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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
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Legal & Regulatory
The New Environment for the Gas and Electric Industries
By Kelly A. DalyFERC Moves on Natural Gas–Electric CoordinationBy Kelly A. DalyNatural gas–fired power generation has increased significantly in recent years. This trend generally is considered a positive
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Renewables
NREL: Cost Gap for Wind and Solar Could Diminish without Subsidies in West by 2025
A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests wind and solar generation could become cost-effective without federal subsidies if they are sited in the most productive locations. “It is too early to say how strong the post-2025 market for renewables will be or whether it will be primarily market-driven or policy-driven. In […]