Ten years ago, any self-respecting U.S. utility executive might have been drawn and quartered for publicly promoting a nuclear power revival. How times have changed. Today, more than half of…
Power
Monthly Issue | April 15, 2007
The visible consequences of sulfuric acid aerosol emissions—opaque stack emissions called "blue plumes"—are merely the tip of an iceberg. In sufficient concentration, SO3 also can increase corrosion and fouling of…
Npower plans big coal plant in UK Npower, the British generation subsidiary of German energy giant RWE, is planning to build a 1,600-MW supercritical coal-fired plant to replace an existing…
Most combustion turbine owners and operators hope that replacement parts will simply duplicate the performance and reliability of the original. That's not good enough for Eastern Technical Services (www.etspower.com), which…
April 1884 POWER reported on the latest offering from Philadelphia-based Southwark Foundry and Machine Co. (Figure 1) as its lead story. "This is a self-contained, high speed automatic cut-off engine.…
Daniel Yergin, founder and CEO of Cambridge Energy Associates (CERA), is among the best at connecting the dots of the energy industry's past and turning them into a coherent picture…
During the past year, the debate over the structure of the nation's electricity systems has continued at a steady clip. It seems that almost every month a new study or…
EMISSIONS CONTROL Control pollution and slagging on a shoestring A patented twist on an old technique, flue gas recirculation (FGR), helps prevent slagging in the upper furnace and convective pass.…
The debate over retail choice has resurfaced, triggering in the minds of many consumer advocates California's failed deregulation attempt and its fallout—rolling blackouts, bankrupt utilities, and government bailouts with…
At the Platts Third Annual Nuclear Conference in Washington this February, most of the several hundred participants were extremely enthusiastic about the long-stalled future of U.S. nuclear power. During the…