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 ...
That was quick: In May, PacifiCorp and CAISO launched EDAM (which builds off the real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market). Two months in, EDAM is helping PacifiCorp improve resource planning. The ...
When homebuyers are looking at prospective homes, they’re considering a multitude of variables: school districts, safety, property values, proximity to work, taxes and more. How do energy-related ...
The world is entering a new era of nuclear proliferation. As alliance loyalties wane, hostile and friendly nuclear weapons proliferation is becoming more likely. As in the 1950s and 1960s, security ...
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 ...
The agency has proposed scrapping its public input requirement for “minor source” air permits…which include the tractor trailer-sized diesel generators that data centers use for backup ...
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.” ...
Over the past decade, regulators have pushed utilities to justify capital plans in terms of risk. In California, the Public ...
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 ...
AEP Texas will use those funds to build, repair, or reconductor nearly 3K miles of transmission lines—and support up to 41 GW of load growth. The utility predicts nearly $700M in ...
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 ...