Fermi America’s 17-GW, $60 billion AI data center planned for 7,500 acres on the arid Texas panhandle, which would combine nuclear and fossil generation, has a serious nuclear weakness, according to ...

EIA: "The 250-year history of U.S. energy consumption." Only appropriate after the recent celebration of the ...

When discussing BESS safety, most attention is given to thermal runaway, fire suppression, flammable gas management, and ...

Everybody’s talking about the grid operator’s connect-and-manage framework. How it works: Resources don’t have to wait for the transmission upgrades required for “full deliverability.” ...

Sunrun wants to tap its 1.1M customers to offer extra compute power to AI developers. How? The company is testing compute nodes in homes with its solar and battery systems and selling that ...

Last week’s heat dome had the power system working overtime: Electrical output surpassed 100K GWh…for the first time in history, EEI reported. (The previous record: >99K GWh in July ...

Let's Go! is back for the fourth year, and this fall we're gathering in the Mile High City. Join leaders from across the energy sector for sessions that discuss and demonstrate how regulatory ...

I don't think this is a good idea, but the New York legislature has passed a moratorium on data center construction in the state. It is not clear to me whether this will only apply to private data ...

Over the past decade, regulators have pushed utilities to justify capital plans in terms of risk. In California, the Public ...

For decades, utility inspection meant one of two options: expensive helicopter flyovers or slow, risky ground and climbing crews. Neither scales well against today's grid reliability demands, and ...

The mine could yield valuable supplies of zinc, silver, and manganese, strengthening the domestic critical mineral supply chain (a major White House goal). These materials are used to produce energy ...

The state PUC has approved Portland General Electric’s nearly 30% rate hike for large customers like data centers. It’s the first utility to increase data center rates under the state’s ...