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Powering the future: How Gen AI and AI illuminate utility companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While international conflict, economic uncertainty and climate change are affecting businesses of all kinds, energy companies and utilities are also dealing with aging infrastructure, constant cyberattacks, increased regulation and rising customer expectations. And by 2028, the AI spend is likely to more than quadruple to 14.257 billion USD.

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TerraPower warns of 2-year minimum delay for launch of demo reactor due to Russia-Ukraine war

GeekWire

The CEO of the Bill Gates-backed nuclear power company TerraPower is warning that operation of its demonstration plant is expected to begin at least two years later than its original target of 2028. based X-energy, which is planning to build test reactors in Eastern Washington. The Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower makes its pick for next-gen nuclear power plant in Wyoming

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Department of Energy with an initial funding round totaling $160 million. The other project is planned by Maryland-based X-energy, with Washington state’s Hanford nuclear reservation selected as the preferred location. The Department of Energy plans to invest a total of $3.2 TerraPower Graphic).

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

GeekWire

This month, the company expects to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an application for the certification of its Natrium reactor , which it developed with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Department of Energy. It can provide a carbon-free energy source 24/7, complementing the intermittent power coming from wind and solar.

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Smaller, cheaper, safer: The next generation of nuclear power, explained

Vox

Advanced nuclear reactors, especially smaller designs, could help solve many of the persistent problems with nuclear energy. It’s a first-of-a-kind nuclear power generator, cooled with liquid metal and producing 100 kilowatts of energy. But the world is hungrier than ever for energy. Micro” and “tiny,” of course, are relative.

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ZeroAvia and Alaska Airlines unveil turboprop that could become largest green aircraft to take flight

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures is ZeroAvia’s largest shareholder, Miftakhov said. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) “Aviation is one of those really hard [clean energy] problems where we still have a long way to go. The startup’s main operations are in California and the United Kingdom.

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