The recent restart of Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's) Brown's Ferry Unit 1 following a five-year renovation brings to 104 the number of nuclear plants operating in the U.S. Their 100…
Power
Monthly Issue | September 15, 2007
The typical multi-plant utility spends millions of dollars a year on bleach, bromide, and other biocides to keep heat-exchange surfaces clean and to control biofouling in cooling systems. Proper use…
Constellation files partial COL Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group has dipped its big toe into the nuclear regulatory licensing waters, testing the temperature for a third unit at its 1,165-MW Calvert…
More than a decade ago, POWER published a landmark special report, “Information Technology for Powerplant Management,” that documented how plants were beginning to use powerful software applications to improve their…
ASSET MANAGEMENT Replace pumps, cut repair bills The original design of Progress Energy's Lee Plant in Goldsboro, N.C., enlisted nine vertical sump pumps within the plant yard as drain pumps. In…
September 1886 Four years after this magazine was launched, the editors reviewed the latest improvements to industrial boilers, beginning with the Backus furnace (Figure 1). 1. The Backus furnace. “This…
While elected officials in Washington debate the politics of climate change, state legislators and regulators have been busy putting in place programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For the most…
Not long ago, most utility investors considered California's electricity policies too iconoclastic to support. Driven by far-left environmentalists and overzealous regulators, those policies have made it nearly impossible to build…
The island Kingdom of Bahrain is unique in the Middle East. Its oil production is minimal, compared with that of its neighbors, even though Bahrain was the first Gulf state…
Given the relatively long product life cycles in this industry, tracking the progress of a new gas turbine from its design through testing and first installation takes endurance. But in…