POWER
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O&M
Day & Zimmermann Focuses on Flexibility
Now more than ever, we see the U.S. power market sharply focused on maximizing return on investment. We see power producers responding to economic uncertainty, high costs for new emission controls, and a
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Commentary
Burns & McDonnell Sees U.S. Market in Transition While Asian Market Grows
The U.S. power generation market is experiencing a unique set of transitional drivers, the biggest being the current economics within the energy market. U.S. Market Drivers A significant portion of the U.S
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Legal & Regulatory
Europe Faces Capacity and Cost Challenges in 2014
This is expected to be the year when modest economic growth at last returns to a recession-hit Europe. Recent depressed power demand from industry has already allowed the 27 countries of the European Union
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Gas
Shale: The Rock That Rocked the World
In the early 1980s, a man named George Mitchell, who owned an independent oil and gas company in Houston, began to see a distressing trend in his company’s future. Mitchell Energy supplied natural gas to a
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Coal
TransAlta’s Centralia Plant Earns PRBCUG Award
The Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group (PRBCUG) recognized TransAlta’s two-unit, 1,340-MW Centralia Complex with its 2013 Plant of the Year (Large Plant category) award at its 2013 Annual Meeting
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Renewables
A Novel Solar-Fossil Hybrid Power Plant
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is developing a promising solar-fossil hybrid power system for integration with a conventional combined-cycle power plant. The hybrid system uses concentrated
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Coal
Future of Australia’s Carbon Pricing Scheme Hangs in the Balance
Australia’s freshly elected prime minister, Tony Abbott, introduced a bill in November to scrap the nation’s controversial carbon pricing plan, which is slated to transition to an emissions trading scheme
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Nuclear
Milestones for Major Nuclear Projects
Several new nuclear plant construction milestones were recorded worldwide in October and November. CPR-1000. On Nov. 23, China’s 18th large reactor, Hongyanhe 2, was connected to the grid. The $8.2 billion
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Waste to Energy
Polaniec Green Unit, Polaniec, Poland
Owner/operator: GDF SUEZ Energy Poland Historically, Poland has relied heavily on coal for electricity generation. International Energy Agency statistics show that coal generation accounted for 86.5% of total