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Cybersecurity
New College Program Focuses on Cybersecurity for the Utility Industry
Thomas Edison State College, located in Trenton, N.J., has created an online program through which students can obtain a graduate certificate in cybersecurity with a focus on utility environments. The
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Renewables
Statoil to Build World’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm
Nearly five years after the world’s first large-scale floating deepwater wind turbine was erected 11 kilometers (km) offshore Karmøy, southeast Norway, Norwegian energy firm Statoil has made a final
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Renewables
Greece, Croatia, and Italy Chart a Course to More Solar Power
A status update and forecast for solar photovoltaic power in Greece, Croatia, and Italy.
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Renewables
Europe’s New Coal Curtain: Eastern Europe Embraces Coal as Western Europe Deserts It—and Russia Is Still All In
This story is being written as world leaders gather in Paris for the COP-21 climate summit. Much of the reason they are meeting is because of the widespread burning of coal and the resulting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that are altering the planet’s biosphere. Though the burning of coal is not the only reason the […]
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Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas Hosts Industry Leaders; Showcases first M501J Gas Turbine to Move through the Assembly Line at Savannah Machinery Works in GA
Further Enhances MHPSA’s Long Term Commitment to the U.S. Market (Savannah, GA November 30, 2015) Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MHPSA) has begun production on the world’s most advanced gas turbine at its Savannah Machinery Works (SMW) facility in Savannah, Georgia. Recently, 65 industry leaders representing electric utilities, independent power producers, developers, investment bankers, […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Seminole Electric Cooperative Sees Big Challenges from Clean Power Plan
Florida’s Seminole Electric Cooperative faces what may be the most difficult generation transition in the nation as a result of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. One of the nation’s largest generation and transmission rural electric cooperatives, Seminole owes its origins and its current position primarily to a single coal-fired plant. When electric utility veteran […]
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Water
Water-Stressed Regions Provide Proving Grounds for Advanced ZLD Systems
In water-stressed regions outside the U.S., power producers and other industrial water users are incorporating higher levels of water reuse, some to the point of zero liquid discharge (ZLD), due to heightened
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Legal & Regulatory
Goldilocks, Ozone, and Obama’s EPA
There’s an old saying in Washington that when everyone is upset, you’ve probably done something right. By that measure, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest update to the National
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O&M
Coal Pulverizer Maintenance Improves Boiler Combustion
Coal pulverizers are the heart of a pulverized coal-fueled boiler. Often, the root causes of nonoptimized combustion lie with the pulverizers. Capacity; reliability; and environmental issues such as slagging