Megawatt charging is leaving pilot mode. 2025 brings the first public MCS sites and a near-finished standard, while early hubs at ports and along I-5 and I-15 set the pattern for a national freight network by 2027.
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The headline constraint in 2025 is not turbines or permits but high-voltage direct current and subsea cable supply. Here is why the order book is tight and a 2026-2030 playbook to keep offshore wind and interregional lines on schedule.
Record load forecasts, PJM fast tracks, and hyperscaler buildouts turned data centers into the anchor tenants of American power in 2025. See where demand is clustering, how procurement is shifting to hourly certainty, and which playbooks will win in 2026.
Final IRS 45Y and 48E rules in January 2025 made clean power tech-neutral. Developers are already repricing repowers, uprates, restarts, and standalone storage as domestic content and energy community bonuses reset models. Here is how to choose between the production and investment credit, and who benefits first.
Order 881 made hourly, weather-aware ratings the new floor for U.S. transmission in July 2025. Here is what changed in control rooms, where dynamic line ratings go next, and how to capture value first.
In one California summer and two pivotal Commission decisions under Order 2222, virtual power plants shifted from demos to dependable grid products. Here is what changed, which regions move first, and the practical playbook for 2026 to 2028.
Three 2025 milestones moved U.S. nuclear from talk to action: a new SMR design approval, a historic Palisades restart path, and the first advanced reactor EIS. Here is how utilities, data center buyers, and states can turn that momentum into multi-gigawatt orders by 2027.
With Congress repealing the EPA methane fee and EPA moving to unwind emissions reporting, Europe’s import regime has become the practical rulebook for U.S. LNG. The clock is ticking toward 2027, 2028, and 2030, when verified measurement and methane intensity limits will decide who gets to sell into Europe.
After a hard reset in 2025, sodium-ion is scaling fastest in Asia while U.S. projects wrestle with bankability, codes, and tariffs. Here is what matters now, where it can win first, and the steps utilities can take to turn pilots into bankable procurement.
In 2025 the U.S. moved from talking about HALEU to shipping it. New DOE allocations, contract extensions, and private deals are stitching together enrichment, conversion, deconversion, and fabrication on an aggressive 2025-2027 clock.
