When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new guidance July 1, it gave developers of new power plants and other major emitting facilities more flexibility over when they must secure ...

Interconnection reform is all the rage right at the moment, and now the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) wants to get in on the fun. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) recently ...

Palo Verde Generating Station, the only operating nuclear plant in Arizona (Credit: APS). Arizona’s three largest electric utilities are moving ahead with preliminary nuclear siting work despite ...

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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 ...

Image art via ChatGPT-5. After several years of steady but restrained dealmaking, 2025 marked a clear inflection point for the U.S. power and utilities sector. Mergers and acquisitions surged in value ...

Hull Street Energy, (HSE), a power-focused U.S. investment firm, has signed an agreement to acquire FirstLight from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board – acquiring a batch of renewable assets ...

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced that it has received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build agreement with Base Electron, an independent power producer backed by Applied Digital, to ...

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 ...

After 15 years of nearly flat electricity consumption, the U.S. power sector is entering a sustained growth cycle that could require installed generating capacity to ...

As anyone familiar with the U.S. utility industry can tell you, the power generation business is cyclical. Fuel prices, regulations and capacity needs create periods of peak new-build and plant ...

The gas turbine market is heading into uncharted territory, with prices expected to hit $600/kW by the end of 2027, nearly tripling from 2019 levels, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. The ...