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Combined Cycle Plants: Know Your Limitations and Keep Your Plant Both Online and Operating Efficiently

August 1, 2022 admin combined cycle, condenser, cycling, efficiency, Engineers, Fiction, gas turbine, heat rate, inspection, marmaduke, marnie, maya, Performance, pump, pumps, una nowling

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:14:41 +0000

Steadily increasing demands leading to excessive cycling and starts/stops can cause heat rate loss, poor unit performance, and increased plant outages. See as Marnie and Maya demonstrate that even relatively

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EPA Finalizes ACE Rule, Replaces Clean Power Plan

June 19, 2019 admin ace rule, america's power, bser, Business, Carbon Capture, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, courts, D.C. Circuit, EPA, heat rate, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, nrdc, nreca, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:23:20 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to formally replace the Obama administration’s controversial Clean Power Plan (CPP). Like the CPP, the ACE rule will regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs), and it will be founded firmly on the agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding. However, the ACE rule focuses on the nation’s […]

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EPA Will Issue Final Carbon Rules for Power Plants in June

May 7, 2019 admin ace rule, Business, carbon regulations, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, courts, Environmental, EPA, Gas, ghgs, heat rate, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, OMB, Technology, Trump

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 13:49:09 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to take final action to repeal the Clean Power Plan in June 2019, a federal court filing shows. The agency told the D.C. Circuit—in a May 6 status report—review of the Obama-era rule that sets the first carbon dioxide limits for existing power plants “continues to be a high […]

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What Coal Generators Should Know About the EPA’s Proposed ACE Rule

August 21, 2018 admin ace rule, boilers, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, economizers, efficiency, Environmental, EPA, Gas, general, heat rate, Legal & Regulatory, neural networks, news, nsps, nsr, Obama, sootblowing, Trump, turbine overhauls

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule is proposed to replace the 2015 Clean Power Plan—which the Supreme Court stayed in February 2016 and never went into effect. According to the EPA, the replacement is necessary because the Obama-era Clean Power Plan “exceeded the EPA’s authority.” However, like the Clean Power Plan, […]

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