Commonwealth Fusion Systems took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began the week following Independence Day with a bang, releasing a report that the status quo is unsustainable for the U.S. electric grid. According to DOE, ...
On a 94-acre industrial parcel in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Commonwealth Fusion Systems wants to build something that ...
What new nuclear technologies mean for safety, costs, and more. Nuclear power continues to be one of the hottest topics in energy today, and in our recent online Roundtables discussion about ...
Image by Kevin Clark via Chat GPT 5.2. As a follow-up to the recent condenser performance monitoring series for Factor This Power Engineering, I am revisiting a topic from several years ago. It ...
People in the power industry understand inertia and its importance to grid stability. As large thermal power plants and other inertia-providing units are replaced with renewable resources that provide ...
The first large-scale equipment - the feedwater reserve tank - has been placed within the turbine building of unit 3 at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant. (Image: Akkuyu Nuclear) The feedwater ...
Centralized remote monitoring is reshaping power plant operations, enabling specialized teams to oversee multiple facilities from a single location. This discussion examines the technology, benefits, ...
A coal power plant that does not burn coal sounds like a trick question. But a Shenzhen University team led by Xie Heping ...