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	CoalHuaneng Power’s Changxing Station ZLD Project, ChinaTo satisfy China’s more stringent water use and air pollution rules, developers of the new 1.3-GW ultrasupercritical coal-fired Changxing Power Plant used a novel forward osmosis–based brine concentration Tagged in:
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	CommentaryThe Progress of Power TechnologyI’ve developed something of a love/hate relationship with awards. Initially, it’s exciting to spot outstanding or unusual projects for our POWER awards, but over time, any number of things can happen to those plants, making them appear less than stellar. Sometimes it’s changing policy or market conditions that make a record-setting plant completely uneconomic (see […] 
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	CoalDusseldorf’s Lausward Power Plant Fortuna Unit Wins POWER’s Highest AwardDüsseldorf’s new “Block Fortuna” at the Lausward Power Plant, owned by municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, is setting records and giving Germany’s coal-fired power plants some much-needed competition for backing up the nation’s large percentage of variable renewable power. Germany’s Energiewende (literally, “energy turn”) functions as something of a living laboratory, where innovation equals survival, because […] 
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	RenewablesRwanda’s Power Production Triumph over a “Killer Lake”Lake Kivu, the 1,040-square-mile “killer lake” that stretches over the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has long been a source of trepidation. Because it sits between two 
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	RenewablesBlue Lake Expansion Project, Sitka, AlaskaBaranof Island is home to Sitka, Alaska. Located on the outer coast of Alaska’s Inside Passage, it is accessible only by air and sea (although once on the island, standard forms of transportation are Tagged in:
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	RenewablesBlackspring Ridge Wind Project, Carmangay, AlbertaWith its vast resources of oil, gas, coal, and tar sands—some of the largest in the world—the province of Alberta has long been known as Canada’s fuel tank. Coal- and gas-fired power has supplied the Tagged in:
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	RenewablesDesert Sunlight Solar Farm, Desert Center, CaliforniaJust how fast are things moving in solar? When we received the nomination for the massive Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in late April, the 550-MW facility was the largest solar power plant in the world, sharing Tagged in:
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	RenewablesOlkaria Geothermal Expansion Project, Rift Valley Province, KenyaThe Great Rift Valley is a massive continental fault system that runs 6,000 kilometers (km) from Mozambique to Jordan. In Kenya, the East African nation that is neatly halved by the equator, the Rift Valley is Tagged in:
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	RenewablesSihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant, Gyeonggi Province, South KoreaFrom space, the 12.7-kilometer (km) Sihwa Lake tidal barrage that houses a 400-meter (m)-long tidal power plant looks like a delicate strand stretched across one of many bays and inlets characterizing the Tagged in:
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	RenewablesTermosolar Borges, Les Borges Blanques, SpainYou can’t spell C-S-P without S-P-A-I-N. Though there are now many nations with concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in operation, and nations with larger ones than Spain possesses, it’s difficult to Tagged in:
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					