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Southern Company is a major U.S. energy holding company based in Atlanta, operating utilities including Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and Mississippi Power.
DOE approved added cost-shared funding to speed the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment toward criticality as early as 2027. That date is a developer target, and it would give designers their first measured data on a design they have so far only modeled.
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Southern Company is notifying about 400,000 customers that an intruder accessed their account details, including partial SSNs, through its online portal. Those fields give a scammer what they need to pose as the customer's own power company.
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Google is nearing a nuclear power deal with Constellation Energy worth $1 billion or more, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. If the power comes from existing plants, Google would be buying from the same fleet that already supplies Amazon and Microsoft.
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Altman and OpenAI's energy policy lead have taken the Daybreak programme to America's biggest electric utilities. The obstacle in that room is a cost recovery rule, and model capability is irrelevant to it.
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Georgia Power has put its 128 MW Robins battery into commercial operation next to a solar plant. The much larger queue of approved storage behind it sits mostly at existing power plant sites.
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UtilityInnovation does real-time load and frequency balancing behind the meter. Nearly half of Vertiv's maximum price rides on 12- and 24-month financial targets, a bet that the orders are already queued.
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