Departments
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O&M
User Group Profile: Philippine Coal Plant Users’ Group
The Philippine Coal Plant Users’ Group (PCPUG), the leading nonprofit organization involved in generating electricity in the Philippines, recently held a conference introducing its mission and vision.
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Gas
Meeting LNG Demand with Floating Liquefaction Facilities
The past two years have seen a dramatic escalation of global natural gas liquefaction capacity.
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News
Abundance of Energy
President Obama’s Jan. 24 State of the Union address did not convince me that the nation should, in his words, “double down” on future clean energy investment. America’s abundance of oil and gas should be the foundation upon which to build a comprehensive national energy policy, not subsidies for government-favored energy technologies and overreaching energy regulations.
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News
Continuous Duty Industrial Vacuum
Manufacturer of heavy-duty industrial vacuums and vacuum systems VAC-U-MAX introduces its updated Model 1020 Continuous Duty Industrial Vacuum. The VAC-U-MAX Model 1020 features a powerful positive displacement pump designed specifically for high-volume recovery of up to 5 tons per hour. It is also used in the recovery of heavy materials, including steel shot, foundry sand, […]
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Coal
Plant of the Year Trophy Presented
The POWER Plant of the Year for 2011 was Kansas City Power & Light’s 850-MW Iatan 2, located about 30 miles northwest of Kansas City.
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Business
High-Temperature Superconductor Technology Stepped Up
A new project planned by RWE and partners Nexans, the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), and Jülich is poised to mark another milestone for high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable technology, which transports electricity without losses when cooled down to about –200C (–392F).
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Legal & Regulatory
Rethinking Security Requirements for Generation Developers
A universal reality for U.S. power generation developers is the challenge of obtaining funding in today’s tight credit markets.
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Gas
MHI Ships First Commercial J-Series Turbine
The first unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI’s) much-watched J-Series gas turbine, a technology MHI has been testing for a year, was shipped this December from its Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for commercial use at Himeji Unit 2, also in Hyogo, owned by Kansai Electric Power Co.
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Solar
Spain Inaugurates Two More Parabolic Trough Units
Two identical 50-MW parabolic trough plants with thermal storage in Cadiz, in the south of Spain, began operating this January.
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Gas
Desertec Ambitions Turn to Asia, Australia
The ambitious Desertec project—a $9 billion initiative to develop, harness, and transmit 2,000 MW of renewable power from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe by 2050—has been trumped by a vaster concept that spans Asia and Australia.