Westinghouse Electric Company submitted a draft registration statement for an IPO with the SEC, amid rising electricity demand and a $17.5 billion DOE loan for 10 new AP1000 reactors.

Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) plans to add multiple natural gas-fired plants, along with new wind and solar farms, pending regulatory approval. The American Electric Power (AEP) subsidiary ...

Amazon is backing 700 MW of new carbon-free generation and storage in Nevada to support future data center operations in the Reno area, including a 20-year geothermal power purchase agreement that ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its pure state, hydrogen is fine, but a mixture of air and hydrogen can be explosive. Then, why hydrogen? Operating an electric power generator produces large amounts of heat that must be removed ...

A rendering of the Castle Bluff Energy Center. Source: Ameren Missouri. Ameren received approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission to build an 800 MW simple-cycle natural gas energy center ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Talen Energy’s data center campus connected to the Susquehanna nuclear station in northeast Pennsylvania. In a statement, Talen said it had sold the 960 MW ...

A rendering of Evergy's planned 710-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle natural gas plant in Sumner County, Kansas. Photo Source: Evergy. Utilities across the Midwest and Southeast are moving forward with ...

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud have announced a new expansion in their long-standing energy and technology collaboration. Together, the companies will partner to develop multiple, new gigawatt ...

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 ...