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O&M
Parts Exchange Program Saves Money, Keeps Xcel’s Turbine Fleet Spinning
Keeping combustion turbines spinning at power plants across Xcel Energy’s service territory is critical to maintaining reliability and minimizing costs. One of the challenges to meeting that goal is
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Legal & Regulatory
Renewable Power in Southeast Asia: Will the Legal Regime Catch Up with the Opportunities?
Southeast Asia offers rich renewable sector opportunities, recently exemplified by Chevron’s multibillion-dollar sale of its Indonesian and Philippines geothermal projects, and the purchase of Equis Energy
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Renewables
Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm Releases Community from Decades of Diesel
In the early morning of May 1, 2017, Block Island, Rhode Island, shut off the diesel generators that had powered the island for nearly a century. The lights on the island flickered off before turning back on
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Renewables
Anesco Celebrates Subsidy-Free Solar
On September 26, 2017, UK Climate Change Minister Claire Perry marched across a slightly muddy field to a 10-MW solar farm built by British renewable energy developer Anesco. The high-profile visit included a
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Renewables
China’s Renewables Strategy Shines in Massive Solar Park
The Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, part of a hydro-solar integration in the high desert on the Tibetan Plateau, has helped the country move toward its ambitious targets for increasing generation from cleaner fuel
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Renewables
Sarulla, One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Power Projects, Comes Alive with Private Finance
The 330-MW Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant in Indonesia took decades to develop. Backed by a multinational financing effort along with support from the Indonesian government, the $1.6 billion project may be on
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Renewables
Willow Island Hydro: A Small but Mighty Marvel on the Ohio River
Successfully designing and constructing a hydropower plant, while accounting for site space constraints and not disrupting commercial traffic on a busy waterway, presented challenges for a Midwestern utility
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Connected Plant
Reducing Nuclear Plant Operations and Maintenance Costs Through Online Monitoring
The Electric Power Research Institute’s full spectrum of online monitoring-related research offers nuclear power plant operators guidance for monitoring program implementation. The research results are used
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IIOT Power
Solar Power’s Golden Opportunity: Connected Tech
The solar industry has the opportunity to integrate intelligent technology, including some that was originally developed for conventional energy resources, into its solar systems. Most parts of a solar farm
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Commentary
Rescinding Clean Power Plan a Positive Step Toward Free Market for Electricity
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early October announced it would rescind yet another signature Obama administration policy: the electricity regulation known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP). As with