The old phrase “If these walls could talk,” suggests that a building, house, or even a single room, harbors the history of that place as inanimate witnesses of the past. If you’re hip to that concept, then the nation’s oldest natural gas pipelines also have stories worth discovery. This is one of the latest. ...
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The nation’s energy big dogs are leaping on the opportunities AI data centers offer natural gas producers. ...
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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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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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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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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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