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DOE’s Reconductoring Bet

The most consequential U.S. electric-power development this week concerned neither a new power plant nor a high-voltage corridor. It concerned the wires already in place....

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AI’s Power Bill: Who Pays?

The defining fight in the American electric-power sector is no longer whether the grid can be built fast enough to serve the surge in artificial-intelligence...

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The 580-MW VPP Breakthrough

For the better part of a decade, virtual power plants occupied an awkward position in the American electricity conversation. Utilities and system operators acknowledged the...

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Nuclear Power’s AI Moment

For the better part of a generation, the story of American nuclear power was one of managed decline. Reactors that had run reliably for decades...

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Power Demand Breaks the Plateau

The American power system is producing more electricity than at any point in its history, and the pace is accelerating. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s...

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