Geothermal
NextEra Energy, ACORE
An ACORE report says solar and wind can be deployed cheaply and quickly to meet the country’s rapidly escalating demand growth, while providing support for natural gas and nuclear plants.
Moonwater Capital
Nevada regulators have approved NV Energy’s clean transition tariff, a framework developed in partnership with Google that will allow the utility’s existing large-load customers to receive power from new clean energy resources.
Project InnerSpace
Speakers at an event promoting the use of geothermal energy discussed the technology's potential future.
Atlantic Council
The future of geothermal energy was the focus of a panel discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council in D.C.
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Hrkman got a respectful, if not enthusiastic reception from state energy officials at the NASEO conference, many of whom are waiting to see if they will receive the billions in IRA and IIJA dollars they were awarded for a range of clean projects.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, positioned himself as a supporter of an all-of-the-above approach to developing generation and transmission before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Switch
With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.
Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy Corp. will acquire Calpine Corp. in a deal that will create the largest U.S. fleet of zero- and low-emission power generation.
Shutterstock
The data center dilemma centers first on a familiar mismatch of timescales. Utilities and their regulators tend to plan based on the small, incremental demand growth. But development and the power demand it generates move at ever-increasing digital speed.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity could spike more than threefold over the next four years, rising from 4.4% of U.S. power demand in 2023 to as high as 12% in 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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