections to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid until a comprehensive audit is complete could delay 49.8 GW ofnew data center electricity demand from advancing on the ERCOT system-nearly 20% of the U.S. development pipeline-BloombergNEF (BNEF) said in an Aug. 5 [...]The post Texas Audit Could Delay 49.8 GW of Data Center Load, Cost Projects Up to $15 Billion, BNEF Warns appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Ruggedly engineered and manufactured switchgear provides safe, redundant power while also delivering the resilience and continuous operation expected in large-scale data center environments. As demand for cloud services, large-scale data processing, and artificial intelligence continues to grow, hyperscale data centers have expanded dramatically in size. It is now typical for a single campus to encompass [...]The post Rugged Switchgear-A Reliable Data Center's Bedrock appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Three companies at the forefront of nuclear energy technology have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate fuel technologies to support advancement of next-generation nuclear power.The post Curio, NuScale, Framatome Join to Support Fuel Solution for Advanced Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A New York-headquartered group that pursues investments in North American power and energy infrastructure said it has a deal to acquire a natural gas-fired power plant near Houston, Texas.The post LS Power Acquiring 606-MW Texas Gas-Fired Plant From Constellation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

California-based Deep Fission said the DOE signed off on the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement (NSDA) for its Gravity Nuclear Reactor. The group called it a major regulatory milestone that confirms Deep Fission's reactor design warrants advancement under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program.The post DOE Approves Safety Design of Deep Fission's Underground SMR appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor in Lockhart, Texas, has become the fifth reactor to achieve criticality under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program (RPP), and the first under the program to do so on private land. The low-power test reactor reached criticality at 9:19 p.m. ET Aug. 5, achieving a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear [...]The post Oklo's Groves Becomes Fifth DOE Pilot Reactor to Reach Criticality, First on Private Land appeared first on POWER Magazine.

NRG Energy on Aug. 4 unveiled its first Bring Your Own Power (BYOP) project, a 1.2-GW combined-cycle plant in Texas supported by a 15-year contract with an investment-grade leading global cloud and artificial-intelligence hyperscaler." The $3.2 billion facility, backed by a customer parent guarantee, is targeted for commercial operation in late 2029 and could be [...]The post The POWER Interview: NRG's Case for Bring Your Own Power-and the Labor to Build It appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Growth in artificial intelligence (AI) is outpacing the world's ability to generate enough power to sustain it. As AI adoption accelerates worldwide, it's colliding with a power system that wasn't built for its level of demand. Vittorio Pierangeli, senior vice president PowerGen at Rolls-Royce Power Systems (Figure 1), explains why electricity, not chips or algorithms, [...]The post AI's Obstacle: Why the Grid Can't Keep Pace With the Data Center Boom appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) marked the start of construction on Princeton Road Station with a groundbreaking ceremony the morning of July 17, drawing state and local officials, community stakeholders, and NPPD staff to the site just north of Hallam, Nebraska. The 694-MW dual-fuel facility will be the largest natural gas generation plant in NPPD's [...]The post Nebraska Public Power District Breaks Ground on 694-MW Princeton Road Station appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to conduct a comprehensive audit of every data center advancing through the state's interconnection queue, warning that projects that fail to disclose ownership, financial, water, and community-impact information could be denied grid access. The [...]The post Abbott Orders Full Audit of Texas Data Center Interconnection Queue, Threatens to Deny Grid Access appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The global energy landscape is experiencing increased uncertainty. Recent geopolitical tensions have created volatility in oil and gas markets, highlighted vulnerabilities in global supply chains, and renewed attention on energy security. While these events often dominate headlines, the effects extend far beyond energy producers and governments. For businesses that depend upon reliable power to keep [...]The post Energy Security During Uncertainty: Why Hydrogen Power Matters More Than Ever appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The transition to sustainable energy infrastructure has been experiencing steady progress in recent years across the globe, while simultaneously undergoing constant fluctuation. Actual progress is influenced by a wide variety of factors, such as the drivers behind participants' motivations and the technologies enabling the transition, as well as the status of supply chains and geopolitical [...]The post Resilience and Digital Transformation Spearhead the Energy Infrastructure Transition appeared first on POWER Magazine.

For most of the last two decades, the anxiety in power planning was about demand: would consumption grow fast enough to justify new capacity, and how would an aging fleet keep pace? That question has inverted. Demand is no longer the uncertain variable-it is the one thing forecasters are confident about. The uncertainty now sits [...]The post The Power Sector's New Constraint Isn't Demand-It's Everything Else appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Critical infrastructure operators should view recent incidents where artificial intelligence (AI) agents escaped containment from test environments and executed successful cyberattacks on a relatively sophisticated production infrastructure as near-misses. This challenge is urgent precisely because AI moves fast and infrastructure moves slow. All indications suggest these were not malicious uses of AI for targeted attacks. [...]The post Minutes to Exploit-Months to Recover appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) scale from megawatts to gigawatts, the engineering complexity grows exponentially. Higher-voltage architectures and denser rack configurations are pushing the limits of conventional component design and exposing gaps that can compromise system performance and site safety. For the electrical engineers and systems integrators building these projects, the cells, fire [...]The post Scalable, Grid-Ready Storage: How Connector Design Is Shaping the Next Generation of Energy Systems appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Developers and contractors at a recent event described how the generation buildout is forcing earlier engineering, procurement, and construction contractor involvement; deeper supply-chain tracking; repeatableThe post Is the Power Project Crunch Upending the Owner-EPC Model? appeared first on POWER Magazine.

For Rayburn Electric Cooperative, ownership of the 758-MW combined cycle plant in Sherman, Texas, means stable rates, hardened reliability through heat waves and winter storms, and a hedge against theThe post Rayburn Energy Station: A Cooperative's Answer to Texas-Sized Risk appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A North Dakota-based membership cooperative teamed with a major infrastructure engineering and construction group to build a new natural gas-fired power station, supporting an urgent need for power generation capacity in the region.The post A Pioneering Approach to Building New Generation Resources appeared first on POWER Magazine.