Power Engineering

1 week ago | power-eng.com | Paul Gerke

There is no deus ex machina coming for clean energy, after all. The United States Senate Committee on Finance could have stood in the way of the House of Representatives' steamrolling of cleantech incentives in its version of the hotly contested budget bill, but ultimately, lobbying from industry advocates and legislators on both sides of the aisle amounted to white noise and wishful thinking.

1 week ago | power-eng.com | Paul Gerke

Do you ever feel like maybe you weren't hardwired to handle all of the stimuli that the modern world throws at you? It's hard enough, I think, for humans to manage a social circle larger than a few dozen people, much less properly process constant tragedies a world away. Last night, for example, my brain was tasked with trying to make sense of an incredible Oilers comeback in game four of the Stanley Cup Finals on one screen and a doomscroll of the Israel-Iran conflict on another.

2 weeks ago | power-eng.com | Paul Gerke

If even the low end of U.S. load growth projections comes to fruition, we will need to figure out how to bring electric infrastructure online more quickly and efficiently. In many places, our one-way system of poles and wires is showing its age; it wasn't exactly built to handle data center demand or integrate renewables, after all.

2 weeks ago | power-eng.com | Josh Crawford

By Josh Crawford, Energy Storage Technology Manager, Burns & McDonnell The beginning of our journey: Modularity and practicalityIntegration of energy storage products begins at the cell level and manufacturers have adopted different approaches toward modular design of internal systems, all with the goal of improving manufacturing efficiencies, reducing maintenance time and improving operational reliability.

3 weeks ago | power-eng.com | Kevin Clark

The U.S. solar industry has experienced remarkable growth over the past few years. Solar accounted for 84 percent of the nation's power additions in 2024, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that solar capacity will double in just four years. However, the industry's rapid scaling hasn't been entirely without growing pains. Solar's explosive growth over the last 15-20 years hasn't been met with an equally robust investment in training or workforce development.