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Wärtsilä Says Lead Times for Its Engines Continue to Increase, Given Strong Energy Order Intake
In its interim report release of October 27, 2026, Wärtsilä says that lead times for its engines continue to increase, given strong Energy order intake, and reports an order to supply an onsite power solution for a data center project in the United States.
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The IEA Says It Is Not Clear That Onsite Generation Necessarily Promises Data Centers a Faster Route to Market at Scale, in the Context of a Supply Crunch for Gas Turbines
The IEA's executive summary says reliable onsite gas-fired power for "critical and variable data centre load" requires overbuilding onsite generation relative to demand, and that, with a supply crunch for gas turbines, "it is not clear that onsite generation necessarily promises a faster route to market for data centres at scale."
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Google Cloud Says a Voltage Drop in the Utility's Feed, and the Breakers' Protective Action, Caused a Service Outage in One Zone
Google Cloud's incident report of July 25, 2026 names the root cause of an outage in its europe-west4-a zone as "a 3ms voltage drop in the power feed from the utility provider and subsequent utility breaker protective action."
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An Award to Make Gas-Fired Power Units for a Data Center: Enerflex's Material Change Report of October 13, 2026
Enerflex Ltd. reported on October 13, 2026 that it has been contracted to design, engineer, fabricate and assemble "over one gigawatt" of natural gas-fired power generation units for a large data center development in North America. The report also says what its backlog offers beyond the initial equipment scope.
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A Plant Next Door: New Era Energy & Digital's Power Purchase Agreement for Its Texas Data Center Project
A release by New Era Energy & Digital, dated September 21, 2026, says a subsidiary has entered into a power purchase agreement for the first phase of its data center project in Texas, with the power expected to be available in Q3 of 2027.
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Booked, Shipped and Reserved: Gas Services in Siemens Energy's Analyst Presentation for Q3 FY26
Siemens Energy's analyst presentation of August 5, 2026 lists, under "Gas Services," gigawatts booked and shipped and a backlog of firm customer commitments beside slot reservations, and it shows announced capacity expansions for two size classes of gas turbine.
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Gas Turbines Among the Awards: Baker Hughes' Results for the Second Quarter of 2026
Among the awards in Baker Hughes' results release of July 26, 2026 are gas turbines for power in North America, with data centers named among the uses. The release also gives the orders and the Remaining Performance Obligations of the segment that won them.
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Slots, Orders and a Plan for Output: GE Vernova's Gas Turbine Numbers for the Second Quarter of 2026
GE Vernova's results release of July 22, 2026 says its gas power equipment backlog and slot reservation agreements grew within the quarter, and that it anticipates more by year-end. It also gives figures for annual gas turbine output in the third quarter of 2026, in 2028 and in 2030.
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Record Orders and Longer Equipment Delivery Times: Wärtsilä's Half-Year Report for January to June 2026
Wärtsilä's release of July 21, 2026 says Energy order intake passed its previous all-time high, largely as a result of firm data center-related orders across two projects and of balancing orders. Its chief executive also says equipment delivery times continued to increase.
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Not Connected in Any Way to the Larger Grid: EPA's Clarification on Islanded Power Plants
In a memorandum of July 16, 2026, EPA told its regional administrators that it believes the Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected in any way to the larger electricity grid. The memorandum says it is not a final determination for any particular facility.
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Preliminary Default CONE Values: PJM's Periodic Review of the Cost of New Entry
PJM's slides of July 8, 2026 for its Market Implementation Committee give preliminary default values for the gross cost of new entry, by resource type.
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Not Physically Connected to the Electric Power Grid: Ohio's Siting Board Approves a Gas Plant for an Adjacent Data Center
On June 26, 2026, the Ohio Power Siting Board approved the construction of a natural gas fired plant that will serve an adjacent data center and will not be physically connected to the grid, with battery storage "to accommodate fluctuations in demand and mitigate unplanned outages."
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Not the Result of Any Particular Event: Rising Forced Outage Rates in NERC's 2026 State of Reliability Overview
NERC's 2026 State of Reliability overview, dated June 24, 2026, reports that the weighted equivalent forced outage rate of conventional generation rose in 2025, with coal and combined-cycle units the primary drivers. Owners of some of the units cited equipment destruction and supply chain constraints that prolonged their outages.
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Not Approval of the Service Agreement: The Louisiana Commission's Order on Generation and Transmission for a Single Customer
An order of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, decided on August 20, 2025, approves a settlement on a utility's application to build generation and transmission to serve new load from a data center. The settlement finds the construction of three new generators prudent, subject to customer protection conditions and later prudence reviews, and says the certification is not approval of the utility's service agreement with the customer.
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Difficult to Answer With a Standard Lead Time: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Q&A Summary for Q1 FY2025 on Gas Turbines
In its own summary of the questions and answers at its briefing of August 5, 2025, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said lead time for large-frame gas turbines varies by project, and that many of the projects asked about will begin commercial operation between FY2028 and FY2030. It also gave its plan to increase production capacity.
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Hardly Any New Gas Capacity in 2024, and a Plan for More: EIA on Combined-Cycle Plants Through 2028
Hardly any new natural gas capacity came online in the United States in 2024, a June 2025 note from the U.S. Energy Information Administration says. Developers plan more combined-cycle capacity through 2028, and the note says how much of that plan is already under construction.
