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America’s SMR Moment, Part I: Oklo, Global Competition, and the Hard Math Behind the Next Nuclear Buildout

March 24, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – America’s power demands are rising at a pace the grid was never designed for, driven largely by data‑center growth, electrification, AI compute, and industrial reshoring. Supply, meanwhile, is struggling to keep up — especially in regions where energy‑hungry infrastructure is racing ahead of generation. In Texas, for example, grid operators warned in

Trump to nominate Swett for FERC head, chair says

June 3, 2025

(Investing) – WASHINGTON-U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Laura Swett as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the current head of the panel and a White House official said. Swett, an energy lawyer with Vinson & Elkins, represents pipeline and power companies in cases before FERC and has been an adviser to a chair and a commissioner, both Republicans, at

Data centers are eating the grid alive

December 20, 2024

(Oil Price) – The future of data centers is about to make a huge draw on the power grid. According to a DOE-backed report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, U.S. data center energy use could nearly triple by 2028, eating up as much as 12% of the country’s electricity. Why? Blame AI and its insatiable hunger for powerful chips and energy-guzzling

US utilities boosting capex plans to meet demand from power-guzzling sectors

November 22, 2024

(BOE Report) – Major U.S. utilities are expected to spend heavily on upgrading their electric lines and grids over the next five years to cater to power-hungry sectors, although experts worry that their plans to raise rates sharply to offset higher costs may face regulatory hurdles. In the past few weeks, about nine utilities had raised their capital expenditure forecast by

How to prepare the “Largest machine in the world” for AI

October 28, 2024

(Oil & Gas 360) – As Artificial Intelligence (AI) expands to potentially revolutionize every aspect of human existence, the expected electrical demands required by the power devouring technology in its earliest stages present a formidable planning and financing challenge for utilities and other power plant developers. The so-called electrical boom, the result of everything from growing economies and populations, cloud computing

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America’s SMR Moment, Part I: Oklo, Global Competition, and the Hard Math Behind the Next Nuclear Buildout

Trump to nominate Swett for FERC head, chair says

Data centers are eating the grid alive

US utilities boosting capex plans to meet demand from power-guzzling sectors

How to prepare the “Largest machine in the world” for AI

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