Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Vogtle Partners To Proceed with Beleaguered Nuclear Expansion Project A partnership of companies seeking to build twin AP1000 reactors as part of the Vogtle nuclear expansion in Georgia will seek to complete the project, even as costs could surge […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Capturing Carbon and Seizing Innovation: Petra Nova Is POWER's Plant of the Year Winning POWER’s highest honor, the U.S.’s first and world’s largest commercial post-combustion carbon capture system at a power plant is distinctively both a globally significant environmental… Read […]

Demonstrating the company’s commitment to supporting Iraq’s power sector, Siemens has expanded an existing service agreement with KAR Group in Iraq to provide comprehensive operations and maintenance (O&M) for two newly added SSC5-2000E power plant units at the Khormala plant in the Kurdistan region. The 930-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant meets nearly 30 percent […]

Gas Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job DTE Plans New 1,100-MW Gas Plant Near Detroit DTE Energy has filed plans with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to build a 1,100-MW natural gas-fired power plant on about 100 acres east of the existing Belle River Power Plant, northeast […]

Coal Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job Judge Rules TVA Must Move Gallatin Coal Ash A federal judge on August 4 said the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) must dig up coal ash at one of its power plants and move it to a lined waste site. The order […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide SCANA, Santee Cooper Abandon V.C. Summer AP1000 Nuclear Units, Citing High Costs SCANA Corp. and Santee Cooper have suspended the construction of Units 2 and 3 at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina.  Read More   Advertisement […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Report: Advanced Nuclear Tech Could Be Lifeline for Industry Advanced nuclear technology brought to fruition could produce electricity at an average levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) roughly 40% lower than conventional pressurized water reactors, according to a July 25 […]

Project Optimizes Denver’s Peña Station NEXT Net-Zero Energy Development The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Panasonic Corporation and Xcel Energy to simulate and optimize the energy load profile of Peña Station NEXT, a planned 382-acre mixed-use development in Denver, Colo. The project will employ the grid modeling […]

As part of the addition of two new high efficiency units to the Tanjung Jati B coal-fired power plant in Central Java, Indonesia, Clyde Bergemann was entrusted with the delivery of the bottom ash handling systems. Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS), supplier of the ultra-supercritical pressure boilers, opted for DRYCONTM, Clyde Bergemann’s class leading […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Senate Subcommittee Rejects Trump’s ‘Unrealistic’ DOE Budget Request In negotiating the Senate’s fiscal year 2018 (FY18) Energy and Water (E&W) Development Appropriation’s bill, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development, had […]

Gas Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job DOE Won’t Increase Regulation on Gas to Boost Coal, Perry Says The Trump administration wants to revitalize the coal industry, but they will not do so by imposing regulation on the natural gas industry, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry told reporters […]

GE’s record-setting 9HA gas turbine technology will be heart of new 780 megawatt (MW) Tambak Lorok facility GE Power Services to provide multi-year service agreement for 15 years GE Capital to work with PT Perusahan Listrik Negara (PLN) to secure debt financing for the power plant project PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB) deploys Predix*-based Asset […]

Renewable*Connect® to provide solar and wind energy for convention center and City’s drinking water facility Minneapolis (July 18, 2017) –  The Minneapolis Convention Center and one of the City’s two drinking water campuses will be powered, in part, by local solar and wind energy from Xcel Energy’s Renewable*Connect program. Hundreds of other Minnesota electric customers, […]

Strategic partnership to augment customers’ ability to stop breaches and proactively detect and mitigate security risks SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 18, 2017 – CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced a joint Services go-to market partnership with Dragos, the renowned Industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity experts. Today, CrowdStrike Services offers industry-leading cyber readiness assessments, […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide NRG’s New Plan: Sell Assets, Change Focus, Raise Cash NRG Energy said it will sell as much as $4 billion in assets as it seeks to lower its debt and cut costs after a revolt by activist investors unhappy […]

Coal Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job Improved Maintenance Strategy and Excellent Planning Turns Coal Plant into a Top Performer Southern Co.’s Plant Scherer was chosen as the 2017 Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group Plant of the Year based on a rigorous selection criteria, including safety, fire […]

