Sonal Patel
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Senior editor for POWER magazine (@POWERmagazine). News & infographics about energy, environment, policy, business, technology. Worldwide.
Joined December 2008
They make good gas turbines in China and India too…
GAS TURBINE SHORTAGE RISKS NEW ENERGY CRUNCH 🚨⚡ Orders for turbines for natural gas power plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand 🧵 Thread on how we got here and what it means for power-hungry nations
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1/7 Freshly published in @POWERmagazine: @BillGates explains why, in an essay, “If I had to pick the coolest thing I work on, it's hard to beat harnessing the power of atoms to fuel our world.” #nuclear 🔗 https://t.co/dZ2PdEFr4p
#NuclearEnergy #FusionEnergy #EnergyInnovation
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Bill Gates: 'The Future of Energy Is Subatomic'
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Federal Grid Interventions Enter a Second Phase as DOE Extends Emergency Orders
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DOE issues and extends multiple emergency grid orders in August 2025 under Section 202(c), keeping coal and oil-fired units online through winter amid unprecedented reliability risk.
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Another big #nuclear story this week: Aalo Atomics Secures Capital, Regulatory Backing for 2026 Modular Nuclear Project at INL, Eyes Potential First Data Center Pairing
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Advanced nuclear firm Aalo Atomics has secured new capital and regulatory backing to complete construction of its 10-MWe Aalo-X reactor at Idaho National
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TVA Inks First U.S. Utility PPA for Gen IV Nuclear Power in Landmark Three-Way Deal with #Google, #Kairos @POWERmagazine has the details. @TVAnews @KairosPower
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has signed a first-of-its-kind power purchase agreement (PPA) with advanced nuclear technology firm Kairos Power to
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Why is this such a big deal? Our in-depth piece here: Talen, Amazon Launch $18B #Nuclear PPA—A Grid-Connected IPP Model for the Data Center Era
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Talen Energy has restructured and significantly expanded its nuclear energy agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), finalizing a 17-year, $18 billion
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A question to #nuclear folks: Have the EOs signed today been made public? A point in the right direction would be great--don't seem to be on WH website yet, but everyone seems to have read them to report on them.
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Ahmed of Marsabit remains the most iconic of African tuskers. Gained protection of a Kenyan presidential decree (with armed guards) in 1970 until his natural death at 55 in 1974. My Diana Bunny print has badly faded; happy to know it once looked like this https://t.co/INONL9VqNS
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“The system will be running very tight.” NERC's Camilo Serna highlighted electric reliability concerns as demand rises while dispatchable resources retire. Get more insights from EPSA's Competitive Power Summit here: https://t.co/K1DtRuQs1D
#CPS25 #energy
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DOT has pulled the federal grant for Houston Dallas bullet train. A risky project it said, should be a private investment. Disappointing —but we’ll just keep making treacherous journey at donkey pace while world’s cities grow ever more sophisticated
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The grant, which was awarded in September in the final months of the Biden administration, was to be used in planning efforts to get the project moving again. The Trump administration now says the...
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PJM has tapped Google and its Alphabet X moonshot Tapestry to streamline its grid interconnection process using AI tools. The companies said the effort could significantly improve planning and decision-making as grid pressures intensify. https://t.co/4sAVU0W39C
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PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, has launched a multiyear partnership with tech giant Google and its Alphabet X moonshot Tapestry to
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Gas power is back—and OEMs can’t build #gasturbines fast enough. Our April cover story looks deeply at what that means for the demand boom.
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Gas power is experiencing a stunning resurgence, driven by soaring electricity demand. As utilities scramble to secure new capacity, a turbine supply crunch is unfolding.
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@Sonalcpatel Super writeup, @Sonalcpatel it’s most likely a hot spot formation; questions ought to be asked about maintenance (sp oil change and testing of the breather relays); transformer oil fires are relatively rare now even in the developing world.
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One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship #HeathrowAirport into chaos, questions remain about what went wrong—and what the incident reveals about the grids' vulnerabilities.
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One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting
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DOE reissued the GenIII+ #nuclear solicitation to reflect admin's priorities--and its key change is to drop community, DEI criteria. All applicants must resubmit. Full story here.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reissued a $900 million funding opportunity to accelerate deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactors
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$153M for a #coal unit environmental upgrade. Haven't done one of these stories in a while—feels like 2017 all over again.
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PPL subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) have proposed to upgrade environmental controls at a 1974-built coal unit, build two new gas-fired...
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In-depth: Yesterday, NRC marked a key #nuclear regulatory milestone for @TerraPower 's Kemmerer 1, Natrium SFR demo under construction in Wyoming. Our updated piece explores progress the company has made to date.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its draft safety evaluation (SE) a month ahead of schedule—albeit with open items—for
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I’m seeing #gasturbines everywhere. A piece of art at the Monarch building in Dallas I spotted today.
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Texas A&M is positioning its RELLIS campus as a proving ground in a bid to fast-track #SMR deployment. It just picked four #nuclear developers to accelerate commercialization.
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Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College...
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