Courtesy: Wärtsilä Corp. Owner/operator: Amman Asia Electric Power Co. For many people, when the topic of peaking power plants arises, gas turbines come to mind. But as this world record–holding…
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Courtesy: Siemens Owner/operator: Cengiz Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. The 600-MW Cengiz Enerji Samsun Combined Cycle Plant was constructed in only 23 months and produces electricity at a thermal efficiency…
Courtesy: Siemens Owner/operator: Panda Power Funds A market desperate for new capacity. A highly challenging financing environment. A grid with rapidly expanding intermittent wind generation. ERCOT needed solutions. Panda Power…
Courtesy: ENMAX Owners/operator: ENMAX and Capital Power/ENMAX Faced with an impending wave of coal plant retirements, Calgary utility ENMAX set out to build the largest, most efficient, most environmentally friendly…
The 290-MW Agua Caliente Solar Project is the latest addition to the nation’s growing solar capacity and now holds the title as the largest photovoltaic plant in the world. The…
Retrofitted to the outlet of a 30-year-old reservoir, the two-stage, 53-MW, 90-turbine Ashta Hydropower Plant on the Drin River in northwest Albania is a textbook example of how innovative run-of-river…
The 280-MW Solana Generating Station combines concentrating solar power (trough) technology with thermal energy storage, which allows the plant to operate after the sun goes down with up to a…
Think your nuclear plant faced delays and obstacles? India’s Kudankulam project, Unit 1 of which begins commercial operation this month, spent 26 years in development and construction and faced down…
While other countries move to reduce or eliminate nuclear generation, China has been rapidly expanding it. With 27 reactors under construction, its installed nuclear capacity is expected to more than…
South Africa began mothballing coal-fired plants almost 25 years ago when reserve margins were high and independent power producers (IPPs) were invited to invest. Ten years later, mass electrification, rapid…