The Ludington pumped storage project in Michigan entered service in 1973. Calling 2025 “the year of the water battery,” the International Hydropower Association (IHA) touted new global pumped storage ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF), has issued a conditional loan commitment of up to $17.5 billion aimed at accelerating the deployment of 10 ...
The Clean Air Act (CAA) never imagined the current data center boom. Congress last amended the CAA in 1990 before the internet and email transformed public life. Data centers demand both baseload and ...
As anyone familiar with the U.S. utility industry can tell you, the power generation business is cyclical. Fuel prices, regulations and capacity needs create periods of peak new-build and plant ...
Data centers are driving more power equipment orders than ever before. Data centers generated more orders for GE Vernova’s electrification equipment in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2025 ...
Hull Street Energy, (HSE), a power-focused U.S. investment firm, has signed an agreement to acquire FirstLight from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board – acquiring a batch of renewable assets ...
The gas turbine market is heading into uncharted territory, with prices expected to hit $600/kW by the end of 2027, nearly tripling from 2019 levels, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. The ...
Combined-cycle power plants operate by integrating a combustion turbine generator (CTG) and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with a steam turbine generator (STG). However, during some modes of ...
Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...
Nuclear fusion startup Pacific Fusion has introduced itself to the public, alongside the announcement that it has raised over $900 million in Series A funding. Led by Eric Lander, a principal leader ...
Caterpillar moved to the center of the AI infrastructure buildout this week as developer Nscale said it would use the company’s natural gas generator sets to power a major new West Virginia data ...
Vistra's Comanche Peak nuclear plant. Source: Vistra. Vistra said it was engaged in discussions with large load customers for the potential sale of power from its nuclear and gas plants through ...