Power Engineering

The turbine slot is the new critical path. POWERGEN 2027 examines what that means for plant execution

Gas turbine scarcity is changing how thermal plants get built, a key theme at the POWERGEN conference in Salt Lake City in January 2027. With turbines sold out into 2029 or later, the order of project ...
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AI moves inside the plant: 1898 & Co. previews its POWERGEN case study

At POWERGEN 2027, 1898 & Co.’s Chris Wiles explains how an AI pilot with Cleco is turning scattered power plant asset data ...
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Tennessee Valley Authority gets green light to build first BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the US

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has cleared a major regulatory hurdle for a new generation of nuclear power earlier than expected. On Tuesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued TVA a ...
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Blue Energy files first NRC application for Texas gas-to-nuclear project

Project Rendering at Port of Victoria. Source: Blue Energy. Blue Energy has filed the first part of its construction permit application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its inaugural ...
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Google to pay for nuclear uprates at Georgia Power’s Hatch, Vogtle plants

Georgia Power and Google announced a new agreement under which Google will support uprates on Georgia Power’s owned portion of the nuclear units at Plants Vogtle and Hatch that will allow the ...
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California’s ‘Planted’ secures $31.8M to scale autonomous solar power for data centers

Planted, the Oakland, California-based company, reported this week that it has raised $31.8 million to accelerate deployment of its autonomous solar construction technology as data centers and other ...
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Hydropower licensing requirements have exploded. The industry says the grid could pay.

A new analysis from the National Hydropower Association says mandatory licensing conditions for U.S. hydropower projects have increased roughly tenfold since 1980, just as electricity demand enters a ...
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Elon Musk has a plan to dominate domestic solar and gas turbine manufacturing

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to build a whole lot of solar. He also wants to build the gas turbines needed to keep the lights on while he does it. Musk is ...
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Five leadership lessons I learned from working at a nuclear power plant

What’s it like to work at a nuclear power plant? As Site Vice President at PSEG’s Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey, I get that question a lot, especially when I speak to students ...
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First ‘gas-plus-nuclear’ plant for data centers, advanced manufacturing is closer to becoming a reality

GVH BWRX-300 SMR (Credit: GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy) Blue Energy, a developer of prefabricated nuclear power plants, and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) have announced the signing of ...
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Westinghouse Electric files for IPO as nuclear demand grows

Nuclear contractor Westinghouse Electric Company, a supplier of nuclear technology and services, announced it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the ...