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 ...

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Talen Energy’s data center campus connected to the Susquehanna nuclear station in northeast Pennsylvania. In a statement, Talen said it had sold the 960 MW ...

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud have announced a new expansion in their long-standing energy and technology collaboration. Together, the companies will partner to develop multiple, new gigawatt ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) has closed a “historic” $26.5 billion loan package, which the department ...

AEP Ohio, an American Electric Power company, has filed a settlement agreement over a proposed data center rate structure that drew pushback from big tech names like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ...

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 ...

When combined cycle plants are run at low loads, problems often arise with overspray from attemperators using traditional mechanical atomization. To address this issue, power plants can upgrade to ...