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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long-term equipment maintenance and service programs are known by many names: long-term maintenance programs, contractual service agreements, and perhaps most commonly, long-term service agreements, ...

Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station (Source: Entergy). Entergy will consider adding up to 275 megawatts (MW) of capacity through uprates at its existing nuclear plants, CEO Drew Marsh told ...

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 ...

Amazon is backing 700 MW of new carbon-free generation and storage in Nevada to support future data center operations in the Reno area, including a 20-year geothermal power purchase agreement that ...

Over the last 20 years, the power industry has experienced a shift in steam turbine (ST) maintenance strategies driven by two compounding factors. The first factor has become the overwhelming task of ...

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 ...