Image by Kevin Clark via Chat GPT 5.2. As a follow-up to the recent condenser performance monitoring series for Factor This Power Engineering, I am revisiting a topic from several years ago. It ...
(From left to right: Simon Tusha, CEO - TECfusions; Gene Alessandrini, SVP of Energy and Location Strategy - CyrusOne; Jennifer Knott, Executive Director, Strategy Implementation - NextEra Energy; ...
Talen Energy is going to keep two of its fossil-fired power plants online a littler longer than expected. Talen announced that it, PJM Interconnection, and a “broad coalition” of the Maryland Public ...
Panelists discuss rate design and interconnection considerations for data centers at DTECH Data Centers and AI on May 29. As utilities across the U.S. grapple with the rising electricity demands of AI ...
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 ...
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 ...
A natural gas-fired plant to be located behind-the-meter of an Ohio data center campus was approved for construction this week. The 200-megawatt (MW) Socrates South Power Generation Project is to be ...
Image art by Kevin Clark via ChatGPT. A proposed 9.2-gigawatt (GW) natural gas power complex near Portsmouth, Ohio, billed by the Trump administration as the largest gas-fired generating facility in ...
Scott Hunnewell, vice president of the utility’s New Nuclear Program and POWERGEN committee member, signs the construction permit application to build a small modular reactor at the CLinch River site ...
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 ...
The Columbia Generating Station in Richland. Photo from Energy Northwest. Washington state legislators have allocated $25 million in the state’s 2023-2025 capital budget for small modular reactor (SMR ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Oct. 13 named seven regional clean hydrogen hubs to receive $7 billion in federal funding, a long-awaited announcement for an initiative aimed at accelerating ...