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May 11, 2026

Quantinuum files IPO registration as NVIDIA's AI factory model expands to Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Taiwan; US grid data confirms data center load is outpacing the clean energy transition.

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  1. Rising

    Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming a national policy instrument. Saudi Arabia (HUMAIN/PIF), Germany (10,000-GPU industrial AI cloud), and Taiwan (Foxconn supercomputer) all announced Blackwell-based AI factory deployments in the same news cycle, cementing NVIDIA's AI factory blueprint as a repeating procurement template for governments seeking digital self-sufficiency.

  2. Blocker

    Grid transition is lagging data center demand growth. Virginia commercial electricity sales rose approximately 30 million MWh between 2019 and 2025 -- the fastest commercial growth of any state -- while US coal retirement pace in 2025 was the lowest since 2010, with 4.8 GW of planned retirements deferred. Clean supply is not keeping pace with accelerating load.

  3. Rising

    Quantum capital markets are maturing. Quantinuum filed an IPO registration statement (Honeywell-backed), and IonQ's acquisition of SkyWater Technology cleared stockholder approval, combining a leading trapped-ion compute platform with a domestic semiconductor foundry. Both moves push quantum hardware into public-market accountability.

Quantum

  • P1 Quantinuum Files IPO Registration Statement

    Honeywell's quantum subsidiary is moving toward a standalone public listing -- the first major trapped-ion operator to file IPO paperwork.

    The read: A public listing imposes quarterly reporting discipline on a sector that has operated largely on private capital timelines. The S-1/F-1 disclosures will be the first opportunity for external analysts to benchmark revenue, qubit fidelity metrics, and customer concentration against the company's valuation.

  • P1 IonQ + SkyWater Merger Cleared by Stockholders

    IonQ's acquisition of SkyWater Technology is past a key milestone, creating a vertically integrated company spanning trapped-ion systems and US semiconductor fabrication.

    The read: Domestic fab ownership gives IonQ control over trap chip manufacturing and potential supply chain advantages for defense and government contracts. Integration complexity and capital requirements at a foundry scale will be the primary operational risks to watch post-close.

  • P2 GKP Bosonic Code Error Correction Via Beamsplitter Gates

    A new arXiv preprint demonstrates error correction of entangled Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states generated by beamsplitter interactions, a requirement for photonic fault-tolerant architectures.

    The read: GKP compatibility with beamsplitter-native gates removes a key architectural objection to photonic quantum computing. Experimental groups working on photonic platforms now have a clearer error correction target.

Chips

  • P2 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Enters Enterprise Server Platforms

    NVIDIA is routing Blackwell silicon into a broader set of enterprise server form factors, extending accelerated compute beyond hyperscaler-grade DGX systems.

    The read: This expands the addressable market for Blackwell at the departmental IT level. Practical deployment rate will depend on software stack readiness, ISV certification, and procurement cycles at enterprise buyers -- each of which runs 12-24 months behind hardware availability.

  • P2 Chiplet Security: Distributed Trust With Centralized Authority

    Semiconductor Engineering outlines a security model where each chiplet independently proves identity and communicates securely, without making any single chiplet a structural weak link.

    The read: As AI accelerators shift to chiplet architectures, supply chain trust becomes a systemic concern before performance. This security model will matter to government and defense procurement timelines before commercial hyperscaler deployments reach the same level of scrutiny.

  • P2 3D-IC Power Integrity Is the Hard Constraint for AI-Scale Packaging

    Semiconductor Engineering identifies power delivery complexity as the primary bottleneck in 3D-IC and 2.5D designs used in AI accelerators, requiring new EDA and packaging approaches.

    The read: Power integrity failures at the package level can negate chip-level performance gains. EDA vendors and advanced packaging houses that solve this constraint early hold real competitive leverage with AI accelerator customers. A companion piece on "3.5D" hybrid integration (combining 2.5D interposers with 3D stacks) suggests the industry is actively exploring the design space.

Power

  • P1 Virginia Data Center Load: +~30M MWh in Six Years

    Virginia's commercial electricity sales growth from 2019 to 2025 is the largest of any US state (on a scale-adjusted basis relative to Texas), directly attributable to data center concentration.

