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O&M
Optimize Power Plant Operations with Industrial Data Management and Predictive Analytics
In today’s digital world, an optimally run power plant relies on valuable and accurate data in order to ensure assets are running reliably and with minimal downtime. Streaming in from control systems, SCADA
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Commentary
Power Industry Wins with Final Clean Power Plan
Though most power generators and states might have preferred to not deal at all with a new rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions, the final Clean Power Plan (CPP), released August 3, gives most of the power
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Gas
Putting a 650-MW Gas Plant Online in Egypt Within Five Months
Power-strapped Egypt’s first fast-track natural gas–fired project was completed in a record 159 days from groundbreaking to commissioning this July. The 650-MW Attaqa Simple Cycle Power Plant near Suez
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Gas
TOP PLANTS: Kyaukse Power Plant, Kyaukse, Myanmar
Emerging from decades of isolation, fragility, and conflict, Myanmar has, since 2011, ushered in a reformist government and embarked upon unprecedented political and economic reforms. Among those reforms has
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TOP PLANTS: IPP3, Amman, Jordan
Sharing borders with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, and Iraq, Jordan sits in a very precarious part of the world. To make matters worse, the country’s economy is among the smallest in the Middle East. Chronic
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TOP PLANTS: Cengiz Enerji Samsun Combined Cycle Plant, Samsun, Turkey
The Turkish electricity market was opened to competition in 2001 when the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the Electricity Market Law, which unbundled its generation, transmission, and wholesale power
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TOP PLANTS: Panda Temple I and Panda Sherman Combined Cycle Plants, Texas
In the early 2010s, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) was staring down the barrel of dangerously low reserve margins, a combination of growing demand and an energy-only wholesale market that
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Gas
TOP PLANTS: Qurayyah Combined Cycle Power Plant, Qurayyah, Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is facing major population growth over the next several decades and, with it, rapidly growing electricity demand. In 2013, the country generated 292.2 TWh of electricity, which
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Gas
TOP PLANTS: Shepard Energy Centre, Calgary, Alberta
As with many areas in North America and Europe, electricity generation in the Canadian province of Alberta is in transition toward cleaner, more efficient, more water-wise power. According to statistics from
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O&M
Leveraging Fuel Flexibility for Coal Power Plant Survival
While having lunch at a downtown café with my friend the biology professor, the subject of animal extinction arose. “When it comes down to it, we really don’t know exactly why most prehistoric species