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Data centers as dynamic grid assets? New Jersey site using solar and storage for flexibility

Iron Mountain's NJE-1 data center integrates large-scale storage with the facility's existing 7.2 megawatt (MW) rooftop solar installation. Courtesy: Iron Mountain via BusinessWire If 90’s ...
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Data center power crunch lifts engines, aeroderivatives into larger role

Wärtsilä’s 34SG engines. Source: Wärtsilä. A wave of procurement announcements over the past two weeks has underscored how quickly reciprocating engines and aeroderivative turbines are moving from ...
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Proper Steam Bypass System Design Avoids Steam Turbine Overheating

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 ...
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New Benchmarks for Steam Turbine Efficiency

In the 20th century, steam turbines became the most powerful electric power generators available, accounting for more than 50 percent of the world’s installed power generation capacity. However, many ...
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The day has arrived: Here are the recipients of $7 billion in federal hydrogen hub funding

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Oct. 13 named seven regional clean hydrogen hubs to receive $7 billion in federal funding, a long-awaited announcement for an initiative aimed at accelerating ...
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Onsite gas turbines, reciprocating engines to power Meta data center

A natural gas-fired plant to be located behind-the-meter of an Ohio data center campus was approved for construction this week. The 200-megawatt (MW) Socrates South Power Generation Project is to be ...
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EthosEnergy launches performance center for remote operations and monitoring

EthosEnergy is rolling out its performance center for remote monitoring applications. EthosEnergy said its center combines 24/7 remote start-stop capabilities with asset monitoring, diagnostics and ...
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Fervo lands first offtaker for Phase 1 of Cape Station geothermal project, expands to 500 MW

Drilling operations at Fervo’s Cape Station (Image: Fervo). Fervo Energy, a player in next-generation geothermal development space, announced the execution of a 15-year power purchase agreement with ...
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Utilities want to regain the ability to build power plants in PJM. Consumer advocates say that’s probably a bad idea

The Kearny Generating Station, owned and operated by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, is seen in Kearny, N.J. Source: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. This article ...
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Calpine lands 190-MW agreement for new hyperscale data center in Texas

Houston-based Calpine Corporation announced a new 190-megawatt (MW) agreement with Dallas-based CyrusOne, a global data center developer and operator, to serve a new data center adjacent to the Thad ...
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Data centers have a PR problem – POWERGEN 2026’s third Keynote addresses the elephant in the room

(From left to right: Simon Tusha, CEO - TECfusions; Gene Alessandrini, SVP of Energy and Location Strategy - CyrusOne; Jennifer Knott, Executive Director, Strategy Implementation - NextEra Energy; ...
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Entergy Louisiana gets approval to build 3 new combined cycle plants to power huge Meta data center

A render of the Richland Parish data center project (Credit: Meta) The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) has approved an agreement that allows Entergy Louisiana to move forward with what the ...