Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:18:32 +0000
Atlanta-based energy giant Southern Co. has rapidly evolved to keep in step with the evolution of power. As part of its corporate growth, the company has notably pioneered technologies that have reshaped
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:10:29 +0000
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a wholesale power supply cooperative with 45 members in four states—Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming—announced its intentions to retire the Rifle Station, an 85-MW combined cycle facility in Rifle, Colorado. The announcement was made on April 5 in conjunction with a filing with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:26:26 +0000
Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will allow research organization GTI and its partners to proceed to the next phase of a project exploring how stored hydrogen can be used for load-following to improve the capacity factor of a natural gas combined cycle power plant. The project is exploring a system that could […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:16:26 +0000
The post AES Commits to Build 2.2-GW CCGT Plant in Vietnam appeared first on POWER Magazine.
AES Corp. on Nov. 8 signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnamese government to build a $1.7 billion gas-fired power plant in Vietnam. The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi made the announcement along with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, who was attending a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the American […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The post Competitive Advantages: Power Plant Wins with Low Fuel Costs, High Efficiency appeared first on POWER Magazine.
The cost of fuel is one of the most important factors affecting power plant profitability, but flexibility and efficiency are also vitally important to success. One impressive new plant in Ohio—the Lordstown
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:35:11 +0000
The first independent combined cycle power project in the emirate of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is taking shape after $1 billion in financing was recently secured from GE Energy Financial Services (EFS) and its partners. The plant, featuring three combined cycle blocks, is expected to have 1.8 GW of generation capacity. The […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Ever since deregulation came to the power industry, combined cycle plant managers have been trying to benchmark their production metrics and cycling costs against those of their competitors. There has always
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:39:54 +0000
When U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), he unintentionally ignited the worldwide deregulation of electricity markets, which in turn began a worldwide technology race between two distinct types of power plants: the newly created, industrial-scale plant that PURPA dubbed “cogeneration” and the traditional, utility-scale power […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:00:55 +0000
Entergy Texas on February 15 began construction of its first new power plant in 40 years. The Montgomery County Power Station (MCPS), located in Willis, will be a 993-MW combined cycle gas turbine plant, adjacent to the existing Lewis Creek Power Plant. Entergy Texas is part of Entergy Corporation, which provides power to about 3 […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:59:35 +0000
The Lackawanna Energy Center in Pennsylvania entered commercial operation Jan. 15, with the $1.5 billion project heralded by its developer, Invenergy, as among the most “technically sophisticated” combined cycle natural gas-fired plants in operation. The 1,485-MW facility, in the borough of Jessup in Lackawanna County, was completed ahead of schedule and features three General Electric […]
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