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General interactive map for power plants in the USA and worldwide.

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Hello all. A few months ago I gained the moderator role of this sub through Reddit requests as it was inactive and unmoderated for a while. I’ve been making posts to show that this subreddit is active and there definitely seems to be a preference towards the power plant photos posts and not so much the articles, although I like to share the relevant ones I find interesting to show this sub is now active. So I’ll ask the community since there seems to be traffic now, what would you think to see on this sub in terms of posts and the overall community vibe?

High points:
-China outspent the U.S. by more than 2-to-1 on clean energy investment between 2019 and 2025, and dominates global solar, wind and battery supply chains.
-The U.S. has carved out a lead in enhanced geothermal and next-generation nuclear power, two of the few clean energy sectors still drawing bipartisan support.
-The Department of Energy projects enhanced geothermal alone could supply 90 gigawatts of power by 2050, enough for roughly 65 million homes.

This article delves into how engineers are redesigning wind turbines to make them more efficient, reliable, and easier to deploy. Innovations include larger and lighter blades, floating offshore platforms that can access stronger winds in deep water, improved materials, AI-assisted monitoring and maintenance, and alternative turbine designs such as vertical-axis turbines. These aim to lower costs, increase energy output, and help wind power play a larger role in future energy production, despite ongoing challenges like manufacturing costs and maintenance.

Connector design significantly impacts Battery Energy Storage Systems by influencing deployment speed, system reliability, and long-term maintenance. Strategic engineering and tool-free features help reduce wiring errors while preventing system imbalances and mid-project obsolescence.

Highlights:

The Trump administration wants to expand U.S. nuclear capacity through new reactors, power uprates, and the return of previously shuttered plants.

Holtec’s Palisades restart has encountered corrosion, equipment repairs, supply-chain problems, and other unexpected challenges that illustrate the difficulty of reviving an aging reactor.

Other projects, particularly Constellation’s Crane Clean Energy Center, could prove easier to restart and demonstrate that the viability of reactor recommissioning varies significantly by plant.

>A decade after Dominion Energy secured a federal lease off Virginia Beach, the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project has cleared the full U.S. permitting stack, survived a federal stop-work order, and reached a crucial first power milestone. Equipped with 176 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD turbines, CVOW is the most advanced offshore wind project ever built in U.S. federal waters.

The article describes how Beaver Island, Michigan, is becoming an important test site for freshwater wave energy, with researchers from the University of Michigan developing wave energy converters that can generate electricity from Lake Michigan’s waves. Unlike ocean environments, the Great Lakes provide a lower-cost, less corrosive setting for refining the technology while still offering realistic operating conditions. The project was co-designed with island residents to improve energy reliability for the remote community, which currently depends on underwater power cables and diesel backup generators. If successful, the technology could eventually provide a new renewable energy option for isolated coastal and island communities around the world.