    The read: This is among the most concrete publicly sourced data points on regional grid stress from AI infrastructure to date. The Virginia precedent will be cited in permitting and interconnection proceedings in other data center corridors -- Northern Virginia, Iowa, Georgia, and Texas being the next candidates.

  • P2 US Coal Retirements in 2025: Slowest Pace Since 2010

    Only 2.6 GW of coal capacity retired in the US in 2025 -- the lowest since 2010 -- as 4.8 GW of planned retirements were deferred and 1.1 GW of cancellations were confirmed.

    The read: Slower coal retirements directly extend carbon intensity on grids simultaneously absorbing new AI data center load. Hyperscaler sustainability commitments will face growing scrutiny in the context of these EIA figures.

  • P2 US SMR Pipeline Under Development as Data Center Load Response

    EIA catalogues the US small modular reactor development pipeline, noting that high capital costs and lengthy licensing have historically constrained new nuclear builds.

    The read: SMR timelines remain measured in years to decades, not months. The signal here is that regulators and energy analysts are formally connecting SMR development to data center load growth -- which sets the terms for future interconnection agreements, state regulatory approvals, and federal permitting reform debates.

AI Compute

  • P1 Saudi Arabia / HUMAIN + NVIDIA AI Factory Partnerships

    HUMAIN (a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund) and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to build AI factories in Saudi Arabia spanning cloud, enterprise, digital twin, and robotics use cases.

    The read: PIF backing provides sovereign capital insulation from commercial ROI timelines -- a structurally different risk profile from private hyperscaler investment. This deal follows the pattern established by UAE's G42 partnership. Watch for interconnection with Aramco's industrial digitalization programs as the next concrete signal.

  • P1 NVIDIA Germany Industrial AI Cloud: 10,000 GPUs

    NVIDIA is constructing a Germany-based AI factory for European manufacturers featuring 10,000 GPUs combining DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers.

    The read: 10,000 GPUs at industrial workload utilization patterns (intermittent burst vs. continuous training) is a materially different infrastructure challenge than hyperscaler data centers. Cooling, power contracting, and burst interconnect topology will be the operational variables to watch for cost and utilization outcomes.

  • P1 Foxconn + Taiwan Government + NVIDIA AI Factory Supercomputer

    Foxconn and NVIDIA are partnering with the Taiwan government to build an AI factory supercomputer based on Blackwell infrastructure, targeting researchers, startups, and industrial users.

    The read: Foxconn's manufacturing expertise, combined with NVIDIA silicon and sovereign government backing, creates a domestic AI supply chain model that other governments will replicate. It also deepens NVIDIA's strategic alignment with TSMC's home market ahead of any future export control or supply chain disruption scenarios.

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Quantum

60 quantum research items collected on 2026-05-11; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.

All collected Quantum items (52)

Hardware and Error Correction

  • Unlocking vacuum entanglement

    The structure of entanglement in the ground state of the harmonic chain is studied. A class of two-mode squeezed states, useful for this purpose, is identified. The entanglement of the local modes at the ends of the chain, after tracing out the centre, rapidly falls to zero as the length of the chain increases. However, if the central modes are measured, and the result commu...

  • Error Correction of Beamsplitter-Generated Entangled GKP States

    To be useful, quantum computers will be required to successfully correct errors occurring at the hardware level. Bosonic codes provide a hardware-efficient option for error correction, but fault-tolerance further requires that the available gate interactions be compatible with the code. A promising bosonic code is the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code, for which a linear...

  • Price and Payoff: Non-Determinism in Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation

    A promising approach to achieving scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation is the use of quantum error correction (QEC) codes augmented with magic states i.e. resource states produced via distillation, cultivation, or R_z synthesis and teleported into the circuit as needed. Because magic-state production dominates the space-time volume of fault-tolerant programs, system...

  • Carrier Revival in Long Trapped-Ion Chains

    For a single trapped ion, the excitation spectrum of a narrow optical transition consists of a Doppler- and recoil-free carrier accompanied by motional sidebands, which are equally spaced by the trap secular frequency and lie under a Doppler-broadened envelope that is shifted by the photon recoil. Outside the Lamb-Dicke regime, the large photon recoil distributes the line st...

