China to buy four AP1000 reactors In a deal brokered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), China is ordering four Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors for plants to be constructed…
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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.
DOE walks the clean coal talk The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Treasury Department have awarded $1 billion in tax credits to nine companies for seven projects involving advanced…
U.S. demand for natural gas is projected to increase by more than 50% by 2020. Companies are building—and the public is opposing—receiving terminals on three coasts that would increase imports…
Many consumer magazines make their annual forecasts at this time of year on a variety of topics, such as politics or celebrity shenanigans. The prognostications, though seldom correct, are entertaining…
This generation roundup provides snapshots of activity—current, planned, and proposed—in the four distinct U.S. electric power generation market niches. Use the capacity and investment levels provided to gauge the relative…
Exelon Power's Fairless Hills Generating Station (Figure 1) is a two-unit, 60-MW power plant purchased in 1997 from USX Corp. (then known as U.S. Steel). It recently was reconfigured to…
Renewables require rethinking just about everything Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are here to stay, with nearly half of U.S. states having adopted some measure to push regulated utilities to use…
I remember how precisely we performed the "pour" when my buddies and I economized and bought beer by the pitcher in college. You had to get the flow just right…
Although few Americans would characterize the affair this way, the U.S. has a love-hate relationship with coal-fired power plants. Fifty percent of the electricity generation in this country begins with…
Nova Scotia, on Canada's southeast coast, is a thin peninsula. No matter where you go, you're never more than 34 miles from the sea. Residents of the province get…