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A Primer on Gas Turbine Failure Modes
When a gas turbine goes down, recovery can be an expensive, time-consuming process. Knowing what can go wrong and how to anticipate turbine failures can help you avoid a difficult unplanned outage. Gas-fired power is hot and getting hotter. The… Read More

Supercritical CO2 Brayton Power Cycle Pilot Plant Bolstered with $80M in Federal Funding
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will award up to $80 million to a 10-MWe pilot project that seeks to advance the development and commercialization of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton power cycles. The plant will be… Read More

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Kemper County IGCC Plant Generates First Syngas-Fueled Power
Mississippi Power's integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in Kemper County, Miss., on October 12 has begun generating its first power using a combination of syngas (produced from locally mined lignite) and natural gas. The milestone is a major one,… Read More

AEP to Shed Ohio, Indiana Coal and Gas Plants in Move for Full Regulation
In an effort to become a fully regulated power company, American Electric Power (AEP) has agreed to sell four Midwestern power plants—representing a total of 5.2 GW—to a newly formed joint venture of Blackstone and ArcLight Capital Partners for about… Read More

LIVE UPDATES: The Clean Power Plan at the D.C. Circuit
Oral arguments on the merits of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan were concluded before an en banc panel (10 judges, rather than the anticipated three) at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on September 27. West Virginia… Read More

SLIDESHOW: An Alarming Trend Affecting U.S. Baseload Power
States, regulators, and market participants have in recent years called attention to a trend concerning uneconomic baseload generation in organized wholesale markets, specifically in ISO New England, New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), MISO, PJM, the Electric Reliability Council of… Read More

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