India’s Tata Power is examining potential sites in three states for future nuclear power projects but is awaiting further regulatory clarity before finalising plans, Chief Executive Praveer Sinha said on Wednesday. India’s parliament in December approved a landmark atomic energy bill that allows private and foreign companies to enter the nuclear power sector, as the …
Data center demand “climbed to 18% of our industrial load in 2025, and we are projecting data center growth to double in our region by 2030,” said CEO Don Moul. The Tennessee Valley Authority saw demand growth of around 1% to 2% in the last three months of 2025, and it anticipates “more robust” growth …
-Xcel Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: XEL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) to accelerate the delivery of generation resources to serve large load customers, including data centers. This MOU represents an expansion of a long-standing commercial relationship between Xcel Energy and NextEra Energy. The parties expect to …
Kazakhstan has approved plans for a second nuclear power plant in a significant scaling up of the country’s nuclear ambitions. It comes a year after a referendum, which suggested more than 71 per cent support for the project, but which was also accompanied by allegations of irregularities. Now, just over a year after the 2024 …
By coordinating the full nuclear lifecycle, the department aims to bolster national energy security and global market leadership. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from states interested in hosting Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. his initiative is designed to modernize the domestic nuclear fuel cycle by …
India is set to order a third fleet of locally designed reactors as part of an ambitious effort to expand nuclear power capacity at a manageable cost, according to people familiar with the plan. The government is considering seeking bids to build as many as 10 pressurised heavy water reactors with a capacity of …
Uzbekistan’s plans to begin construction of its first nuclear power plant have come under renewed scrutiny following the publication of a draft state program suggesting the start of work could be postponed until December 2026. The draft made public on the regulation.adliya.uz portal prompted widespread media speculation. According to the document, Uzbekistan intends to spend 2026 negotiating, …
Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri stated India aims for 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047 under the new SHANTI Bill, while continuing to rely on oil and gas to ensure energy security. Abruptly halting conventional fuel investments could slash global output by 8%. The pragmatic strategy balances clean energy growth, renewables, and biofuels amid …
Namibia is weighing nuclear power generation to cut electricity imports and strengthen long-term energy security, a senior government official said. “Nuclear energy generation has become a serious option that we are pursuing vigorously,” National Planning Commission Director-General Kaire Mbuende said at the World Economic Foru in Davos, Switzerland. The southern Africa nation, which is the world’s third-largest producer of …
Dialogue with CNNC addresses uranium chain, SMRs and restructuring of Brazil’s nuclear sector Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, held a meeting on Thursday in Shanghai with executives from the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to deepen bilateral dialogue on the development of the nuclear sector and the application of advanced technologies, including …