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The renewable energy industry and its advocates have initiated two more lawsuits against the Trump administration over its continuing campaign against wind and solar energy development.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said its approval of the digital upgrade at Constellation Energy’s Limerick Clean Energy Center paves the way for instrumentation and control modernization across the U.S. commercial fleet.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $900 million each to three companies to help expand the nation’s uranium enrichment capabilities.
Three of the four developers building wind farms in U.S. waters are challenging the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 order suspending all such construction.
Flexibility will be a core attribute of the various scenarios and solutions being discussed to meet the snowballing estimates of U.S. electric power demand, says columnist K Kaufmann.
The Trump administration has ordered all offshore wind generation construction halted and has stalled some onshore wind projects.
The degree of risk and uncertainty springing from indifferent or outright obstructive new federal policies in 2025 has trimmed planned solar deployment.
The demand for energy storage capacity is driving a flurry of proposals for new pumped storage hydropower while proposals for new conventional facilities are limited to small-scale projects.
After a long decline in the U.S., coal-fired generation is enjoying strong policy support in the second Trump administration.
Commercial nuclear energy in the U.S. begins 2026 with strong momentum toward future expansion, but it will be years before new-build capacity comes online and possibly a decade or more before a significant amount of new gigawatts is added to the grid.
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