This September, as Siemens Energy wrapped up testing of its H-class SGT5-8000H gas turbine at E.ON’s Irsching 4 gas power plant in Bavaria, Germany, the company raved about what it…
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Monthly Issue | December 1, 2009
Steam and water heated by Earth’s crust have long been used for cooking and bathing, but it was not until the early 20th century that geothermal energy was harnessed for…
Owner: Sempra Generation Operator: First Solar Inc. Sempra Generation has conjured up a market plan for producing merchant photovoltaic (PV) power that is inspired. Working with First Solar, Sempra has…
News items of interest to power industry professionals. Wärtsilä Wins Contract for Italian Biofuel Power Plant. Wärtsilä said on Oct. 21 that it had been contracted to supply the engineering…
Argentina has set out to complete Atucha II, a nuclear reactor it started building in 1981 and abandoned when it was 81% complete, owing to financial problems. If all goes…
Owners and Operators: Dominion and BP Wind Energy The tractors and combines on Indiana’s farms are getting some competition from a new harvesting technology — powerful turbines that harvest wind.…
A fiberglass-reinforced plastic FRP/Halar stack liner was installed at Vattenfall’s 300-MW Unit 2 at the Nordjylland Power Station in 1995. The 112-meter-high (367-ft) stack, protected from corrosion by the ECTFE…
A £4.4 million grant by the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) this September to Clipper Windpower’s Britannia project kicked up a whirlwind of interest in the supersized…
Owner: The Harrisburg Authority Operator: Covanta Harrisburg Inc. After decades of struggling with serious air contamination issues and large financial losses, this Pennsylvania waste-to-energy facility, which was built in 1972,…
The ATL-5000 — a new, fully automated water jet system from NLB Corp. — cleans tube bundles three times faster than manual methods and features an adjustable lance stroke that…