It has been exactly five years since Ontario opened up its wholesale and retail electricity markets to competition. That long, hot summer saw many power projects cancelled—the victims of uncertainties…
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Coverage of every aspect of gas-fired power plant design, construction, and O&M, including combined cycles, HRSGs, cogeneration, and LNG.
PG&E mounts tidal power project Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), the city and county of San Francisco, and Golden Gate Energy Co. have agreed to undertake a comprehensive study…
Autodegradation is a phenomenon that plagues gas turbines, particularly large frame units. Once the additives in turbine oil deplete, the oil becomes saturated with soluble soft contaminants. As the oil…
Siemens, E.ON to test world's largest GTG Siemens Power Generation (SPG) last month loaded the world's largest, most powerful gas turbine-generator (GTG) onto a barge on the European inland waterway system…
Albert Einstein once remarked that there is no difference between the past and the future in the four-dimensional space-time-world. That perspective might be useful for theoretical physicists, but the rest…
World's largest PV plant now in Portugal The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) electric generating plant—at 11 MW—has come on-line in sunny Portugal. The project, in the city of Serpa,…
EMISSIONS CONTROL Control pollution and slagging on a shoestring A patented twist on an old technique, flue gas recirculation (FGR), helps prevent slagging in the upper furnace and convective pass.…
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…
As the regulator of U.S. natural gas pipeline networks, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has decided that increasing imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is the best way to…
WorleyParsons has recently been involved in various cogeneration plant studies and projects for district heating, refinery upgrades, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. In all of them, balancing thermal and…