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Capturing Carbon and Seizing Innovation: Petra Nova Is POWER's Plant of the Year
Winning POWER’s highest honor, the U.S.’s first and world’s largest commercial post-combustion carbon capture system at a power plant is distinctively both a globally significant environmental… Read More

DOE Grid Study Points Finger at Natural Gas
In a long-awaited study of electricity markets and grid reliability, the Department of Energy has called out natural gas as the No. 1 reason for retirements of coal and nuclear plants, breaking from the Trump administration’s prior talking point blaming… Read More

SCANA Reverses Move to Abandon V.C. Summer Nuclear Project
SCANA Corp. is withdrawing a petition submitted to regulators seeking to abandon the construction of Units 2 and 3 at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina. The company’s subsidiary South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G) said on August… Read More

Design Tomorrow’s Combined Cycle Power Plant Using Previous Lessons Learned
Today’s construction boom in the combined cycle/cogeneration sector is great news for suppliers of gas turbines (GTs), heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), and engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services. But before this boom advances from artist’s sketches (Figure 1) to first fires, the… Read More

Cost to Complete Vogtle AP1000 Nuclear Units Could Balloon to $20B
Costs to build the two Vogtle AP1000 units under construction in Georgia could range between $18.3 billion and $19.8 billion—and for now, Southern Co. is pinning its hopes to complete the project on approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission… Read More

Understanding Coal Power Plant Heat Rate and Efficiency
Proposed U.S. standards for reducing carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants rely heavily upon generation-side efficiency improvements. Fuel, operations, and plant design all affect the overall efficiency of a plant, as well as its carbon emissions. This review of… Read More

Microgrids: An Old Concept Could Be New Again
Self-contained, small islands of electric generation, storage and distribution inside the existing grid–microgrids–could be the next big thing in electricity. But some argue they may be just another… Read More

25 Differences Between Private Sector and Government Managers
You often hear it said that government should be run more like a business. But a senior industry executive with cabinet-level experience in the Reagan and Bush II administrations explains why it's not that simple… Read More

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Check out these stories from POWER's August 2017 issue and its sister publications:

Market Dynamics Are Complicated as Coal Battles Natural Gas

Ameren's TAC Microgrid Seamlessly Integrates Distributed Energy Resources

Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis System Squeezes Money Savings Out of Water Management

Collaboration and Innovation Produce a Powerful Microgrid Solution

Flexibility, Efficiency, and Low Emissions Make Repowered Facility a Success

Is Natural Gas Threatening Grid Reliability?

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