By J. Bennett Johnston It is fashionable these days for policymakers, particularly those running for office, to somberly suggest that America needs an energy policy—thus implying that America has no…
Power
Monthly Issue | March 15, 2008
ELECTRIC POWER 2008, the world's most comprehensive conference covering power generation, will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the Baltimore Convention Center from May 6 through May 8. A full agenda…
—Dr. Robert Peltier, PE Editor-in-Chief Ever wonder why many utilities receive so little respect from the public? In America, open competition requires every business to earn customers' trust before making…
What a difference a month makes. No sooner did the FutureGen Alliance announce its long-awaited decision about the location of the zero-emissions demonstration plant than the DOE did an abrupt…
GRID RELIABILITY New CIP standards leave questions unanswered This January, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 706 approving a set of eight reliability standards for critical infrastructure…
Renewable power proponents exuded great confidence as the U.S. Congress approached its near-annual end-of-year task of extending the production tax credit (PTC) for wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal power…
When asked to imagine a power plant, most people's mental images don't include families dangling fishing poles into cooling ponds or kids moving among educational displays that explain alternative forms…
Sample and analysis panels are on the front lines of the constant battle to detect power plant water chemistry problems. However, at many plants, operators have low confidence in the…
Lower Colorado River Authority's (LCRA's) Lost Pines Power Park (LPPP) is located in central Texas, 30 miles southeast of Austin. The site hosts two separate facilities that provide distinctly different…
The cascading bypass system is perhaps the most common design for managing high-pressure steam in a combined-cycle plant. It is the hot reheat (HRH) bypass valve actuator that defines the…