Fort Martin Power Station near Maidsville, West Virginia. A new 1,200-MW natural gas plant is planned next door. Photo: FirstEnergy. Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy, have ...
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 ...
Fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy announced an expansion of its relationship with Equinix, with the collaboration now exceeding 100MW of electricity capacity to support Equinix’s International ...
Nuclear fusion startup Pacific Fusion has introduced itself to the public, alongside the announcement that it has raised over $900 million in Series A funding. Led by Eric Lander, a principal leader ...
Renewable energy has blossomed in recent years and will continue to do so. However, increasing electrical demand from AI data centers and many other users will require a balanced energy mix for ...
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 ...
Hope Creek Generating Station. Image source U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is exploring the potential for direct power sales to data centers from its ...
And you thought the cost of a Big Mac was putting a damper on your finances? PJM Interconnection, the largest electrical grid operator in the United States, held its annual power market auction ...
During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...
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 ...
In its pure state, hydrogen is fine, but a mixture of air and hydrogen can be explosive. Then, why hydrogen? Operating an electric power generator produces large amounts of heat that must be removed ...