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Grid Resilience Is About More Than Adding Capacity
How much more generation will the U.S. need to meet rising electricity demand? It’s an important question, but it isn’t the only one the power industry needs to answer. As data centers, advanced manufacturing, and broader electrification increase demand, the growing challenge is…
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Data Centers, Affordability, and the Ballot Box: What the 2026 Midterms Mean for the Power Industry
Public affairs strategists John Ashford and Jared Dubnow examine the political backlash against data centers, the implications for power-sector investment and regulation, and the potential for public opposition to spread to emerging generation technologies. Data centers have…
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Keeping America’s Nuclear Fleet Reliable as Electricity Demand Grows
Artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, and electrification are increasing U.S. electricity demand. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimates data centers could account for 11.8% of electricity consumption by 2030, within a projected range of 9.5%–15.3%. The U.S.…
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Curtiss-Wright Invests $30M to Expand Nuclear Instrumentation Manufacturing in Texas
Curtiss-Wright Corp. will invest $30 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Round Rock, Texas, to increase production capacity for pressure and temperature sensors used in commercial nuclear reactors and industrial applications. The investment is part of the company’s…
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DOE Closes $5.1B Loan Package for Alliant’s Iowa, Wisconsin Gas Power and Battery Storage Buildout
The Department of Energy (DOE) has closed a $5.1 billion federally guaranteed loan package for Alliant Energy’s two regulated utilities, providing access to lower-cost financing for new natural gas-fired generation, battery energy storage, liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage,…
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Advancing the Safe Transport of Activated Metallic Waste
Activated metallic components generated during reactor operation, maintenance, and decommissioning rarely present a uniform packaging challenge. They can vary widely in shape, mass, dose rate, and radiation profile, and may include thimble plug assemblies (TPA), poison rod…
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DOE Offers Constellation Up to $5B Loan for 1.1 GW of Nuclear Uprates at Eight Plants
The Department of Energy (DOE) has offered Constellation Energy a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to finance nuclear power uprates and modernization at eight plants in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The proposed investments could add nearly 1.1 GW of…
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Executive Order 14421: Managing the Risk of a Ban on Chinese Grid Equipment
The nation’s electric grid depends heavily on foreign-made equipment, much of it from China. Depending on how the Dept. of Energy (DOE) chooses to implement Executive Order 14421 through its pending rulemaking for national security purposes, it has the potential to prohibit…
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Antares Secures BWXT Fuel Agreement, Advances DOE Review for Electricity-Producing Mark-1
Antares Nuclear has secured a multi-year agreement with BWX Technologies (BWXT) for advanced nuclear fuel fabrication and received initial Department of Energy (DOE) safety approval for its Mark-1 microreactor, advancing two key requirements for the company’s planned transition…
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Data Centers Can Have Both: Reliability and Sustainability Are Not Tradeoffs
The data center buildout underway across North America is charging ahead at full speed and may even surpass original forecasts. Facility owners are no longer planning incremental expansions. The demand for data, driven by the rapid adoption and maturation of artificial…
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Maximize Flow Measurement Performance While Minimizing Energy Loss With Annubar Averaging Pitot Technology
Emerson’s Rosemount Annubar technology preserves valuable process energy by delivering reliable flow measurement in demanding liquid, steam, and gas applications. Differential pressure (DP) flow measurement remains one of the most widely used technologies in power generation,…
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Why Flat Performance Matters More Than Peak Efficiency in Data Center Design
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the power requirements of modern data centers. At this point in the timeline of AI’s continued evolution, this statement should not be controversial. The deployment of increasingly large GPU clusters for training and inference purposes,…