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BILL GATES' NUCLEAR PLANT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING — TerraPower breaks ground in Wyoming...
RTO Insider
TerraPower's sodium-cooled Natrium reactor breaks ground in Wyoming within weeks — the first advanced nuclear project to hit this milestone in a generation. Dispatchable, purpose-built for baseload. The AI era's kind of nuclear.
DOE DROPS $26.5 BILLION ON SOUTHERN COMPANY — One of the largest energy infrastructure loans ever...
RTO Insider
DOE committed $26.5 billion to Southern Company for grid upgrades across the Southeast — one of the largest energy loans in US history, as the region absorbs some of the fastest industrial load growth in the country.
STORM BEARS DOWN ON THE GRID — Midwest to Mid-Atlantic bracing for stress...
New York Times
A major winter storm is tracking across the US this week, straining transmission lines and reserve margins from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic — at a moment when data center loads are running at historic levels.
EUROPE'S BLACKOUT IS AMERICA'S WARNING SHOT — same vulnerabilities, same inaction...
E&E News
Spain and Portugal went dark — and the US grid shares the same structural gaps: inverter-heavy generation, inadequate inertia, weak interregional backup. We're not fixing any of them.
NORTHWEST ON THE EDGE: Rolling blackouts feared as renewables 'may not be enough'...
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The Pacific Northwest faces potential rolling blackouts even as renewables expand — intermittent generation can't carry peak load alone. WECC has the region in the "crosshairs."
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