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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And you thought the cost of a Big Mac was putting a damper on your finances? PJM Interconnection, the largest electrical grid operator in the United States, held its annual power market auction ...

From interconnection to market structures, U.S. power grid operators are grappling with an onslaught of battery storage development, which has boomed due to the critical need to shore up variable ...

A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) study found hundreds of coal power plant sites could convert to nuclear, dramatically increasing dispatchable, carbon-free energy as the country strives to meet ...

TVA plans to repurpose its retired Bull Run coal-fired plant with synchronous condensers for grid stability. As more electricity comes from intermittent renewable energy, maintaining grid stability ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund up to $900 million to support the initial U.S. deployments of Generation III+ small modular reactor (SMR) technologies. DOE ...

A rendering of GW Ranch. Credit: Pacifico Energy. Pacifico Energy has announced plans for its GW Ranch project, a 5-GW off-grid power generation campus featuring gas turbines and battery storage that ...

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 ...

Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station (Source: Entergy). Entergy will consider adding up to 275 megawatts (MW) of capacity through uprates at its existing nuclear plants, CEO Drew Marsh told ...

Long-term equipment maintenance and service programs are known by many names: long-term maintenance programs, contractual service agreements, and perhaps most commonly, long-term service agreements, ...