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How to Avoid Common Genset Room Design Mistakes

September 16, 2019 admin 0 Comments Business, Gas, International, news, O&M, Plant Design, power generating set, power genset, room design, Safety, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:51:54 +0000

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Reliable power is essential for all facilities, but it is even more critical for places like hospitals, data centers, and military bases. Therefore, many decision-makers are purchasing power generator sets (gensets) to supply their facilities during emergencies. It is crucial to consider where the genset will be positioned and how it will be operated. If […]

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The X Factor in the Power Market’s New Math

September 3, 2019 admin Business, customer service, experience data, experience management, International, news, O&M, operations data, sap, Technology, workforce, x factor new math, xm

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:44 +0000

How power companies are using experience management, or XM, to reshape customer relationships and reveal new revenue opportunities Here was a company with one of the largest investor-owned electric systems in the U.S.—the owner of close to a dozen electricity distribution entities—and a strong desire to pursue new opportunities outside its traditional regulated business. Those […]

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How to Ensure Plant Reliability and Regulatory Compliance

September 3, 2019 admin abm, Business, connected plant, contract, iiot, iiot power, Instrumentation & Controls, Legal & Regulatory, nerc, news, north american electric reliability corp., O&M, plant reliability and regulatory compliance, Safety, Technology, testing, workforce

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:08 +0000

Lock in safe, reliable operations by opening the door to third-party expertise There’s still a big takeaway from a 2008 Florida blackout, and it’s not the size of the fine that followed. Although it was the largest penalty levied under the new reliability standards at that time, here’s the bigger elephant in the room: Florida […]

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Heavy Hauling: Moving 300-Ton Gas Engines from Europe to Michigan

September 2, 2019 admin Business, Gas, martin bencher group, natural gas, news, O&M, perkins stc, umerc, upper peninsula, wartsila

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Two new power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) came online earlier this year, supplying power for customers of Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. (UMERC), a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group. WEC

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Shock Pulse Generators Help Clean Supercritical Power Plant Boilers

September 2, 2019 admin boilers, Coal, explosion power gmbh, gheco-one, Instrumentation & Controls, news, O&M, shock pulse generator, soot blowers, spg, Technology, Thailand

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Economic power plant operation includes keeping maintenance costs under control, and operating the plant efficiently. Boiler surfaces need to be kept as clean as possible to increase heat transfer and decrease

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Hope for the Blue Sky, Plan for the Storm

August 27, 2019 admin Business, clicksoftware, connected plant, iiot, iiot power, news, O&M, preparedness, Safety, Technology, workforce

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:05:52 +0000

Organizations operating within a mission-critical environment must adopt appropriate technology to mitigate potentially life-threatening problems. As we acknowledge National Preparedness Month this September, we need to remember what is important to electric power customers. They expect to be kept safe, to be heard, and to receive realistic estimated restoration times—especially when a power line is […]

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Next-Generation HRSGs Start Fast and Reduce Emissions

August 8, 2019 admin Business, drumplus, Gas, heat recovery steam generator, hrsg, hrsg user's group, International, news, O&M, Plant Design, siemens heat transfer technology, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:11:51 +0000

Today’s heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) are suffering reliability problems, mainly because they’re being operated in the cycling mode instead of the baseload mode for which they were designed. The good news is HRSG suppliers are adapting to the market demands and are designing the next generation of HRSGs to have cycling-friendly—also called fast-start—features. One […]

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Applying IEEE 1584 in Power Generation Facilities

July 31, 2019 admin arc flash, browns ferry, Coal, eaton, Gas, ieee 1584, ieee 1584-2018, maintenance, news, NRC, Nuclear, O&M, operations, Renewables, Safety

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

An arc flash is the explosive energy released when an electrical fault causes an arc. This rapid release of energy causes excessive temperatures in addition to air and metal in the path of the arc expanding

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The Power of a ‘Green’ Decommissioning, Remediation, and Redevelopment Plan

July 31, 2019 admin Coal, decommissioning, Environmental, Gas, green, news, Nuclear, O&M, redevelopment, remediation, Renewables, schiff hardin llp

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Economic pressures coupled with new and proposed regulations to reduce air emissions and regulate cooling water use and the management and disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) continue to drive the

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SCR Project Upgrades Two Units at Four Corners

July 31, 2019 admin aecom, aps, Business, Coal, Environmental, four corners, Instrumentation & Controls, news, O&M, Plant Design, retrofit, riley power, scr, sundt construction, Technology, top plant

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The numbers tell the story of how the addition of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology helped an iconic New Mexico coal-fired plant reduce its emissions, keeping the plant in operation and continuing

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