Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:16:15 +0000
Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power has proposed a pivot toward extending the life of several existing coal and natural gas-fired power plants into the late 2030s—well beyond previous retirement timelines—citing […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000
Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]
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Credit to Author: Molly Jerrard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:38:03 +0000
The energy grid is confronting unprecedented challenges, including surging demand, aging infrastructure, and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. A deep freeze across the East Coast recently generated an […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:09:41 +0000
Prominent private equity investment firm Blackstone has agreed to acquire the 774-MW Potomac Energy Center—a natural gas power plant located in Virginia’s “Data Center Alley”—in a deal reportedly valued at […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:47:19 +0000
Facing a projected surge in power demand across the country, NextEra Energy is taking steps to potentially restart its shuttered 615-MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa as early as […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:39:08 +0000
South Carolina’s largest power provider Santee Cooper has issued a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at finding a buyer—or visionary—to take on what remains of the Virgil .C. Summer Nuclear […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:46:04 +0000
2025 will test the progress of the world’s energy transition and could forecast its direction for the next decade. With major economies pursuing budget cuts, it will be a year […]
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Credit to Author: Mark Siira| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:35:20 +0000
As we enter 2025, the world’s growing need for charging large battery storage in vehicles is driving many changes in how we generate, transmit, distribute and use energy. Against this […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:27:28 +0000
Is it possible that the digital infrastructure and energy/power industries are overestimating the need for data centers, and for development of new energy facilities to be used to power them? […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:37:20 +0000
Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo is partnering with Texas-based prime and backup solutions company RPower to roll out an innovative “phased energy model” that will combine natural gas and nuclear […]
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