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)…
From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat
System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades,…
Five Winters After Uri: Why Winter Readiness Must Go Beyond Weatherization
From EOP-012-3 to Order 587-AB, from Cold Weather Critical Component inventories to dual-fuel conversions, the bulk power system has spent five years rewiring how it prepares for extreme cold. Winter…
A Middleware Approach to AI-Ready Power Asset
How industrial middleware unlocks the full value of operational data AI and why most AI programs fail without it Power companies are being asked to deliver higher reliability while their…
POWER Reveals 2026 Awards Finalists; Readers to Choose Plant of the Year
POWER is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2026 POWER Awards, recognizing the projects, people, and organizations setting the pace for the global power industry. Winners will be revealed…
PJM’s First Reformed Queue Cycle Draws 811 Projects, 220 GW
PJM Interconnection’s first interconnection “cycle” under its revamped, clustered review process has attracted 811 new generation projects representing roughly 220 GW of nameplate capacity. The effort now moves to a…
Death Toll from Boiler Explosion at Vedanta’s India Coal Power Plant Rises to 24, Triggers Probes
A catastrophic boiler explosion at Vedanta Limited’s Chhattisgarh Thermal Power Plant (VLCTPP) in east‑central India has left scores of workers dead and injured, prompting questions over boiler safety enforcement and…
China Restarting Massive Coal-to-Gas Project After Decade-Long Pause
Chinese officials have said they will revive a multibillion-dollar coal gasification project, in part due to global gas supply disruptions caused by the U.S. and Isreal’s war with Iran. The…
Rural Co-ops Navigate a New Era of Load Growth, Rising Costs, and Policy Pressure
After decades of relatively flat electricity demand, the U.S. power sector is suddenly racing to keep up—and rural electric cooperatives, which serve 42 million people across 54% of the nation’s…
Taiwan Joins Others in Asia Restarting Coal-Fired Units Due to Iran War
Officials with Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) said the energy company plans to resume operations at two coal-fired units for at least three months, as the country seeks to support its…
