I was talking with a utility executive the other day about his recent vacation in India. It’s certainly not your usual holiday destination, but he’s the adventurous type, eager to…
Power
Monthly Issue | February 15, 2008
Chances are good that legislation to “cap and auction” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will become law as early as 2009. While many environmentalists, utilities, and energy companies agree that cap…
FutureGen picks Mattoon, Ill. In mid-December, members of the FutureGen for Illinois taskforce, elected officials, local residents, and Governor Rod R. Blagojevich (D) celebrated the FutureGen Industrial Alliance’s decision to…
MANAGEMENT Survey captures industry's carbon concerns Black & Veatch recently published 2007 Strategic Directions in the Electric Utility Industry Survey: The Changing Climate in the Electric Utility Industry, which reports…
Given a chance to make a positive change in California’s wholesale generation market, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in December opted instead to maintain the state’s existing “hybrid” market…
Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Shawnee Fossil Plant sits on 2,696 acres on the south bank of the Ohio River about 10 miles northwest of Paducah, Kentucky. The plant is a…
The EUCG (formerly Electric Utility Cost Group) annual Best Performer awards were presented at the group’s fall 2007 meeting in Denver, where Alliant Energy swept the top awards. The three-unit,…
King Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse, Italy, in the 4th century B.C., invited his courtier Damocles to exchange places with him for a day. While enjoying a feast, Damocles immediately…
In recent years, U.S. utilities have shown increasing interest in deploying new coal-fired power plants based on advanced technologies such as integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC), ultrasupercritical pulverized coal (USC PC)…
This maintenance staffing study is the third in a series of plant staffing benchmarking studies published in POWER. The first, in the September 2004 issue, was on plant operator staffing;…