Reinvention Award Finalist: Moneypoint Synchronous Condenser
The integration of intermittent renewable energy to power grids worldwide has meant there’s a need for technologies designed to support grid stability. Siemens Energy, working with Electricity Supply Board (ESB),…
WA Parish Integrates Thermal Evaporation to Tackle FGD Wastewater
POWER’s 2026 Top Plant Water Award winner—WA Parish Unit 8 in Texas—integrated commercial-scale thermal evaporation into an operating coal plant, pairing verified performance with a retrofit that leveraged existing plant…
Retired and Retiring Coal Plants Offer the Grid’s Fastest Path to New Capacity
Load growth has an overlooked answer: reinvesting in the coal sites being retired. Data centers, manufacturing, and electrification are pushing load growth faster than new generation and transmission can keep…
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POWER Digest [October 2026]
Financing Set for Puerto Rican Solar Park. Infinigen, a Puerto Rico-based independent power producer, in late August announced the closing of a $33 million tax equity investment in the Yabucoa…
Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Michigan Coal-Fired Plant Operating
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Trump administration’s order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan operating. The decision could impact other orders…
Coal Got an Order. Nuclear Got a Meeting
The most consequential number in current American energy planning is one that nobody in the room where it gets made believes. I sell into data center buildouts, so I sit…
Condenser Chemistry Management: From Grab Samples to Predictive Digital Twins
When I walk into the main office of a power plant, it’s always on the main TV screen, along with heat rate, load, and other critical numbers. I’m talking about…
In the Thar Desert, Pakistan Proves Its Indigenous Coal Can Be a Reliable Power Resource
Engro Powergen Thar Limited turned an untapped desert coalfield into Pakistan’s cheapest power—and a template for energy independence. Pakistan entered the second half of the 2010s in chronic power deficit.…
APS Will Convert Retired Coal Units to Burn Natural Gas at Cholla Site
Arizona Public Service (APS) said it plans to convert two closed coal-fired units at its Cholla Power Plant to burn natural gas. The utility this month said construction on the…
A New Coal Plant in the U.S.? Once Unthinkable, Now a Strong Maybe
A $350 million Department of Energy (DOE) coal-revival program has put $18.5 million toward the TerraSpark Energy Campus, a 1.6-GW greenfield project in West Virginia pairing Babcock & Wilcox (B&W)…
