The Department of Energy has opened its checkbook and is now funding the middle ground between large 1000MW+ reactors and microreactors with power ratings of less than 25MW. The agency has selected ...

New Jersey lawmakers are considering a controversial “pay now, power later” bill that would force ratepayers to fund a new nuclear plant a decade before it generates a single electron. (New Jersey ...

As I stated in this recent post, one of the biggest problems in the NERC community today is the fact that most NERC entities with high or medium impact Bulk Electric System (BES) environments don’t ...

Palantir, Nvidia, and CenterPoint Energy are teaming up to prove that the only way to build AI infrastructure is…with more AI. (Reuters) The product: The trio is launching “Chain Reaction,” a software ...

Electricity prices in the free market rose by just over 30% in 2025. The upward trend continues due to a list of factors: (a) La Niña Effects In the reservoirs of hydroelectric plants that represent ...

ERCOT’s large-load queue has exploded to 226 GW—nearly 4X last year’s total—with data centers driving 77% of the surge. (Latitude Media) The crush of requests far outstrips new generation coming ...

In Europe’s rapidly evolving power landscape, few collaborations stand out as clearly as the partnership between Belgium’s Elia and Spain’s Red Eléctrica de España (REE). Although each operates within ...

In the summer of 1982, I spent my school holidays working on a construction site on Fota Island. Fourteen years old, sunburned, boots too big, and absolutely clueless about the scale of what I was ...

Peak load growth is exploding, and you can probably guess what’s behind most of it: data centers. (IER) Grid Strategies’ latest 5-year forecast shows US peak demand climbing 166 GW by 2030, a massive ...

The Texas project—designed to make 1B cubic feet of blue hydrogen per day—lost its $332M DOE grant this spring, leaving Exxon unable to find enough customers willing to pay a premium over cheaper grey ...