  • Checkerboard Bose Hubbard Ladders using Transmon Arrays

    Adding a sublattice bias to the two dimensional Bose Hubbard model greatly enriches the available physics, and introduces knobs which can be used to control and interrogate the quantum state. We describe the physics of this checkerboard Bose Hubbard model and how it can be explored using transmon arrays. We show that the sublattice bias brings the commensurate superfluid pha...

  • Systematic frequency-collision analysis of the cross-resonance gate outside the straddling regime

    Frequency crowding remains a major obstacle to scaling fixed-frequency transmon processors. Among the widely used all-microwave two-qubit gates, the cross-resonance (CR) gate is particularly sensitive to qubit-frequency spread because the conventional straddling regime condition constrains assignable qubit frequencies tightly and makes the system susceptible to frequency col...

  • Tamed Feynman-Kac diffusion processes: Killing-branching intertwine

    Relaxation to equilibrium of a drifted Brownian motion is quantified by a probability density function, whose main (multiplicative) entry is an inferred Feynman-Kac kernel of the Schrödinger semigroup operator. Although seemingly devoid of a natural probabilistic significance (except for its explicit path integral definition), the pertinent kernel relaxes to equilibrium as w...

  • Limits of Stable Near-Field Probing in Nanophotonic Traps

    Near-fields around nanophotonic structures and waveguides can be used to optically interface particles ranging from atoms and molecules to microscopic biological and synthetic particles. Due to the strong, non-linear dependence of the near-field coupling strength on the particles' position, a change of the spread of the particles' position will change their mean coupling str...

Control and Quantum-AI Integration

  • Hybrid Quantum-Classical Logistic Regression for Calibrated Classification of Pulsar Candidates

    Reliable pulsar candidate ranking requires probability estimates that are not only discriminative but also well calibrated. We evaluate hybrid quantum-calssical logistic regression on the imbalanced HTRU-2 dataset using three quantum feature encodings: angle encoding, amplitude encoding, and data re-uploading. The models are trained using analytic gradients and compared with...

  • Quantum jump unravelings for non-Markovian open system dynamics: a review

    Stochastic unravelings provide a useful way to represent open quantum system dynamics in terms of pure state realizations, and have been widely studied both from a fundamental and from a computational point of view. They were initially formulated for Markovian dynamics described by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master equation. However, due to recent technologica...

  • Neural network quantum states in the grand canonical ensemble

    Variational Monte Carlo calculations have recently reached state-of-the-art accuracy in the approximation of ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. Making use of flexible neural quantum states and automatic differentiation has bypassed traditional computational obstacles such as reliance on basis sets. In this paper, we propose a neural quantum state architect...

  • Compositional Quantum Heuristics for Max-Clique Detection

    Quantum machine learning holds the promise of combining the success of classical machine learning methods with the power of quantum computing, however one of the largest obstacles facing the field is the problem of barren plateaus. Parameterised quantum circuits offer a flexible framework for developing quantum machine learning models, but their practicality is constrained b...

  • Topological Characterization of Discrete-Time Classical Stochastic Processes: Dual Role of Point-Gap Topology

    We present topological characterization of classical stochastic processes described by discrete-time Markov chains on lattices. We point out that point-gap topology of stochastic matrices entails two distinct physical consequences that hinge on the choice of the reference point. The point-gap topology around a generic reference point is related to the direction of transport,...

  • Hardware-Free Polarization Stabilization for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution via Correlated Twirling

    Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD) provides unconditional security against detector vulnerabilities, but its practical deployment is severely hindered by asymmetric channel turbulence. Fluctuations in optical fibers induce arbitrary polarization drift, degrading Hong-Ou-Mandel interference and forcing extensive calibration downtime. In this wor...

  • What is Quantum Machine Learning (QML)?

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Commercial and Industry Context

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  • Advances in quantum learning theory with bosonic systems

    This paper reviews recent advances in quantum learning theory for continuous-variable (CV) systems. Quantum learning theory investigates how to extract classical information from quantum systems as efficiently as possible. CV systems are ubiquitous in nature and in quantum technologies, as they describe bosonic and quantum-optical systems. While quantum learning theory for f...

