Work to add higher-voltage capacity and 10,000 miles of new lines faces key issues in siting, cost allocation and regulatory tension, says transmission sector consultant Grid Strategies in Sept. 13 report. 

Lithium-ion battery developer KORE Power Inc. to supplement cost of $1.25-billion advanced EV battery manufacturing plant underway in Buckeye, Ariz., with $850-million conditional U.S. Energy Dept. loan. 

Midcontinent Independent System Operator, operating in 15 states, will bid 18 new transmission projects to connect 56 GW of clean power and add weather hardening.

Just 53% of the population of Bangladesh has electricity. The Bibiyana South Combined-Cycle Power Plant, a single-shaft configuration fueled by natural gas, is part of the South Asian nation’s Power System Master Plan to help achieve electrification in the largely rural northeast.

This 1967 natural gas power plant in the Russian Republic of Tartarstan and the city of Nizhnekamsk needed to deliver 495-MW capacity to customers and reduce its emissions.

Citing continued construction challenges and the need for additional testing time, Georgia Power has pushed back by three months its timeline for the Vogtle units 3 and 4 nuclear powerplant expansion, the first new plant construction in years.

Duke Energy Progress is building an $898-million combined-cycle natural-gas plant in Asheville, N.C.

The new plant replaces the old Provo Power Plant, which was demolished in 2016 after serving the community for more than 75 years.