An escalating trade war between the United States and Canada is once again threatening to ensnare the electric power sector at a time when consumers are already stretched thin. Canada is expected to announce retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian goods went into...
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has selected 13 new projects across 12 companies for its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative in a significant expansion of the DOE-authorization pathway that channels advanced reactor and fuel-cycle developers toward demonstration on federal and non-federal sites. The selections—spanning microreactor developers, enrichment startups, fuel fabrication...
Smaller municipal utilities like Silicon Valley Power are getting squeezed by the artificial intelligence build-out. Although Silicon Valley Power is working on doubling its capacity, the utility can’t keep up with rising demand from its customers, such as Nvidia and Intel, that want more immediately. “All the spare capacity we may have had in the...
Microsoft and PowerHouse Hillwood Holding are in disputes over agreements laying out terms and requirements for serving their planned data centers in Wisconsin and Illinois, according to filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The disagreements come after FERC in mid-June found that grid operators’ rules for interconnecting large loads may be inadequate. In its...
The US state of Utah has signed an deal with clean energy company Deployable Energy Limited to explore one megawatt (1 MW) nuclear reactors small enough to fit inside a standard 20-foot (6-meter) shipping container. The Houston-based firm signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Utah Office of Energy Development (OED) on Tuesday, August...
Woodside Energy considers everything to be on the table in a review of its Beaumont New Ammonia facility in Texas, raising the prospect that it could seek a buyer for a project that it agreed to acquire for US$2.35 billion only two years ago. Chief Executive Liz Westcott said the review reflected a shift in...
Donald Trump’s administration is teaming up with a British company to help it build a fleet of nuclear-powered merchant vessels to challenge China’s growing dominance of commercial shipbuilding, a top US official has said. Stephen Carmel, administrator of the US Maritime Administration at the transport department, told the FT that Washington would sign a public-private...
California and Texas have led the charge on America’s grid battery revolution. Now, a third state is racing to catch up: Arizona. The Grand Canyon State installed more battery capacity than every state besides Texas over the first half of 2026, per a Canary Media analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data. It’s the continuation...
After an earlier reform effort proved ineffective, the PJM Interconnection is taking a second swing at creating a pathway for bringing generation online by using surplus interconnection capacity at existing power facilities. Surplus interconnection service, called SIS, allows a new generator or energy storage system to connect to the grid at a power facility’s existing...
India is counting on increasing investments in battery storage to help abate the mounting curtailments of solar power that the grid is currently unable to absorb. Projects that are not equipped with battery storage are unlikely to find buyers, with almost 42 gigawatts of planned capacity yet to sign offtake contracts, Renewables Secretary Santosh Kumar...
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