In This Issue
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O&MSigns of Aging in Boilers
All power plant equipment has a limited lifetime, but not all components age at the same rate. Some equipment may outlast the useful life of a plant, while other machinery may be replaced more than once
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RenewablesWhat Is the Future of Independent Power?
Merchant markets for independent power producers in the U.S. are unfavorable, and many companies in the sector have slumping profits—even big losses—as they ponder where to go in the months and years
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Press ReleasesEquipment Showcase: Instrumentation and Control
The equipment showcase section includes products from a variety of vendors that serve the power generation industry. POWER magazine will feature a different power-related equipment category in several issues
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RenewablesIndia’s Ongoing Power Generation Course Correction
It is estimated that nearly 240 million Indians currently do not have access to electricity. In many cases that also means a lack of access to adequate health care or educational opportunities. It is no
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GasEfficiency Improvements Mark Advances in Gas Turbines
Engineers from several companies have worked on upgrades to the technology, including designs that emphasize faster starts, quicker ramp-ups, increased efficiency, and better performance in a tight global
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CommentaryHope in the New Year: Opportunities Abound for the Power Industry
There are challenges facing the power industry in 2018, but there are also a lot of exciting opportunities. Renewable energy and gas-fired generation are expected to continue growing, but changes in federal
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Connected PlantSeven Software Tools for Energy Managers
There are many tools available to assist companies as they gain a better grasp on how their energy is being used, and what that means for the goal of efficient energy management. Not all solutions are created
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CommentaryHow to Build a Regulator-Approved Beneficial Electrification Program
Utilities across the U.S. are aware of beneficial electrification (BE) programs, but wide adoption has been held up by uncertainty about their potential and broader role in the evolving regulated utility
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IIOT PowerOvercoming IIoT, Edge Networking Challenges
As power plants and substations become more connected, the need for rugged networking equipment built to withstand tough conditions is amplified. The military has already gone through the growing pains, so
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Legal & RegulatoryUpdates to California’s Proposition 65 Warnings Will Affect Oil Industry Nationwide
Despite recent regulatory reforms relieving the oil industry of certain federal requirements, many oil and gas companies, refineries, and pipeline facilities operating in California are not immune from state regulatory requirements, including some new regulations that become effective August 30, 2018. Even if companies think they are in compliance, they should check again to make […]
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O&MCollaboration and Innovation Drive Retrofit Success at Plant Barry
The James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, both a coal-fired and natural gas-fired facility in Bucks, Alabama, sits on the west bank of the Mobile River. The facility’s coal is delivered via the river
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CommentaryGas Power Generation Thrives, Turbine Manufacturers Struggle
The amount of electricity produced by gas-fired power generation has been increasing steadily in the U.S. for more than 25 years. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that in 1990 about 372.8
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Legal & RegulatoryEurope’s Power Generation Industry Evolves
The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon-neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels. Indeed, the newly released European Environment Agency’s (EEA’s) Trends […]
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Legal & RegulatoryCould Dispute Resolution Boards Keep Combined Cycle Projects on Schedule?
Owners and contractors can run into contractual disputes during combined cycle construction projects. Often, the disagreements snowball into lawsuits, which create a lot of activity in attorney offices, but can actually stop activity at the construction site. Engineers and laborers frequently end up taking off their hard hats and setting down their welding torches to […]
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Legal & RegulatoryThe Big Picture: Energy Transitions [INFOGRAPHIC]
An energy transition is underway across the world. Market upheaval, defining events, and recent policy changes have accelerated a shift away from coal toward renewables. Here is how this transformation played out for some of the world’s major economies over the past decade. Graphs show percent of each fuel source of total generation for that […]
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Legal & RegulatoryTesla Bet and Delivered 100-MW/129-MWh Energy Storage System Within 100 Days
The project to build one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage systems started out as a bet—on Twitter. Last March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted to Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes
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Legal & RegulatoryMore Countries Banking on Competitive Auctions Over Subsidies to Stimulate Renewables
News about the rate at which new renewable power capacity is being added to grids around the world has been overshadowed by a remarkable trend that could revolutionize the renewables sector. Over the past few
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RenewablesPOWER Digest [January 2018]
Construction Underway on New Unit at Serbian Coal Plant. It has been almost 30 years since any new power generation capacity was built in Serbia, but that stretch is coming to an end as China Machinery and
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Legal & RegulatorySpanish Government Takes Steps to Support Coal-fired Generation
Iberdrola’s global strategy to close its remaining coal-fired power plants has met with government opposition in its home country of Spain. Days after Iberdrola, the country’s largest utility, said it
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Legal & RegulatoryA Bird’s-Eye View: Drones in the Power Sector
Unmanned aerial systems—drones—have quickly found their place in the power sector. But as the industry moves out of test cases and experiments, and into full implementation of drones, it is facing a whole
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Legal & RegulatoryIEA Predicts End of Coal’s Heyday
In the next 25 years, the world will turn increasingly to renewables and natural gas to meet energy demand, turning away from coal, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) World Energy