Although President Trump has been promoting a pro-coal energy agenda, there are four things killing coal that the administration may not be able to remedy. That was the message Bill Ritter Jr. delivered to American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Power and Energy Conference & Exhibition attendees during his keynote address on June 27. Ritter […]

Combination creates a leading global industrial, commercial and infrastructure services company KENNESAW, GA and WAUKESHA, WI, June 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services (“BEIS”) and Safway Group (“Safway”) have completed their previously announced merger effective today. Brand Industrial Services, Inc. (“Brand”) will be the new name for the combined company. With […]

Instrumentation and process control are essential aspects of the manufacturing line in the Minerals industry and many process variables are used for proper control. Moisture measurement & control has countless benefits on the manufacturing line including: higher quality final product, consistency of the final product, reduced energy costs from downtime, less waste, plant production efficiency […]

The Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) at an open meeting on June 21 unanimously passed a motion instructing its counsel to prepare an order pursuing potential solutions regarding the Kemper County Power Generation Facility. In a press release, the MPSC said the “Kemper Facility should operate using only natural gas.” The commission said it wanted […]

A newly released update to the Power Sector Carbon Index, developed by Carnegie Mellon University with the support of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), found that U.S. power plant emissions averaged 955 lb of CO2 per MWh during the first three months of 2017. 1. Carnegie Mellon University Power Sector Carbon Index. The index shows […]

RJM International, the Winchester, UK–based provider of emissions reduction technology and equipment to the global power generation and large combustion plant sectors, announces today that it has signed a Representative Agreement with a local Indian company, Buka Power, based in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Under the terms of the agreement, Buka Power will […]

St. Michael, MN (June 9, 2017) – U.S. Water, a subsidiary of ALLETE Inc. (NYSE: ALE), the leading national provider of integrated solutions for water treatment, celebrates 20 years in business today, June 9th. Thank you to Our Employees and Their Families. Our deepest appreciation to our employees and their families for their dedication and […]

Coal Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job Kemper, Now Slated to Start in Late June, Will Need Costly Post In-Service Improvement Projects Mississippi Power’s Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) project is now expected to be in service by the end of June, but the company expects it […]

Kansas City Power & Light Co. (KCP&L) plans to retire five coal-fired generating units at two stations by the end of next year. It will also close, by December 31, 2019, a unit that was just converted from coal to gas last year. The decision is part of “the company’s commitment to a sustainable energy […]

Exelon Corp. said it plans to retire the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant around September 30, 2019, unless policy reforms are enacted in Pennsylvania. The company used a similar ploy in Illinois to pressure lawmakers into passing the state’s Future Energy Jobs bill, which provides subsidies for nuclear power plants. In that case, Exelon […]

China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) completed the dome lift at Fuqing Unit 5—the world’s first power plant being constructed utilizing the HPR 1000 (also known as the Hualong One) reactor design—15 days ahead of schedule on May 25. The feat was no small accomplishment. The dome weighs about 340 metric tons and has a diameter […]

CEO Tom Fanning told Southern Co.’s shareholders attending the company’s annual meeting on May 24 that a decision on how to proceed with the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion could take several more months. The Vogtle expansion—one of two new nuclear construction projects underway in the U.S. utilizing Westinghouse’s AP1000 technology—has been in limbo, albeit still in […]

Ohio-based FirstEnergy’s plan for a rescue of its two uncompetitive Ohio nuclear plants took a nosedive May 17, as the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee suspended action on the company’s proposal to charge its customers a fee to subsidize the plants. FirstEnergy’s plan mimics programs adopted in Illinois and New York to create “zero energy […]

Gas Power Direct   Current Issue | Find a Job | Post a Job Inlet Air Cooling Systems Improve Gas Turbine Performance An inlet air cooling (IAC) system offers one of the most cost-effective ways to improve gas turbine (GT) performance—especially during the peak hours of hot summer months. After all, GT output depends on&hellips; […]