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Perfectly tailored to Bulgaria’s utility-scale needs, PowerTitan 2.0 supports grid stability in high solar penetration zones like Southern Bulgaria and enhances hybrid renewable setups. ...
Type One Energy announced this week that it had successfully completed the first formal design review of Infinity Two, which is based on the world’s only implementable, peer-reviewed physics basis for a fusion power plant recently published by the prestigious Journal of Plasma Physics. The Infinity Two design is progressing in support of a potential fusion power plant project with the Tennessee ...
Provisional assessment shows potential for 135 gigawatts of baseload power – if current technology works at scale in Nevada and 5 adjoining states. The projected 10 percent would be a major increase, as geothermal energy currently generates less than 1 percent of the nation’s power supply. The new assessment, which updates a 2008 USGS assessment, depends on widespread ...
Avangrid, Inc., a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, this week announced five projects in Ithaca, NY, totalling $41 million in new investment, to improve the capacity and reliability of the area’s electrical grid. This major investment in Ithaca’s grid infrastructure builds on Avangrid’s effort to modernize New York’s electrical and gas infrastructure totalling over $500 ...
The California Independent System Operator Board of Governors has approved the ISO’s 2024-2025 transmission plan, recommending 31 infrastructure projects to help meet projected load growth and changing grid conditions.The plan identifies 28 transmission projects required to reliably supply the increase in forecasted demand related to electrification, particularly in the Greater San Francisco Bay ...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an agreement to provide €700 million for the construction of two large-scale offshore wind farms developed by Norway’s Equinor and Poland’s Polenergia off the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea. The twin Bałtyk 2 and Baltyk 3 wind farms will have a shared capacity of 1.44 GW and are expected to go online fully in 2028. “Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 are important ...
Following another year of robust growth, global sales of electric cars are on track to surpass 20 million in 2025, accounting for over a quarter of cars sold worldwide, according to the new edition of the IEA’s annual Global EV Outlook. The report, out this week, shows that despite recent economic headwinds that have put pressure on the auto sector, global sales of electric cars have continued to ...
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced it will redirect $365 million in funding to address Puerto Rico’s grid resiliency and expand access of affordable, reliable, and secure power supply for the people of Puerto Rico. The funding, allocated through the Puerto Rico Resilience Fund (PR-ERF), will be deployed to support practical fixes and emergency activities that offer a faster, more ...
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has approved Google's first-of-its-kind partnership with NV Energy to bring new, clean capacity to Nevada under the Clean Transition Tariff (CTT). This new type of utility rate creates a scalable pathway for utilities and large energy users to invest in clean, reliable electricity and accelerate advanced technologies. The CTT can be replicated in many ...
At its May 6 meeting, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors took action to preserve regional grid reliability by approving SPP’s proposed Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS). SPP developed ERAS in collaboration with its stakeholders and in response to an imminent and growing need to bring new generating resources online before the region’s generating capacity is outpaced by its ...
BC Hydro is leading an innovative new Peak Saver project under its Power Smart portfolio to transform homes in two B.C. communities into virtual power plants, offering uninterrupted power to customers while strengthening the flexibility of the electricity grid. ...
Enverus, an energy-dedicated SaaS company that leverages generative AI across its solutions, is releasing its 2025 Interconnection Queue Outlook, a comprehensive collection of power generation and transmission projects that show requests to connect to the U.S. power grid. Leveraging its proprietary machine learning model, Enverus assigns a probability of success to every queued power plant ...
This week renewable energy in New Brunswick takes another major step forward with the signing of four wind Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and the issuing of new Requests for Expressions of Interest (REOIs) for additional renewable energy to power the New Brunswick grid. The PPAs total just over 450 megawatts of clean wind energy. This milestone underscores NB Power’s leadership in ...
SKF announces a partnership with wave energy technology development company Carnegie Clean Energy Limited to deliver Carnegie’s CETO’s Power Take-Off (PTO) system. CETO is a unique, fully submerged, point absorber type wave energy technology where a submerged buoy sits a few metres below the surface of the ocean and moves with the ocean’s waves. This motion drives a PTO system that converts it ...
New Mexico's community solar program, passed by the state legislature and signed into law in 2021, is officially live after years of planning between utilities, solar developers, and local advocates. Residents and businesses across the state can tap into the power of solar energy without installing rooftop panels or switching utility providers.In addition to reducing energy bills, the program is ...
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company LLC, an energy transition-focused investment manager and independent power producer, this week announced the start of major construction activities on its Cider Solar Farm in Genesee County, New York. Cider, which broke ground on early construction activities in late 2024, was the first renewable energy project of its kind to receive a siting permit from the ...
Load growth is expected to drive higher peak demand this summer and could strain resources in some areas during certain periods. According to NERC’s 2025 Summer Reliability Assessment, aggregated peak demand is forecast to increase across all 23 assessment areas by 10 GW—more than double the increase from 2023 to 2024. New data centers, electrification, and industrial activity are ...
This week, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight field hearing on geothermal energy development on federal lands. “In order to restore American energy dominance, we must utilize an all-of-the-above approach that includes geothermal energy. That’s why I was proud to lead a field hearing today in Utah - which has some of the most abundant geothermal energy resources in ...
The EPB Board has approved a new initiative to keep Chattanooga on the leading edge by adding a quantum computer to EPB’s existing quantum technology infrastructure. Through a partnership with IonQ, a global leader in quantum technology, the two companies will jointly develop the first U.S. quantum technology center to provide commercial access to both quantum computing and quantum networking ...
As energy delivery becomes more complex, ADMS can help utilities manage increasing energy demands, integrate renewable energy sources to the grid, maintain grid stability and resiliency, regulation and compliance, and ensure customer satisfaction and safety.Most American companies either train employees on the job or contract ADMS skills and services from outside ...