  • Covert Signaling for Communication and Sensing over the Bosonic Channels

    Preventing signal detection in communication and active sensing requires careful control of transmission power. In fact, the square-root laws (SRL) for covert classical and quantum communication and sensing prescribe that the average output power per channel use scales as 1/√n for n channel uses. Two strategies for achieving this are diffuse and sparse signaling. T...

  • An Exactly Solvable Absorbing Quantum Walk

    We introduce and solve from first principles a continuous-time quantum walk with absorption generated by a Lindblad boundary sink of arbitrary strength. Tracing out the sink maps the problem onto a non-Hermitian tight-binding Hamiltonian with a rank-one imaginary defect on the semi infinite line. We obtain closed-form expressions for the exact propagator and first-passage st...

  • The two-flavor Schwinger model at 50: Solving Coleman's puzzles

    In his 1976 paper "More about the massive Schwinger model", Coleman introduced 1+1-dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics coupled to two charged massive fermions. By applying Abelian bosonization, he elucidated much of the physics of this two-flavor Schwinger model, but he listed three puzzles at the end of his paper. We present new analytical and numerical calculations to so...

  • Analytical Solution to the Kronig-Penney Model with Harmonic Oscillator Wells: Insights to Tight-Binding

    The celebrated Kronig-Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well potentials, and solve the model analytically. We derive the energy dispersion and wave functions for this model. This configuration has some im...

  • Generalized master equation for driven quantum oscillators: microscopic origin of nonlinear dissipation and asymmetric resonances

    Driven nonlinear quantum oscillators are a central platform for quantum technologies, yet their dissipative dynamics are typically described using Lindblad or Caldeira-Leggett master equations derived under assumptions that exclude nonlinearities and driving. Here, we derive a generalized Caldeira-Leggett master equation for driven nonlinear oscillators by retaining the full...

  • Reducibility of native weighted graphs on Rydberg Arrays

    We investigate the classical reducibility of random unit-disk graph (UDG) instances of the maximum independent set (MIS) and maximum weighted independent set (MWIS) problems, which can be natively realised in Rydberg atom quantum processors. Using state-of-the-art kernelisation techniques, we systematically probe how far classical preprocessing can simplify such native optim...

  • Phonon-assisted charge-cycling of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

    The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is a leading platform for room-temperature quantum sensing. Improvements in sensitivity require precise control of the NV charge state. Transitions from the neutral NV^0 charge state to the negative NV^- charge state can occur during excitation with photon energies below the ZPL transition of NV^0. These sub-resonant charge t...

  • Universal Symmetry-Breaking Dynamics at Continuous Phase Transitions: Evidence for a New Dynamical Critical Exponent

    Uncovering and understanding universal dynamics in matter far from equilibrium remains a key challenge. In this work, we identify a so far unrecognized form of universal behavior that emerges after a sudden symmetry-breaking quench at continuous phase transitions. Our key observation is that the order-parameter fluctuations in Ising models exhibit a compelling temporal colla...

  • An Autonomous Topological Pump

    Robust quantization of particle transport, as in a Thouless pump, is a hallmark of topological quantum systems with externally controlled system parameters. Here we instead propose and analyze a Thouless pump, for fermions in a one-dimensional lattice, in which external control is not needed, because an additional dynamical degree of freedom allows the pump to work autonomou...

  • Bridging Krylov Complexity and Universal Analog Quantum Simulator

    Quantum simulation of complex many-body systems beyond classical computational capabilities provides a promising route toward understanding novel quantum phases and their transitions. In particular, analog quantum simulators with global control fields have attracted considerable attention due to their potential to simulate arbitrary Hamiltonians and perform quantum computing...

  • A Unified Local Light-shifts Encoding For Solving Optimization Problems on a Rydberg Annealer

    Combinatorial optimization problems play a central role in computer science with many real world applications. A number of relevant problems remain computationally difficult to solve as they lie in the NP-hard complexity class. We present a unified framework for solving such optimization problems represented in the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) formalism...

  • Entanglement-informed distributed wavefunction approach to scalable quantum many-body systems

    We show that the entanglement structure of quantum many-body states defines a natural and optimal distributed representation for their simulation. An arbitrary entanglement cut induces a bipartite decomposition of the wavefunction, mapping its distribution onto that of the entanglement spectrum. In this representation the Hamiltonian application, the core of Krylov-subspace...

