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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Renewable energy is no longer a distant vision of the future – it’s happening here and now. With solar installations set to cross 1 terawatt by 2025 and wind energy already playing a vital role in ...
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 ...