{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_3yg24ezxzcnuipwiu6da","title":"Modernizing for more megawatts: Columbia’s EPU journey","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/modernizing-for-more-megawatts-columbias-epu-journey-3yg24ezxzc","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_3yg24ezxzcnuipwiu6da","seq":1447010,"kind":"article","title":"Modernizing for more megawatts: Columbia’s EPU journey","url":"https://www.ans.org/news/2026-10-02/article-8410/modernizing-for-more-megawatts-columbias-epu-journey","summary":"Columbia Generating Station is the third-largest power-generating resource in Washington state and the region’s only operating nuclear plant. It has long served the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA’s) public power customers as a 24/7, not-for-profit baseload complement to hydropower, providing operational flexibility during low-water months and supporting grid stability as renewables scale up and contribute their power on a variable basis. Under BPA’s net billing…","published":"2026-10-02T22:10:25Z","seen":"2026-10-02T23:15:24Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-ans-org-a5045f","name":"ans.org","domain":"ans.org","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q465883","name":"American Nuclear Society","type":"other","country":"US","designations":["organization"]}},"via":"kite-ans-org-a5045f","topics":["energy","nuclear-power","news"],"authors":["Guest Contributor"],"entities":[{"id":"Q38453","name":"Columbia","type":"place"}],"story":"st_3yg24ezxzcnuipwiu6da","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.4300000071525574,"category2":"science-technology","sentiment":"positive","tone":0.4699999988079071,"political":0.10999999940395355}]}