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News
The Dark Side of the Smart Grid
The smart grid offers great promise to transform the electric system, enabling two-way communication between providers and consumers over the network, and allowing new services that can save electricity and
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Plant Design
Comparing Gas Turbine Life to Turbine Control Life: What You Need to Know
Turbine control manufacturers often suggest retrofit projects are the only viable strategy to resolve control system end-of-life or obsolescence issues. But do plant operators really need to upgrade turbine
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News
Best Practices for Wind Project Partial Repowering
Partial wind project repowering enables owners to generate more energy from their sites, extend the life and improve the availability of their projects, and take advantage of extended renewable energy
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Workforce
Allocating Risks Strategically: How to Complete Successful Power and Energy Projects
Power and energy construction projects are often complex and nearly always full of risks. On some jobs, miscalculating schedules and underestimating material expenses can result in hundreds of millions of
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Plant Design
Double-Tube-Sheet Heat Exchangers: A Solution to Cross Contamination
Heat exchangers are vital equipment for power plant operation. Many different types of heat exchangers exist, but for applications that cannot afford cross contamination of shell-side and tube-side fluids
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News
Equipment Showcase – CEMS, Analyzers, and Sensors
A continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) is required in the U.S. under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to continuously collect, record, and report emissions data from industrial
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Coal
Utility Business Model Reform and the Role of Big Data
Stories about seismic changes ready to hit utilities and transform their century-old business models fill power industry newsletters and media. But rarely do I see any purveyors of industry news provide a
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Energy Storage
Energy Storage Changes the Power Profile
The power grid is a pretty complex system. Electricity is generally produced on an as-needed basis. Generators ramp up and down based on demand. However, energy storage systems are beginning to change how
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Fuel
High-Volume Hydrogen Gas Turbines Take Shape
In preparation for a large-scale power sector shift toward decarbonization, several major power equipment manufacturers are developing gas turbines that can operate on a high-hydrogen-volume fuel. According to
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News
Extending Turbine Life to Meet Wind Power’s Potential
Meeting increasing worldwide demand for wind energy depends on reliable turbine performance, and performance can significantly benefit from optimized main shaft and gearbox bearing selection. Wind turbine
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