  • Typical Mixing and Rare-State Bottlenecks in Open Quantum Systems

    Mixing in open quantum systems is often summarized by a single worst-case time, even though that benchmark can be set by exponentially rare initial states. We show that for broad unstructured ensembles the nonlinear trace-distance relaxation curve itself concentrates around a deterministic mean. For Haar-random pure states this yields fixed-time concentration of the instanta...

  • svPITE: A Python package for the state-vector-based probabilistic imaginary-time evolution algorithm

    We present a Python package for ground-state preparation based on the probabilistic imaginary-time evolution algorithm, with particular focus on its state-vector-based implementation. A standard shot-based simulation is also supported, and results can be benchmarked against exact diagonalisation via a dedicated wrapper. The package enables efficient tuning of initial paramet...

  • Loop Composition in Quantum Algorithms

    The quantum circuit model essentially treats every quantum algorithm as a straight-line program. While this view is universal, recent work has shown that it is inconvenient for using different-length quantum subroutines in superposition. Using the quantum walk formalism of quantum algorithms, it is possible to model such branching behaviour, and get better composition in thi...

  • Hybrid Qubit-Qutrit Quantum Battery: Nonclassicality and Energy Performance

    We propose and analyze a hybrid qubit-qutrit quantum battery (QB) based on a mixed spin-1/2 and spin-1 system interacting via an anisotropic Heisenberg exchange coupling in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field. The nonclassical properties of the system are characterized using the l1-norm of coherence and negativity, which quantify quantum coherence and entanglement,...

  • On the single-Hessian Gaussian wavepacket dynamics

    Single-Hessian Gaussian wavepacket dynamics (GWD) significantly reduces the computational burden of Heller's local harmonic GWD, while maintaining comparable accuracy in approximating vibronic spectra. Here, we provide a new, symplectic derivation of the equations of motion of single-Hessian GWD and show that, unlike the local harmonic version, this method conserves the non-...

  • Computational and physical complexity of synthesizing random multi-qudit quantum states and unitary operators

    We analyze the complexity of synthesizing random states and unitary operators in a multi-qudit system in two paradigms. In one case, we consider the situation in which we manipulate the system by applying a sequence of one- and two-qudit quantum gates that constitute the elementary, and universal, gate set. The minimum number of gates required to perform the desired operatio...

  • Breaking mechanical dark mode via the Coulomb interaction

    We propose a method to break the dark mode of two degenerate mechanical resonators (MRs) in optomechanical systems via the Coulomb interaction. Two degenerate MRs can be cooled to their ground-state simultaneously beyond the resolved sideband regime using the Coulomb interaction and an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). We show that strong and robust mechanical squeezing be...

  • Kochen-Specker nonlocal hidden variables must include time-ordering to allow for measurement independence of several agents

    We consider an ontology, in which contextual nonlocal hidden variables are stored as pre-existing possibilities in a repository outside space-time; and in which the context can be chosen ``freely'' (measurement independence) by each agent, both in spacelike and timelike configurations. We show that, in Bell-type experiments involving several agents, for this ontology to be c...

  • Symplectic H2 Model Reduction for High-Dimensional Linear Quantum Systems

    The H_2 model reduction problem for high-dimensional linear quantum systems is studied under the constraint of physical realizability (PR). This constraint requires preservation of the canonical commutation relations and the quantum input-output structure, and therefore prevents the direct use of standard projection methods. A symplectic Petrov-Galerkin framework...

  • Box model of quantum annealing

    A particle-in-a-box model of continuous space quantum annealing is proposed and studied numerically by solving the Schrödinger wave equation directly. Three types of energy landscapes with multiple local minima are considered, namely a sinusoidal wave modulated by a concave, a convex, or a flat envelope. Both static (energy spectrum) and dynamical (residual energy) behaviors...

  • Nonselective generalized measurements as a resource for quantum thermal machines in a double quantum dot

    We investigated quantum thermal machines powered by sequential nonselective generalized measurements, taking a double quantum dot with coherent interdot tunneling as a working substance. In this platform, the competition between detuning and tunneling hybridizes the localized states and modifies the energetic response of the cycle, allowing us to analyze measurement-driven t...

