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Improving the Efficiency of Power Plant Cooling Ponds

Coal
August 1, 2025

As electricity demand soars during summer heat waves, many power plants find themselves constrained by their ability to cool water efficiently for reuse. Innovative floating cooling technology is enabling

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June 16, 2026

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)…

Coal
June 9, 2026

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,…