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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Governor Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of renewable energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration. But from high prices ...

In a rebrand some might call…bold, the Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies. Officially, it’s part of a shift toward “ ...

The Trump administration is dismantling the energy efficiency programs designed to keep data center demand in check. (E&E News) Roll the tape: DOE has shuttered its efficiency office, rolled back ...

Hurricanes turned 2024 into the worst outage year in a decade, pushing US customers to an average of 11 hours without power—nearly 2X the norm. (EIA) EIA data shows major events accounted for 80% of ...