More than $1.1 trillion—with a T. That’s how much investor-owned utilities in the US will invest from 2025–2029 to meet demand growth. (EEI) CapEx spending over the decade from 2015–2024 totaled $1.3T ...

Enbridge is putting $900M into a 600 MW solar project near San Antonio, with all generation going to Meta under a long-term contract to power its growing fleet of data centers. The Clear Fork project ...

A massive heat dome has parked over the eastern US, and thanks to a phenomenon called evapotranspiration? Fields of Midwestern corn are basically slow-cooking the atmosphere by giving off moisture ...

GE Vernova is acquiring Alteia, a French startup using computer vision to help utilities spot grid issues faster. (Axios) Alteia’s software is already familiar to GE Vernova’s utility clients through ...

Fusion startups just had their best year since 2022, pulling in $2.64B in new funding as investor confidence rebounds and pilot plants inch closer to reality. That’s up 178% from last year. (FIA) ...

President Trump just gutted the US Nuclear Waste Review Board, leaving only one member to oversee the nation’s long-term radioactive waste plans. (E&E News) The shakeup follows recent NRC leadership ...

How do we build a more reliable grid? Better planning, per a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. (Latitude Media) The report outlines five ways to relieve grid strain: smarter transmission ...

When Puerto Rico went dark in April, one town kept the lights on, thanks to a homegrown network of solar microgrids. (IEEE Spectrum) Locals’ “grid orchestration” tech powered homes and businesses ...

The much awaited indicative numbers are released. Applied for: “Power generation units that own power plants connected to the national power system with a total installed capacity of over 30 MW, power ...

Oceaneering, a Norwegian subsidiary of Texas-headquartered Oceaneering International, and Havfram-owned company Kontiki Winds are teaming up on microgrid electrification projects using floating wind ...

Given Australia’s interest in developing a hydrogen economy I wonder whether this is a smart long term acquisition by Shell. Shell lobs $617m takeover bid for ERM Power as it eyes Australian expansion ...

Early in my career, I taught a night school graduate course. It was about computer methods to solve electric grid simulations. It was basically a math course. The math was tough. I had two problems. ...