When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new guidance July 1, it gave developers of new power plants and other major emitting facilities more flexibility over when they must secure ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Williams Companies is advancing a power generation strategy that marks its most direct move into the electricity market. The company now has $5.1 billion committed to modular gas-fired or hybrid ...
See the video below for more on our exclusive trip to Westinghouse’s Waltz Mill facility. About 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh is the Westinghouse Waltz Mill site, part of the company’s expansive ...
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced that it has received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build agreement with Base Electron, an independent power producer backed by Applied Digital, to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...