  • Decoherence without the state: A causal quantum Darwinist approach

    The consistent histories formalism can be used to describe histories comprised of events across many systems, times, and places, plausibly rich enough to describe our experiences of the classical world; however, many consistent history sets are nonclassical and thus not obviously relevant to our experiences. Meanwhile, the program of environmentally induced decoherence ident...

  • Real-Time Quantum Dynamics on the Fuzzy Sphere: Chaos and Entanglement

    We study the real time quantum dynamics of a matrix model consisting two bosonic fields on the fuzzy sphere using the Gaussian state approximation. Starting from the Hamiltonian formulation and using Wick's theorem, we derive a closed set of coupled nonlinear differential equations governing the time evolution of the one- and two-point correlation functions. Thermal equation...

  • Quantitative propagation of chaos for Lindblad dynamics

    We consider an open quantum system governed N-body Lindblad equation and study mean-field limits in this setting. We prove that the N-particle dynamics converges, in the sense of quantum relative entropy, to the tensorized solution of the limiting nonlinear equation. More precisely, we establish explicit bounds of order 1/N on the relative entropy between the N-parti...

  • Many-body theory predictions of positron binding energies in five-membered heterocycles involving N, O, S and NH substituents

    Positron binding energies and Dyson orbitals for five-membered heterocycles with N, O, S and NH substituents are predicted \emph{ab initio} via many-body theory. The positron-molecule correlation potential (self energy) is calculated via solution of Bethe-Salpeter equations that describe the positron-induced polarization of the target and screening of the electron-positron C...

  • A collider as a quantum computer

    Scattering processes in high-energy physics are inherently quantum mechanical, yet are typically analyzed at the level of final states, where entanglement appears as a property of the outcome rather than a consequence of the underlying dynamics. We reformulate scattering at the level of the process itself by representing helicity transition matrices as quantum circuits. Once...

  • The Cost of Waiting on Quantum Computing May Be Higher Than You Think, Researchers Tell Business Leaders

  • Quantum Security Deadlines are Here – What Happens Next?

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Chips

42 chip stack items collected on 2026-05-11; memory, packaging, compute, and foundry signals routed.

All collected Chips items (35)

Compute Accelerators

Memory and Advanced Packaging

Foundry, Tools, and Capex

  • Chip Industry Week In Review

    New Taiwan adv. packaging site; M&A activity; GF's CPO solution; Apple looks beyond TSMC; EU chip companies map; strong earnings; MIT's new lidar chip; gallium production; AI inferencing at sea; quantum HW funding; PCIe 7 tool; home data centers; AI security warnings; temperature impact on EVs.

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Power

20 power layer items collected on 2026-05-11; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.

All collected Power items (17)

Data Center Power Demand

  • Commercial electricity sales have soared in Virginia, driven by data centers

    Commercial electricity sales in Virginia increased by nearly 30.0 million megawatthours (MWh) between 2019 and 2025, much faster growth than in any other state except Texas, a much larger state, according to our Annual Electric Power Industry Report. The growth in sales of electricity in Virginia is largely driven by a concentration of data centers, as well as electric vehic...

  • Small modular reactors and microreactors under development in the United States

    Electric utilities in the United States currently operate about 98 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear generating capacity, but very little nuclear capacity has been built in the last few decades. High capital costs and lengthy licensing and approval processes have limited the expansion of nuclear power. However, several companies are developing new small modular reactor (SMR) designs...

  • U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retired in 2025 was the least in 15 years

    During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to a future year, and the operators of two coal plants (1.1 GW) cancelled plans to reti...

  • Rooftop solar photovoltaic systems account for 20% of Puerto Rico's capacity mix

    Rooftop solar generating capacity in Puerto Rico totaled 1,456 megawatts (MW) at the end of 2025, 20% of the overall capacity mix. Rooftop solar capacity has increased faster than other sources over the past decade. Between 2016 and 2025 rooftop solar installations accounted for 81% of the new generating capacity in Puerto Rico, according to data from our Electric Power Mont...

Grid and Generation

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