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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Winter Storm Fern delivered the kind of cold that grid operators and generators dread, driving up electricity demand, squeezing fuel systems and forcing regions to lean hard on dispatchable resources ...

Williams Companies is advancing a power generation strategy that marks its most direct move into the electricity market. The company now has $5.1 billion committed to modular gas-fired or hybrid ...

Combined-cycle power plants operate by integrating a combustion turbine generator (CTG) and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with a steam turbine generator (STG). However, during some modes of ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a series of emergency orders in December requiring four coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and Western United States to remain operational beyond their ...

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 ...

Drilling operations at Fervo’s Cape Station (Image: Fervo). Fervo Energy, a player in next-generation geothermal development space, announced the execution of a 15-year power purchase agreement with ...

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 ...