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O&M
Columbia Nuclear Plant Shatters Generation Records in Quest for Reliability, Efficiency
As the sole nuclear generator in the hydro-rich Pacific Northwest region, the Columbia Generating Station’s mission to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective, and carbon-free power has never been more
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Nuclear
Russia Continues Legacy of Innovation at Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant
Russia’s nuclear power station operations arm Rosenergoatom brought its most powerful nuclear reactor to date into commercial operation in February 2017, marking the latest evolution of its Water-Water
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Coal
Major Engineering and Equipment Company Builds-to-Own Its First Coal Plant
Given the opportunity to help India’s bread basket alleviate a chronic power shortage, a major engineering, construction, and manufacturing firm built its first 1,400-MW coal-fired power plant in just 54
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Coal
A Breath of Cleaner Air on the Lake Michigan Shore
Working on a small patch of land bordered on one side by Lake Michigan and on the other three by the small city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the team tasked with the installation of a state-of-the-art air quality
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Legal & Regulatory
Improved Emission Controls and State-of-the-Art Ash Handling Extend Gallatin’s Life
It may not be the newest plant in the Tennessee Valley Authority fleet, but the Gallatin Fossil Plant has been retrofitted with some of the latest technology available to the coal power industry. It’s got
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Gas
The Highly Efficient Workhorse of Brunswick County
Dominion Energy’s massive new natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Freeman, Virginia, has been servicing customers since April 2016. In its first year online, the plant carried roughly 10% of
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Gas
World’s Most-Efficient Combined Cycle Plant: EDF Bouchain
When you bring two power giants together to develop a new breed of combined cycle gas turbine plant, you expect the results to be pretty good. When EDF and GE installed the first commercial 9HA gas turbine in
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Coal
Grand Resilience: How a State Agency Pioneered Gas Technology and Bolstered Critical Supply
Unit 3 at the Grand River Energy Center in Chouteau, Oklahoma, was the Grand River Dam Authority’s first construction project in 30 years. Yet, the team put this distinct project—one of the largest and
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Gas
Model of Gas-Fired Efficiency Rises in Heart of Coal Country
A partnership between one of the nation’s largest utilities and one of the world’s largest construction contractors resulted in the 1,100-MW Paradise Combined Cycle Plant in Drakesboro, Kentucky, next door
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Gas
Growing Community Seeks Attractive Power Plant
Nestled near the center of Shakopee, Minnesota, is the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency’s (MMPA’s) Shakopee Energy Park. The plant, a 46-MW natural gas-fueled reciprocating engine facility, powers the city
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