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Power squeeze: the bubble bursts
The current economic crisis has forced power companies to rethink their investment plans for the near-term.
Gas turbine performance optimization at your fingertips
VTU Energy, an Austrian company specializing in concept optimization and software systems for thermal power plants, has developed the Gas Turbine Library that accurately predicts gas turbine performance based on vendor information or measured performance.
Nonlinear models: coal combustion efficiency and emissions control
Today’s power plants feel the pressure to limit their NOx emissions and improve their production economics.
Where power generation leads the grid must follow
PEi chats with Dr. Joachim Schneider, ABB’s Regional Division Manager, Central Europe, a member of the ABB board in Germany, and a keynote speaker at this year’s POWER-GEN Europe, about the world’s rapidly evolving power generation landscape, and its implications for our transmission and distribution grids.
Peak practice: choosing a brand new engine for variable load generation
Leading Belgian power provider SPE explains why the utility chose the Rolls-Royce Trent 60 DLE gas turbines to replace the diesel engines at the Ghent Ham peaking power station site.
Nuclear power: finding the right code-certified fluid system supplier
Choosing the right fluid system component supplier is vital for a nuclear utility.
Test facility promotes innovative wind blade design
Denmark’s Risø DTU, which is its National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, recently inaugurated a research facility that will be able to investigate the impact of different physical loads on wind turbine blades, mimicking what the wind does to the blades over a turbine’s lifetime.
Time catches up with Russia
It is nine months since Russia’s erstwhile state power monopoly RAO UES was liquidated and its power market liberalization programme began.
Europe’s power generation investment future
You cannot pick up a newspaper or turn on the television these days without being bombarded with doom and gloom about the world’s economic situation, and its prospect of recovery.
The wacky world of ownership unbundling
After many months of debate, horse-trading and haggling, the European Union has finally delivered its Third Energy Package.
INTERNATIONAL
Kuwait plans to issue a new tender to build a power plant in April, which it expects will now cost far less than earlier estimates, in excess of 700m dinars ($2.4bn), a government official said.
EUROPE
RWE Power is starting to develop a high-temperature thermal storage facility for combined-cycle power plants (CCGT).
ASIA-PACIFIC
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has announced the signing of two agreements with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) to build multiple GEH-designed nuclear reactors to help meet India’s energy production goals.
AMERICAS
A report by the US Congress’ non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Department of Energy (DOE) inaccurately estimated the costs for its FutureGen project, and that this flagship clean coal project should not have been shelved.
COMPANIES
Statkraft AS, which is described as Europe’s largest renewable energy company, and Global Investment Holdings, a Turkish diversified holding company, have signed an agreement to transfer hydropower projects to Statkraft.
GensetRoundup
Cummins Inc. has announced the approval of B20 biodiesel blend for use with 19- to 78-litre high horsepower engine platforms manufactured after 1 January 2008.
EquipmentRoundup
John Crane has launched two new separation seals. The seasls offer a proven solution to the problems of oil penetrating from a compressor bearing into an outboard gas seal, and the ingress of process gas from the outboard stage of the gas seal into the bearing cavity.
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