Alva

American

[al-vuh, ahl-vah] / ˈæl və, ˈɑl vɑ /

noun

Duke of. Duke of Alba.
a first name.

Alva British

/ ˈalβa, ˈælvə /

noun

Duke of, title of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo. 1508–82, Spanish general and statesman who suppressed the Protestant revolt in the Netherlands (1567–72) and conquered Portugal (1580)

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Alva Energy, which recently had a $33 million fundraising round, said it could add 10 gigawatts to the U.S. grid by boosting output at existing nuclear plants.

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Project developer Alva Energy said it could add 10 gigawatts of nuclear energy to the U.S. power grid—the equivalent of nine or 10 large reactors—in the near term by boosting output at dozens of existing nuclear plants.

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The startup named for Thomas Alva Edison has support from former Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, a general partner at the venture firm Playground Global, which led Alva’s recent $33 million fundraising round.

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Gelsinger, who has joined Alva’s board, said the company could meet the power needs of new artificial-intelligence data centers without facing the cost or timeline constraints of new projects.

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