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Transformer Fire Will Delay Watts Bar Unit 2 Commercial Operation
A main bank transformer fire has put a halt to power ascension testing at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear plant. The incident occurred at about 9:10 p.m., on August 30, when an electrical fault on… Read More

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Siemens First to Set New Performance and Efficiency World Records at Düsseldorf Power Plant
Completed 19 days ahead of schedule, Siemens combined cycle power plant equipped with a Siemens H-class gas turbine at the Lausward location in the Düsseldorf, Germany plant set three new records in world-wide comparison. During the test run before acceptance, unit "Fortuna" achieved a maximum electrical net output of 603.8 megawatts (MW), making Siemens the first to set a new record for a combined cycle plant of this type in a single-shaft configuration. Siemens was also first in the world to achieve record-breaking efficiency of around 61.5% for net power-generating efficiency-beating their own efficiency record of 60.75 percent.

NRG Penalized for Faulty Wastewater Treatment at Maryland Coal Plants
NRG Energy will pay $1 million in penalties, install environmental projects worth another $1 million, and complete costly upgrades under a consent decree it entered into with the state of Maryland to resolve wastewater discharge violations at two coal-fired power… Read More

An Asian Nuclear Duo: Monju Down, Bataan Up?
With costs for a restart escalating, Japan is considering scrapping its troubled Monju fast breeder nuclear reactor, just as a never-started nuclear plant in the Philippines may get a new lease on life. Monju May Be Finished Japan Times reported that… Read More

V.C. Summer Unit 2 Reactor Vessel in Place
Westinghouse, the lead supplier for the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project in South Carolina, said on August 30 that it had successfully placed the reactor vessel for the new Unit 2. The 278-metric-ton vessel was rigged into place by… Read More

NREL: Integrating 30% of Wind and PV into Eastern Interconnection Is "Technically Feasible"
If wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) penetrations in the Eastern Interconnection were amped up to 30%, they would decrease coal, combined cycle, and combustion turbine capacity factors by 30% to 50%, a new study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory… Read More

Fire at Coal Power Plant Blamed on Equipment Failure
A fire at Muscatine (Iowa) Power and Water’s (MP&W’s) coal-fired power plant forced Unit 9 offline on August 30. The plant—located along the Mississippi River just south of town—includes three units with a combined capacity of about 276 MW. Units… Read More

Huge Iowa Wind Farm Gets Go-Ahead
MidAmerican Energy’s Wind XI project in Iowa, which will comprise up to 2 GW of total generation, has received approval from state regulators to proceed with construction, the company said. The $3.6 billion project will place 1,000 turbines at several… Read More

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Check out these stories from POWER's September 2016 issue and its sister publications:

Attaqa Power Plant, Suez City, Egypt

Cane Run Generating Station Unit 7, Louisville, Kentucky

Chivasso Combined Cycle Power Plant, Turin, Italy

ETHYDCO Power Plant, Alexandria, Egypt

Linden Generating Station, Linden, New Jersey

Valley Power Plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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