Vistra Corp.'s Midlothian Power Plant. State lawmakers have approved more than $7 billion to provide low-interest loans to companies that agree to build more gas-fired power plants in Texas. “Texas' ...
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
So you want a new gas power plant? Better start waiting. As an ongoing policy experiment in Texas shows, even a helping hand from the state can’t get steel in the ground ahead of schedule. Last year, ...
Data centers are largely driving the sudden rise in natural gas power projects on the waiting list to connect to Texas' grid.
Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.
The Hays Energy Project, a 990 MW gas-fired power plant near San Marcos, is seen on May 27, 2025. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization ...
Energy Australia says the proposed 1.4-gigawatt gas-fired power plant would be critical to the energy transition by supplying ...
Blue Energy and GE Vernova have unveiled plans for a combined nuclear and natural ...
“Natural gas is highly flexible with its ability to come online quickly and ramp up or down as needed,” a company ...