Power
Monthly Issue | August 30, 2013
Even if you missed Bob Peltier’s retirement signoff in last month’s column, you will have noticed that something has changed. POWER has a new editor at the…
Owner/operator: Sasol New Energy High altitude, an unreliable national grid, and the need to dramatically cut carbon emissions meant a demanding set of requirements for South African chemicals manufacturer Sasol…
Aging human machine interface (HMI) hardware will eventually become a burden on plant operation. Obsolete HMIs can cause problems with connectivity, historical data loss, and hardware failure. As the hardware…
Owners: Chugach Electric Association Inc. and Anchorage Municipal Light & PowerOperator: Chugach Electric Association Inc. The Southcentral Power Project is Alaska’s third-largest power plant and its most fuel-efficient. By employing…
Norwegian company Thor Energy began a five-year-long irradiation test of thorium fuel at the Institute for Energy Technology’s research reactor in Halden, Norway, marking the most recent investigation into the…
What if you could send a control message between two points on the electricity grid—say between a control room operator and a turbine or between a system operator and a…
The $2.9 billion London Array—the world’s biggest offshore wind farm—opened this July in the Outer Thames Estuary about 12 miles off the coasts of Kent and Essex. The 175-turbine installation…
When most people think of the AURORA cybersecurity threat today, they recall an image of an out-of-control generator during a 2007 demonstration test. But the threat didn’t end in 2007.…
China hit two of its most significant hydroelectric milestones in recent months: Initial operation of the 13.86-GW Xiluodu project—the country’s second-largest hydropower project after the 22.5-GW Three Gorges Dam—and commercial…