Category: Electrical Generation / Utilities

South Korea’s Hyosung Heavy Industries has locked in ₩386.5 billion (about $277–$287 million) in ultra-high-voltage transformer contracts with two unnamed U.S. Big Tech companies for new AI data centers—one in the South and one in the North.

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The award is smaller than some of Hyosung’s earlier 2026 utility mega-deals, but it is strategically important: hyperscalers are now buying grid hardware directly, and Hyosung is one of the few firms that can deliver 765 kV equipment from a U.S. factory. The split is ₩220 billion of 765 kV transformers for the southern site […]

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EPA poised to scrap power plant carbon standards: a reliability and energy-security reset as demand surges

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to formally rescind the Biden-era carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, completing a multi-year rollback of greenhouse-gas rules that the administration argues threatened grid reliability and raised costs. Reports indicate the announcement is timed for a G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston […]

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National Emergency Securing U.S. Bulk Power Sources and Supply Chains – Doomberg and Steven Wang, CEO, Jackery Americas Stop by.

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We have an action-packed podcast lined up with Doomberg and Steven Wang, CEO of Jackery Americas. We’ll cover the new executive order on the United States grid’s transformers, supply chain, and key components. Some of these components have years-long resupply times in a disaster, and many people could be without power for considerable periods. The […]

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Why are American’s utility bills are going up? Doug Sheridan has some great points.

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ENB Pub Note: This article was on Doug Sheridan’s LinkedIn post and his insights are spot on. Americans’ utility bills are delivering unpleasant surprises, with residential electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of core inflation. California, Maine and New York have seen multi‑year rate hikes that would’ve been politically unthinkable a decade ago. […]

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U.S. utilities and grid operators are urging households to prepare for tighter electricity supplies, possible rolling blackouts during extreme weather, and new risks from large loads like data centers

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Kind of Ironic that we lost power over the holiday and had a great dry run. Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. As we had company, a storm rolled in on us, and only 900 people in our county were without power. As you have heard me say, it is better to prepare […]

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