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What’s In a Name? A Truly Great Power Project
The Great Plains Power Station in Saskatchewan supports SaskPower’s effort to add generation capacity in support of the province’s rapidly growing industrial sector.
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India’s Largest Coal-Fired Plant Also Part of Country’s Energy Transition
The NTPC Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station, with an installed generation capacity of 4,783 MW, comprises 13 coal-fired units and includes solar and hydropower installations. The plant continues to implement advanced emission-control technologies as part of India’s broader decarbonization strategy.
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Award-Winning Cogeneration Project Turns Hydrogen-Rich Waste into Industrial Energy
In Brazil’s industrial heartland, a pioneering energy project has earned a POWER Top Plant award for turning hydrogen-rich waste into clean, reliable power. The Vesta Cogeneration Plant not only boosts
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Power Under Pressure: How a Gas-Fired Plant Has Helped Address Taiwan’s Energy Transition
Taiwan’s energy transition faces a unique challenge: powering its world-leading semiconductor industry while phasing out nuclear power and reducing coal dependence. Part of the solution emerged from an unlikely location—a former pineapple field in Tainan—where engineers built what has been recognized as a POWER Top Plant award-winning facility critical to the island’s energy future.
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Thailand’s Eight-Unit, 5,300-MW Power Project Wins Top Plant Award
Southeast Asia’s first-ever JAC gas turbines are now supplying power to Thailand’s grid. With efficiency greater than 64%, the eight units deployed—four each at the Sriracha Power Plant in Chonburi and the Pluak Daeng Power Plant in Rayong—are worthy recipients of a POWER Top Plant award.
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How Colorado’s Cabin Creek Hydro Plant Evolved from Coal Balancer to Renewable Grid Stabilizer
Xcel Energy’s comprehensive modernization of the Cabin Creek pumped-storage facility—featuring an innovative 11-blade turbine runner—earned the station a POWER Top Plant award. The retrofit project not
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Reclaimed Coal Mine Shines Spotlight on Innovative Solar System
A long-dormant coal mine waste site in Pennsylvania has new life, providing solar power to the local community thanks to a groundbreaking tracking system enabling installation across challenging terrain.
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Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for ERCOT
In just 12 months, Sage Geosystems and San Miguel Electric Cooperative built the world’s first pressure geothermal system. It is now poised to deliver long-duration, dispatchable storage for the Electric
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Solar by the Numbers: Midong Is China’s Latest Mega-Marvel
A solar power project in the Gobi Desert has moved the needle on the size and scope of global photovoltaic installations, aided by innovation in equipment and construction. The numbers tell much of the story
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Doubling Down on Reliability: Karachi’s Engineered Smart Grid Breakthrough
Faced with soaring demand and limited visibility into upstream grid assets, Karachi-based K-Electric engineered an in-house special protection system that delivers more than 600 MW of secure power imports to