Owner/operator: AGL Energy/Malakoff Corporation Berhad Fully commissioned in January 2013, the 420-MW Macarthur Wind Farm is the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere. But sourcing and erecting 140 wind…
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Owners/operators: Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development Sempra U.S. Gas & Power’s jointly owned Mesquite Solar 1 project added 150 MW of photovoltaic-generated electricity to the grid…
Owner/operator: GDF SUEZ Energy Poland When Gérard Mestrallet, chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, set a target of doubling the company’s renewable energy capacity from 2007 to 2013, it seemed…
Owner/operator: Shams Power Co. The Arabian Peninsula might seem like the ideal location for a concentrating solar power plant, but developers of the 100-MW Shams 1 CSP project in the…
Bringing four units back online and extending the life of four sister units has made the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station the largest operating nuclear plant in the world. The investments…
Adding nuclear capacity doesn’t require constructing a new plant. A few aging plants are in the process of retirement, but much of that capacity will be replaced with new plants…
Nuclear plant steam generator replacements are difficult in the best of circumstances. Entergy had to face component delays, staffing shortages, and even a hurricane while upgrading its Waterford 3 plant.…
Owner/operator: Prairie State Generating Co., LLC The 1,600-MW Prairie State Energy Campus uses the latest coal technology to burn Illinois coal from the Lively Grove mine, located adjacent to the…
Owner/operator: Shenhua Guoneng Energy Group Corp. Ltd. A modern coal-fired power plant may operate with a thermal efficiency of 40% to 45%, which means that 55% to 60% of the…
Owner/operator: Duke Energy With a mandate to cut emissions, improve efficiency, and increase output, Duke set out to replace the four World War II–era units at Cliffside Steam Station with…