Editorial

William D. Magwood, IV is director-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Courtesy: NEA

GBR_ONTARIO_PWR_1114_sm Global Business Reports, Ontario’s Long Term Energy Plan in Action, November 2014

in October 2014, SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Unit 3 in Estevan, Saskatchewan, became the first coal-fired power plant to employ full-scale post-combustion carbon capture and sequestration. Courtesy: SaskPower

State of Colorado welcome sign. Courtesy: commons.wikimedia.org

3. The effects of strong wind output in Germany for the week of Feb. 13, 2014. Courtesy: Agora Energiewende

2. The merit order effect. Courtesy: Agora Energiewende

1. Where the sun does and doesn’t shine. Source: National Renewal Energy Laboratory

Texas and Germany flags. Source: POWER

Power British Columbia, a Global Business Report

2. Inside view. This screencapture shows part of the console that an operator would see when running a contemporary honeypot network. It shows the IP addresses that are generating the highest number of threats and the top ports being targeted. Courtesy: Modern Honey Network

1. Honeypot. This diagram shows the structure of an industrial honeypot network. Courtesy: Modern Honey Network

Sign at EPA hearing on Clean Power Plan, Denver, July 29, 2014. Source: POWER/Gail Reitenbach

Stacks of Xcel Energy’s coal- and gas-fired Valmont Generating Station in Boulder, Colorado. Courtesy: POWER/Gail Reitenbach

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Table 2. Assumptions for the economic comparison of lime and bicarbonate based FGT. Source: Dr. Peter Quicker, et al.

Distributed photovoltaic generation, Germany, July 2014. Courtesy: Bentham Paulos

Borrego Springs microgrid components. Operated by San Diego Gas & Electric.

Microgrid equipment at the National Wind Technology Center in Colorado. | Photo courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Lab.

SPIDERS microgrid program, Sandia National Laboratories

Hawaiian islands. Wikimedia Commons. Author Nick Roux, updated by Peter Fitzgerald

RWE AG Head of Group Strategy & Corporate Development Thomas Birr

EEI We Stand For Energy campaign

EEI’s We Stand For Energy advocacy campaign

2014 Women in Power Generation panel at ELECTRIC POWER, April 2, New Orleans

As many as 800 people attended the 2014 Platts Global Power Markets event in Las Vegas, April 7 to 9. Courtesy: Platts

Flower growing in a pile of bituminous Kentucky coal. Courtesy: Una Nowling

During IHS CERAWeek in Houston in early March, POWER Editor Gail Reitenbach sat down with Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO of GE Power & Water’s Water & Process Technologies, to ask him about several issues of concern to power plants.

Coal train, southern Colorado, Feb. 2014. Courtesy: Gail Reitenbach

A metallic case called a hohlraum holds the fuel capsule for NIF experiments. Target handling systems precisely position the target and freeze it to cryogenic temperatures (18 kelvins, or -427 degrees Fahrenheit) so that a fusion reaction is more easily achieved. Photo by Eduard Dewald/LLNL

Wind turbines, southern Colorado, September 2013. Source: POWER, Gail Reitenbach