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Gas
Top Plant: Combined Cycle Power Plant Brazi, Brazi, Romania
Owner/operator: OMV Petrom S.A. Romania began the process of restructuring its vertically integrated, state-owned electricity industry to meet European Union (EU) directives several years before it joined the
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Gas
Top Plant: Cape Canaveral Next Generation Clean Energy Center, Brevard County, Florida
Owner/operator: Florida Power & Light No one can accuse Florida Power & Light (FPL) of having anything against natural gas. The biggest consumer of gas in a state with the second-biggest appetite for
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Gas
Top Plant: Sasol Gas Engine Power Plant, Sasolburg, South Africa
Once flush with cheap electricity, the Republic of South Africa has recently been beset by power shortages and reliability challenges as a result of decades of underinvestment in its electrical infrastructure
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Gas
Top Plant: Southcentral Power Project, Anchorage, Alaska
Owners: Chugach Electric Association Inc. and Anchorage Municipal Light & PowerOperator: Chugach Electric Association Inc. Alaska’s vast land mass broken up by mountainous regions and glacier fields does
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Instrumentation & Controls
Quantum Cryptography Promises Un-Hackable Industrial Communications
Cybersecurity awareness and best practices are increasingly central to the power generation, transmission, and distribution industry. Industrial cybersecurity concerns, recently heightened by awareness of how
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Instrumentation & Controls
What You Need to Know (and Don’t) About the AURORA Vulnerability
Perhaps because the public has been more obsessed in recent years by cybersecurity breaches involving everything from social media accounts to classified military secrets, the amount of attention given to the
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Nuclear
SILEX Process Promises Third-Generation Uranium Enrichment Technology for U.S.
On Sept. 25, 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a construction and operating license (COL) to General Electric-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment LLC (GLE) for its uranium enrichment plant
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Gas
Hints of What’s Next from GE on the Technology Front
When Gary Leonard, General Electric’s global technology director for aero-thermal and mechanical systems technologies, spoke with POWER Contributing Editor Mark Axford at this year’s Gulf Coast Power
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T&D
Potential Solutions for ERCOT’s Challenges
P at Wood III —former head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Texas Public Utility Commission, and current consultant and non-executive chairman of Dynegy—addressed a packed house at the
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Business
New Products (September 2013)
HDE’s Quick-Check Transformer & Capacitor Testers provide a quick and easy test of the primary and secondary sides of de-energized transformers and capacitors for opens or shorts. The Quick-Check