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Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist, director of global energy economics and executive director (starting September 2015), International Energy Agency. Courtesy: IEA

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2. First out of the gate. Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority and was completed in 1936. It provides both flood control and power from two Francis turbines rated at a total 132 MW. Courtesy: TVA

1. Big on gas. The Lagoon Creek Combustion Turbine Plant in west Tennessee is one of TVA’s nine combustion turbine facilities and one of four combined cycle sites. The colocated units have a joint capacity of 1,444 MW, making the site TVA’s largest gas-fired facility. Courtesy: TVA

Bill Johnson, president and CEO, Tennessee Valley Authority. Courtesy: TVA

To achieve its goals for the future, the power sector in Turkey needs to leave the past behind.

When Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on May 6, 2015, the discussion ranged from recent meetings with Iranian leaders over their nuclear bomb-making capabilities to domestic energy infrastructure. Courtesy: Comedy Central

Roundtable discussion at the Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group meeting, April 20, 2015, co-located with the 2015 ELECTRIC POWER Conference & Exhibition in Rosemont, Ill. Source: POWER/Aaron Larson

Illustration of the proposed 32-acre nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico. (Courtesy Holtec International)

Community ownership. At the grand opening of the 496-kW Boulder Cowdery Meadows Community Solar Array in Boulder County, Colorado, project owners—representing residential, commercial, government, and nonprofit electricity customers—show their pride. Generation from the 2,016 panels is purchased by Xcel Energy. Courtesy: Clean Energy Collective

William M. Colton, VP of Corporate Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil Corp., gave a keynote presentation at the 2015 MIT Energy Conference: “The Outlook of Energy: A View to 2040.”

William A. Von Hoene Jr., Chief Strategy Officer, Exelon Corp., spoke at the 10th MIT Energy Conference on Feb. 28. Courtesy: POWER/Gail Reitenbach

Warner L. Baxter, CEO of Ameren Corp., offered several suggestions during his keynote presentation at the Energy, Utility & Environment Conference in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 16, intended to accomplish the goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed Clean Power Plan. Courtesy: POWER/Aaron Larson

The John L. Featherstone Geothermal Power Plant on the Salton Sea in California’s Imperial Valley. Courtesy: EnergySource

Achieving SunShot price goals will lead to increases in domestic deployment, but for solar to become ubiquitous, additional advancements are needed. Source: DOE

2015 POWER Generating Company Advisory Team: Melanie Green, Senior Director, Engineering & Technical Services, CPS Energy; Randal S. Livingston, Vice President of Power Generation, Pacific Gas & Electric; Sharon Pfeuffer, Director and Chief Engineer, Fossil Generation, DTE Energy; T. Preston Gillespie, Jr., Senior Vice President-Nuclear Operations, Duke Energy

Randal S. Livingston, Vice President of Power Generation, Pacific Gas & Electric

Sharon Pfeuffer, Director and Chief Engineer, Fossil Generation, DTE Energy

Melanie Green, Senior Director, Engineering & Technical Services, CPS Energy

T. Preston Gillespie, Jr., Senior Vice President-Nuclear Operations, Duke Energy

1. Reserve scenario. Blue bars represent business as usual (BAU); red bars represent energy imbalance market (EIM). The EIM reduces reserve targets by 35% to 46% on average. Source: NREL

Colette Honorable, Arkansas Public Service Commission president and former president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 16, 2014, to fill a vacant commissioner spot on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Photo courtesy Arkansas Public Service Commission)

5. SHP centers have flourished. Longshou hydropower station is located in Zhangye SHP base of Gansu Province in China. Taking the advantage of abundant water resources in Heihe Mainstream, there are eight SHP projects with a total installed capacity of more than 1 GW in Zhangye. Courtesy: Baidu Inc.

4. Grid access is lacking. The 110-kv substation in Guanyinyan project in Yunnan Province helps to connect small hydropower, improve the quality and reliability of power supply, and solve the bottleneck of local SHP development. Courtesy: Baidu Inc.

3. Innovation in small hydropower technologies is needed. The tubular turbine developed by Emeishan turbine factory in Sichuan Province is popular because of its characteristics of high efficiency and resistance to corrosion. Courtesy: Baidu Inc.

2. Installed hydropower capacity. Source: China Electricity Council (www.cec.org.cn/) and State Electricity Regulatory Commission (www.serc.gov.cn/)

1. Total installed capacity of small hydropower stations in China. Source: China Electricity Council (www.cec.org.cn/) and State Electricity Regulatory Commission (www.serc.gov.cn/)

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Experimental Breeder Reactor II. Source: Argonne National Laboratory