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As anyone familiar with the U.S. utility industry can tell you, the power generation business is cyclical. Fuel prices, regulations and capacity needs create periods of peak new-build and plant ...

Data centers are driving more power equipment orders than ever before. Data centers generated more orders for GE Vernova’s electrification equipment in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2025 ...

Williams Companies is advancing a power generation strategy that marks its most direct move into the electricity market. The company now has $5.1 billion committed to modular gas-fired or hybrid ...

America’s infrastructure is past its prime. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives it a D+ grade. The ASCE notes that many bridges, roads, the energy grid, railways, ports, airports, and water ...

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

A number of different HRSG designs are possible, and space limitations prevent a chemistry discussion of these variations. For this article, we will utilize a very common design shown schematically ...

Los Angeles has fully exited coal, city officials announced this week. The Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah, the last remaining source of coal-fired electricity serving the nation’s ...

Combined-cycle power plants operate by integrating a combustion turbine generator (CTG) and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with a steam turbine generator (STG). However, during some modes of ...

Long-term equipment maintenance and service programs are known by many names: long-term maintenance programs, contractual service agreements, and perhaps most commonly, long-term service agreements, ...

TVA plans to repurpose its retired Bull Run coal-fired plant with synchronous condensers for grid stability. As more electricity comes from intermittent renewable energy, maintaining grid stability ...

Experiments show the efficiency of a direct mechanical explosion and fire prevention strategy method. By: Guillaume Perigaud, Sébastien Muller, Gaà«l de Bressy, Ryan Brady and Philippe Magnier, ...