The year 1882 opened on a United States still dependent on the water wheel and steam engine. Power was made where it was used because there was no effective means…
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How to supply and configure an energy economy and infrastructure for a world of more than 10 billion inhabitants by mid-century is perhaps the principal long-range issue facing human civilization…
May 1885 POWER reported on the latest Twist Automatic Engine (Figure 1) in its cover story for the May 1885 issue. The editor explained that "each end of the cylinder…
Npower plans big coal plant in UK Npower, the British generation subsidiary of German energy giant RWE, is planning to build a 1,600-MW supercritical coal-fired plant to replace an existing…
Daniel Yergin, founder and CEO of Cambridge Energy Associates (CERA), is among the best at connecting the dots of the energy industry's past and turning them into a coherent picture…
Winter storms ravage Nebraska grid No state in the U.S. was slammed harder by this winter's weather than Nebraska. Storm after storm swept across the Cornhusker State, devastating the transmission…
SYSTEM RELIABILITY The critical subset Some of the most interesting reliability standards are also the ones getting the most attention as we approach the transition to mandatory compliance and enforcement this…
Power engineers are under pressure to develop and deploy new technologies at an ever-quickening pace. The world of power engineering today might best be described as one of technology chaos.…
When China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, market opportunities for U.S. companies expanded by an order of magnitude. China is America's fastest growing export market, with…
ELECTRIC POWER, the world's most comprehensive conference covering power generation, has been programmed to meet the information needs of power generating companies. Programming is developed under the direction of an…