In This Issue
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O&MInspecting Aberrant P91 Components for Integrity
Many utilities around the world have been discovering abnormal or aberrant P91 base and weld metal microstructures in their plants, leading to, or with a potential to lead to, early cracking and failure in
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RenewablesTop Plant: Agua Caliente Solar Project, Yuma County, Arizona
The western Arizona desert has become a popular location for constructing large solar projects. The sunshine is plentiful and there are large tracts of non-prime farmland available that make building
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RenewablesTop Plant: Ashta Hydropower Plant, Shkoder, Albania
Like many small countries, Albania is dependent on a specific generation type for the majority of its electricity. In the case of this mountainous nation of 3 million people, it’s hydropower. Roughly 98% of
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RenewablesTop Plant: Hometown BioEnergy, Le Sueur, Minnesota
We’ve all heard the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Hometown BioEnergy (HTBE) offers a case in point. The plant uses vegetable-processing waste and livestock manure in an
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RenewablesTop Plant: London Array Offshore Wind Farm, Outer Thames Estuary, UK
In 2001, the year that the world’s largest offshore wind farm was conceived, the outlook for offshore wind was foggy. A paltry 95 MW of capacity had been installed worldwide—mostly in Denmark—and a
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RenewablesTop Plant: Solana Generating Station, Maricopa County, Arizona
The Solana Generating Station ( solana in Spanish means “sunny spot”) is built on a 1,920-acre site near Gila Bend, about an hour’s drive west of Phoenix. According to Abengoa, which owns the facility
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O&MWind Turbine Generator Maintenance: What to Expect and Why
Over the past few years, wind generation projects have become prominent features of the North American landscape and of the utility infrastructure. In spite of their variable production load onto the grid
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O&MCoal-Fired Power Plant Heat Rate Improvement Options, Part 2
In recent years several EPRI projects have explored different aspects of heat rate improvements. This article, following Part 1 in the November 2014 issue of POWER , reviews results of implementing heat rate
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Nuclear
Nuclear Power’s Present and Future
William D. Magwood, IV, formerly head of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and commissioner at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and current director-general of the Organisation
