Gas Power Direct August 14, 2019
Automated Plant Startups Reduce Fixed and Fuel-Related Costs
State-of-the-art automation systems are common at power plants these days. Still, many plants start up units in a very manual way. When startups were rare, the implications were minimal, but as units cycle…
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PG&E Asks Bankruptcy Judge to Back Restructured Power Deals
California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has asked the judge overseeing its bankruptcy case to support restructured deals with some of the utility’s power suppliers in an effort to…
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Adding Fog for Power Augmentation and Emission Reduction
A pilot project was initiated by China’s largest energy provider to test the effectiveness of fog-based power augmentation for a gas turbine at a compressor station. The system provided a significant…
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July marks two important milestones that set gas-fired generation on its course to becoming a dominant form of power generation: commercial operation of the world’s first industrial gas turbine in…

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Next-Generation HRSGs Start Fast and Reduce Emissions
Today’s heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) are suffering reliability problems, mainly because they’re being operated in the cycling mode instead of the baseload mode for which they were designed. The…
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Applying IEEE 1584 in Power Generation Facilities
An arc flash is the explosive energy released when an electrical fault causes an arc. This rapid release of energy causes excessive temperatures in addition to air and metal in the path of the arc expanding…
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Industry Press Releases
Siemens performs first large gas turbine exchange in the U.S.

Ansaldo Energia wins a contract for the supply of a 300 MW open-cycle plant in Irsching (Germany)

Benefits of Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station Celebrated

Renowned Futurist Jim Carroll to Keynote Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Foxboro and Triconex User Groups

TC Energy reaches agreement to sell Ontario natural gas-fired power plants for $2.87 billion

GE Digital Launches New Capabilities to Automate Inspection Planning and Mitigate Compliance Risk

Rolls-Royce off-grid plant supplies power for industrial production in Mexico
 
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