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Electricity Trading: Europe takes a step closer to full market integration
It was announced on 6 June this year that a coupled electricity market would be created between France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany by 1 January 2009.
Metering & Billing: Advanced metering - the time is now
The global utility industry has recently been building a business case for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
Feedwater Quality: It’s either high water quality or bust!
The modern power station boiler is the result of two centuries of development in materials and fabrication techniques.
Operations & Maintenance: A core route to achieving optimized plant maintenance
It is widely acknowledged that effective maintenance strategies and practices impact directly on power plant efficiency and productivity, thereby contributing to bottom-line profitability.
Boiler Control: Steaming ahead with optimizing power plant boiler startup
As plant engineers focus on the effects of startup procedures and load cycles as a way of improving power plant efficiency, ABB discusses how its BoilerMax control software package can optimize steam generators’ startup strategy.
Cogeneration: Meeting the cogeneration needs of the UK’s first bioethanol plant
As the expansion of the biotechnology market continues alongside an increased confidence in the petrochemical industry, so the need to secure production of additional steam and power within a petrochemical complex has become increasingly important.
Heat Exchange Technology: Supercritical power plants offer new lease of life for header-type heaters
In Germany, high-efficiency coal fired power plants are traditionally fitted with header-type heaters.
Smart Meters: Can smart meters take top billing in a changing climate?
In recent years sustainable, environmentally-friendly energy production, supply and usage have rapidly assumed top priority for governments and many others around the globe.
Transmission & Distribution: KEPCO’s ongoing expansion aided by GIS technology
Hansung Electric Company, the first electric power company in Korea, was formed in 1898, shortly after Emperor Gojong sent a special envoy to the Edison General Electric Company in the United States to arrange for the installation of three 7 kW steam power generators in the Kyongbok Palace.
Condition Monitoring: Predicting hydro machinery health
Alstom Hydro Power is currently constructing two new hydropower plants in China.
Hot Fractured Rock Energy: Hot rocking the world from a one horse town
As far as neighbourhoods go, Innamincka is quiet. The tiny settlement, which consists of a general store and a pub, services the vast Innamincka cattle station and seasonal tourists who visit for the camping and fishing in the Cooper Creek.
IT Focus: Round-the-clock monitoring of innovative marine energy projects
In the coming decades renewable energy’s share of power generation in the UK will rise rapidly, increasing the need for a greater portfolio of renewable energy technologies.
Engineering Skills Shortage: London calling for power engineers
The energy industry is currently facing many imminent challenges, not least the issues surrounding climate change and energy security, but just as pressing is an industry-wide need for supporting skills.
Wind Project Consultancy: Navigating the stormy waters of offshore wind development
Offshore wind farm developments offer large scale deployment of high capacity factor wind power plants.
POWER-GEN Europe 2007: A triple whammy
This year saw two new conferences run in parallel with the traditional POWER-GEN Europe conference, highlighting the increasingly important roles that renewable energy and the transmission system now play in the mainstream energy business.
GLOBAL ELECTRICITY PRICING: Ups and downs of global electricity prices
This year’s benchmark report looks at the trends in the price of electricity across 14 countries.
‘Incredible India’: a wealth of opportunities
During a recent trip to India, I was able to see at first hand the level of investment that the country is making in its infrastructure, and it is positively breathtaking.
Is Europe’s door really open to full market liberalization?
After more than decade of policy making, legislative decisions and legal wrangling, every European energy consumer is, at least in theory, now free to choose which supplier they buy their electricity and gas from.
INTERNATIONAL
The world’s largest Independent Water and Power Project (IWPP), the Marifiq project in Saudi Arabia, has reached financial close.
EUROPE
The European Parliament has given its support to the break-up of energy companies, putting it in direct opposition to France and Germany over planned legislation to increase competition in the region’s electricity and natural gas markets.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Thailand’s largest utility will invest $6bn on building the country’s first nuclear power plant, which is expected to start operation in 2020.
AMERICAS
American Electric Power (AEP), the largest coal-fired generator in the United States, has given its support to legislation that would cap emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the USA at 1990 levels by 2030.
COMPANIES
The French government is to give Gaz de France (GDF) up to six months to study strategic options as a way out of the stalemate in the utility’s planned merger with Suez, La Tribune has reported, citing unnamed sources.
Genset Roundup
Finning Power Systems is increasing the amount of green electricity produced by Thames Long Reach sewage plant from 2.3 MW to 3.3 MW with the installation of a third CHP biogas generator.
Equipment Roundup
An idea sketched on the back of a beer mat in a Dublin pub has become a world-beating product and won the Queen’s Award for Innovation 2007 - one of Britain’s highest industrial honours, described by one recipient as ‘a corporate knighthood’.
Thailand focuses on diversification to cut dependence on fossil fuels
The electricity sector in Thailand is dominated by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), the main generation and transmission company responsible for supplying the whole country.
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