Power Engineering

POWERGEN 2027 conference agenda maps the industry’s response to record demand

POWERGEN 2027 program released: data center power, air permitting, interconnection, gas turbine fleet performance and BESS ...
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Google to pay for nuclear uprates at Georgia Power’s Hatch, Vogtle plants

Georgia Power and Google agreed to uprate nuclear units at Plants Vogtle and Hatch, adding 96 MW capacity for Georgia Power ...
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OPG signs $1.7B contract for Pickering nuclear plant refurbishment

Candu Energy and Aecon Group signed a $1.7 billion contract with Ontario Power Generation for Unit 5 refurbishment at ...
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Winter storms Fern, Gianna tested the US power grid. 2027 could bring a bigger reliability challenge.

Generators performed better and winterization paid off, but a multi-day cold event exposed fuel and supply chain strains that ...
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Elon Musk has a plan to dominate domestic solar and gas turbine manufacturing

Elon Musk aims to build 200 GW of solar manufacturing capacity through Tesla and SpaceX, while also developing gas turbines ...
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EPA announces repeal of greenhouse gas rules for coal- and gas-fired plants

The action, expected Monday, would eliminate Biden-era carbon standards that called for CCS at long-running coal plants and ...
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California’s ‘Planted’ secures $31.8M to scale autonomous solar power for data centers

California startup Planted has secured $31.8 million to expand its robotic construction fleet and accelerate solar power ...
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This coal plant won Basin Electric’s reliability trophy, but it doesn’t plan to return it.

Antelope Valley Station ended Leland Olds' two-year hold on the handmade Untarnished Turbine Award, and its plant manager is ...
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Duane Arnold’s nuclear restart in eastern Iowa gets $1.9B boost from DOE

DOE financing gives a major boost to NextEra Energy’s effort to restart Duane Arnold by 2029, following an emerging path for ...
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Five leadership lessons I learned from working at a nuclear power plant

Eric Larson, site vice president at PSEG’s Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station, shares five leadership principles shaped by ...
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Steam Generation Water Quality Monitoring 101

Part 1 of this series focuses on the instrumentation and monitoring practices that help protect reverse osmosis systems and ...
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Hydropower licensing requirements have exploded. The industry says the grid could pay.

With more than 12 GW of hydropower facing relicensing over the next decade, NHA says rising regulatory requirements could threaten existing generation.