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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a series of emergency orders in December requiring four coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and Western United States to remain operational beyond their ...

Winter Storm Fern delivered the kind of cold that grid operators and generators dread, driving up electricity demand, squeezing fuel systems and forcing regions to lean hard on dispatchable resources ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved Entergy Texas’ proposal to build two natural gas power plants as part of the company’s plan to increase its dispatchable generation portfolio. Together, ...

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 ...