Fusion startups just had their best year since 2022, pulling in $2.64B in new funding as investor confidence rebounds and pilot plants inch closer to reality. That’s up 178% from last year. (FIA) ...

GE Vernova is acquiring Alteia, a French startup using computer vision to help utilities spot grid issues faster. (Axios) Alteia’s software is already familiar to GE Vernova’s utility clients through ...

How do we build a more reliable grid? Better planning, per a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. (Latitude Media) The report outlines five ways to relieve grid strain: smarter transmission ...

Wall Street’s latest obsession: US electric utilities. It’s a bid to cash in on rising electricity demand driven by AI data centers, EVs, factories, and heat pumps. (NYT) Investment firms including ...

The demand for cleaner electric energy grows each year with electrification of transportation, space conditioning, vertical agriculture, industrial processes and hyperscalers. Some say that America ...

By Kennedy Maize Do U.S. electric power suppliers looking to nuclear power to serve AI data centers need a new way to finance new plants? An analysis by the Haynes Boone law firm says the conventional ...

Utilities’ IRPs are highlighting the challenges of meeting soaring demand. In Q2 of this year, utilities that updated their IRPs increased projected load through 2035 by 2% and emissions by 4.5%, ...

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Introduction Power distribution networks are increasingly exposed to decentralized and variable sources of weather-dependent renewable energy (RE) generation. This is because countries including India ...

The cost of building utility-scale solar and battery storage is set to spike by as much as 50% in some cases thanks to new and proposed tariffs targeting Chinese imports, per a new Wood Mackenzie ...

Japan’s Sumitomo will invest £7.5 billion in UK clean energy over the next decade, focusing on offshore wind, hydrogen, and power grid infrastructure. (CNA) The deal marks a major vote of confidence ...

Why Aren’t All Nuclear Power Plants Built Above Deep Mine Shafts? In the event of an accident, the reactor could automatically drop into the shaft and be permanently sealed, preventing catastrophic ...