The News section surfaces recent news articles mentioning US power plants. Articles are sourced from Google News via the Serper API, then classified by an LLM into categories with entity extraction. Available both as a section on each plant's detail page and as a dedicated news hub at /news.
Coverage
News articles are fetched for plants with 10 MW or greater nameplate capacity. Larger plants (100 MW+) use exact-match search queries for precision; smaller plants use broader queries for recall. Plants below 10 MW are skipped as they rarely have meaningful news coverage. Currently covers ~6,000 plants with ~40,000 articles.
Classification
Each article is classified by an LLM (Gemini 2.0 Flash) into one of five categories, plus subcategories and named entity extraction.
Deals
PPAs, M&A activity, project finance, green bonds, tax equity, and debt financing.
Hazards
Wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, hail, flooding, extreme heat/cold, and ice storms affecting plants.
Regulatory
FERC orders, state PUC decisions, federal policy changes, permitting updates, and rate cases.
Grid
Outages, curtailment events, interconnection queue updates, and capacity additions.
Industry
Earnings reports, partnerships, technology announcements, and corporate news.
Entity extraction identifies companies, agencies, and people mentioned in each article along with their role (buyer, seller, developer, regulator, etc.). These entities power the "Entity Mentioned" filter in the news hub sidebar.
Plant detail section
On each plant's detail page, the News & Articles section shows up to 4 recent articles with category badges, entity pills, source attribution, and publication date. Category filter pills appear when a plant has articles across multiple categories. A "View all articles" link navigates to the news hub filtered to that plant.
News hub
The dedicated news page at /news provides a full-featured news feed with a sidebar containing 9 independent filters.
Category & Subcategory
Filter by classification category. When a category is selected, its subcategories appear inline for further refinement.
Entity Mentioned
Filter by companies, agencies, or people extracted from article text. Searchable list of the most frequently mentioned entities.
Owner / Operator
Filter by the plant's owner or operator (from the ownership dimension, not article text).
Other filters
Fuel type, state, ISO/RTO, date range, plant capacity (MW), and news source. All filters combine with AND logic.
Data sources
Articles are fetched from Google News via the Serper API. Classification uses Gemini 2.0 Flash via OpenRouter. Articles are refreshed monthly; classification results are cached and persist across rebuilds.