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February 27, 2025
AI’s West Texas Diamond Dog
The nation’s energy big dogs are leaping on the opportunities AI data centers offer natural gas producers. ...
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January 10, 2025
Constellation Energy Expands its Cosmos
Back in September, the nation’s largest producer of clean, emissions-free energy shared some mighty big news. After purchasing the Pa., Three Mile Island Unit 1 in 1999, then retiring operations there in 2019 due to poor economics, Baltimore-based Constellation Energy landed a whale of a deal with Microsoft that would resuscitate the nuclear reactor to generate carbon-free electricity to power Microsoft’s Northeastern data centers...
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August 9, 2023
Thunder Makes All the Noise, But Lightning Does All the Work
The nation’s three power grids, comprised of 11,925 utility-scale power plants as of 2021, have a lot on their collective frontal lobe right now—and it’s less about July’s near-record demand in Ariz., Texas, and Calif., than the monster demand that’s coming. ...
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June 7, 2023
Things That Make You Say, ‘Hmm’
Interesting news nuggets today: Coming off a “high” of 12% last month, wind this week dropped to just 6% of the total energy used by U.S. power plants to generate electricity. By contrast, natural gas rose to 44% of the total vs 40% in the same period. ...
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December 27, 2022
The Big Texas Test
In the wake of surging power demand amid sub-zero temps, Christmas 2022 spawned bucketsful of warnings from the nation’s grid operators and utilities that ranged from turning down thermostats to not using gas appliances to avoid power failures. ...
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December 14, 2022
Here’s to the Little Guy That Finally Got its Due
With five employees as of November, Durham, N.C.-based NET Power is on the precipice of superstar status. ...
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