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Power Engineering

U.S. energy-industry trade press (non-partisan, pro-industry orientation)

Owned byOwned by EndeavorB2B (formerly Endeavor Business Media), a Nashville-based private B2B publisher. Endeavor acquired Power Engineering in 2019 as part of about 20 former PennWell brands that it bought from Clarion Events and Informa. Clarion had acquired PennWell in 2018. Some directories and older profiles still list Clarion as publisher.
FundingMainly advertising and sponsorships from power-sector equipment and service vendors. It also earns money from events and conferences (such as POWERGEN) and from lead generation and marketing services. Its content is free to read online. Its parent is privately held, with investors reported to include Resolute Capital Partners and Northcreek Mezzanine.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Power Engineering was founded in 1896 and is one of the older U.S. trade publications for the power industry. For many years it was published from Tulsa, Oklahoma, by PennWell Corporation, which also ran the POWERGEN conferences. In 2018 the British events company Clarion Events, owned by Blackstone, acquired PennWell. In November 2019, Endeavor Business Media, founded in 2017 by Chris Ferrell, bought about 20 former PennWell brands, including Power Engineering. The parent company rebranded as EndeavorB2B in 2025. The magazine covers gas, coal, nuclear, renewables, storage, grid and data-center power demand, with news, project profiles and technical articles. As is typical of trade press, it speaks to the industry's commercial and engineering concerns and generally treats all generation types as business and engineering topics. I did not find notable editorial controversies. Its coverage of the second Trump administration mainly reports on federal policy, regulation and permitting changes and their effects on utilities and developers. I did not review its recent output closely enough to find a consistent pro- or anti-administration slant, so 'mostly neutral' is a judgment from its trade-press format.

Sources

  1. Power Engineering (magazine) – Wikipedia
  2. EndeavorB2B – Wikipedia
  3. About Power Engineering
  4. Endeavor Business Media – PitchBook profile
  5. Endeavor acquires trade publications company – Nashville Post

Profile compiled 2026-10-21; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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