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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An aerial view of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Vistra announced it has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Salt River Project (SRP) and Google this week announced what the companies are calling a “first-of-its-kind” research collaboration to better understand the real-world performance of emerging ...
Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy sent shockwaves through the North American energy ecosystem Monday morning, announcing their intent to merge to form the world’s ...