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March 2007
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Nuclear Plant Uprates
With the nuclear fleet performing so well, owners are pursuing projects to get even more power from their assets.
It Broke! Are You Covered?
Upgrades, change-outs and expansions mean component warranties are more important than ever.
Five Common Fire Protection Problems
Fire protection systems are sometimes viewed as a “black hole” by power generation engineering, operations and maintenance personnel.
Comparing Emissions: PC, CFB and IGCC
Data from operating coal plants offers insight, and a few surprises, on comparable emissions.
TXU-turn
TXU last month cashed in big time as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group said they plan to acquire the company in a deal valued at around $45 billion.
Waste Not, Want Not
Each year Americans generate more than 400 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) and construction and demolition (C&D) waste.
Nuclear Power’s History Has Role In Its Future
Not long ago, someone from outside the electric industry asked me about my views on nuclear energy-do I really think it is a viable generating technology of the future?
Retrofit Decreases Dissolved Oxygen at Low Load
Entergy’s Little Gypsy Unit 2 is a 450 MW gas-fired (with an oil alternative) thermal power plant originally designed for base load operation.
Selecting the Right Water Scale Treatment
Water scale on any heat transfer surface reduces the effectiveness of that heat transfer, resulting in reduced equipment efficiency and increased energy consumption, costs and even plant downtime.
Wet, Dry and In Between
In 2004, as part of a least-cost resource plan filing with the Colorado Public Utility Commission, Xcel Energy proposed constructing a 750 MW supercritical coal-fired unit at the Comanche Station near Pueblo, Colo.
TXU Acquirers Reduce Coal Plans
An investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) is acquiring TXU in a transaction valued at $45 billion.
I’ll See That and Raise You....
Luring FutureGen, the $1 billion federally funded near-zero-emissions demonstration coal plant, has turned into a game of high-stakes poker between Illinois and Texas, the only two players still sitting at the table.
PJM Forecasts Solid Growth in Peak Electricity Use Over 10 Years
Consumers will increase their peak demand for electricity by 16.7 percent over the next 10 years, according to PJM Interconnection, the electric power supply system operator for 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Sale Reveals Coal Asset Value
American Electric Power subsidiary Texas Central Co. (TCC) in February completed the sale of its 7.8 percent share of Oklaunion Power Station to the City of Brownsville, Texas (Public Utilities Board Brownsville) for $42.75 million plus adjustments.
Global Rise Reported in Key Commodity Costs
Special from Power Engineering magazine’s Coal-Gen e-newsletter, February 15
Report Offers Roadmap for Better CHP Benefit Analysis
Despite a multitude of energy efficiency benefits produced by combined heat and power (CHP) installations, few tools exist for estimating the displaced emissions or predicting how CHP affects constrained transmission systems or distributed emissions implications.
1,500 kW of Rooftop Solar
Ground has broken on what will be the world’s largest solar-powered neighborhood.
Natural Gas Cartel Coming?
Quatar and Russia rank among the world’s largest gas producers and Qatar sits atop the largest gas field on earth.
SRP Decision Seen as Ending Mohave Re-Start
Plans aimed at restarting the Mohave Generating Station plant in southwest Nevada (pictured above), which went into service in 1971 and closed in December 2005, were all but laid to rest in February with a Salt River Project (SRP) decision to end activities aimed at restarting the 1,580 MW plant.
Construction & Contracts
Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Briefs
Personnel & Promotions
Technology Could Invert the DG World
A new inverter technology will soon enable combined heat and power (CHP) installations as small as 100 kW to perform as fully flexible, grid-paralleled backup power providers.
Products
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