Last month, as Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast and knocked out power for much of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, there were a few islands of relative stability. As New…
Power
Monthly Issue | December 3, 2012
Courtesy: Nexterra and UBC/Don Erhardt A sleek, modern building on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, set amongst dense pine forest on neatly landscaped grounds,…
Courtesy: Bilfinger Berger Group Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, has long been a niche generation resource in the U.S., largely confined to industries needing a reliable…
Des Moines, Iowa–based MidAmerican Energy Holdings and Calgary-based TransAlta announced in late October that they have formed a partnership to develop, build, and operate new gas-fired power plants in Canada.…
Natural gas–fired generation gave up some ground to coal during the third quarter, and coal producers are optimistic that higher natural gas prices in recent weeks will benefit coal, especially…
Source: Wikipedia In August, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held a series of five regional conferences to gather information regarding coordination between natural gas and electric markets. As we…
While there may have been thick partisan gloss brushed onto the national election scene, shale gas and unconventional oil development have overwhelming bipartisan support at the state level. First, begin…
The beating our electrical infrastructure endured during Superstorm Sandy was severe. While the centralized power plants in affected regions survived relatively unscathed, the systems that connect to them did not.…
Courtesy: PetroChina China has a lot of shale gas. To the tune of 1,275 Tcf of technically recoverable shale reserves, by some estimates. But today it is all still sitting…