When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new guidance July 1, it gave developers of new power plants and other major emitting facilities more flexibility over when they must secure ...

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 ...

Interconnection reform is all the rage right at the moment, and now the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) wants to get in on the fun. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) recently ...

Palo Verde Generating Station, the only operating nuclear plant in Arizona (Credit: APS). Arizona’s three largest electric utilities are moving ahead with preliminary nuclear siting work despite ...

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Image art via ChatGPT-5. After several years of steady but restrained dealmaking, 2025 marked a clear inflection point for the U.S. power and utilities sector. Mergers and acquisitions surged in value ...

Centralia Power Plant (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) TransAlta announced that it has signed a long-term tolling agreement with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to convert its ...

Williams Companies is advancing a power generation strategy that marks its most direct move into the electricity market. The company now has $5.1 billion committed to modular gas-fired or hybrid ...

During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...

In the 20th century, steam turbines became the most powerful electric power generators available, accounting for more than 50 percent of the world’s installed power generation capacity. However, many ...

See the video below for more on our exclusive trip to Westinghouse’s Waltz Mill facility. About 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh is the Westinghouse Waltz Mill site, part of the company’s expansive ...

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 ...