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Renewables
Repowering Project Renews Company’s Commitment to Sustainability
Shell Energy upgraded a Texas wind farm to produce more power with fewer turbines, a project that showcased repurposing of old materials with new technology to enhance efficiency, reliability, and safety
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Renewables
Solar-Plus-Storage Project Brings New Energy to California
Clearway Energy’s Daggett Solar + Storage power plant in San Bernardino County is a model for producing renewable energy, and taking advantage of existing infrastructure, at the site of a closed thermal
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Hydro
Jinzhai Pumped-Storage Hydro Facility Helps Integrate Renewable Energy and Solve Grid Stability Challenges
Pumped-storage hydropower is seen as a key technology in China to balance the grid and store excess energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar. The 1.2-GW Jinzhai pumped-storage project is a model
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Distributed Energy
Peak Performance: APS’s Virtual Power Plant Saves Big During Brutal Heatwave
Through its innovative virtual power plant (VPP), Arizona Public Service (APS) harnessed smart home devices to save 138 MW during a historic heatwave, shifting peak demand and proving critical for grid
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Renewables
A Refined Approach to Onsite Power Generation
The Pine Bend refinery in Minnesota added a 45-MW solar power array to support the facility’s supply of electricity, reaping the benefits of reduced costs, lower emissions, and more. Owners of commercial and
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T&D
Viking Link: The Epic Build of the World’s Longest Onshore and Subsea HVDC Interconnector
A marvel of modern engineering, Viking Link—the world’s longest onshore and subsea interconnector—began commercial operations in December 2023. The project garners POWER’s inaugural Transmission and
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Morrow Reinvented: HL-Class Gas Turbine Powers a Coal Plant’s Rebirth
The Morrow Repower Project, winner of POWER’s 2024 Reinvention Award, exemplified a strategic coal-to-gas conversion at a brownfield site that masterfully combined cutting-edge advanced technology with a
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Hydrogen
Efficiency in Production at Heart of Bloom Technology
Decarbonization of power generation and other industrial sectors relies on hydrogen, and a Bloom Energy demonstration project is supporting the fuel’s production through an advanced electrolyzer system. The
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Top Plant
2023 POWER Top Plant Award Winners
Renewables See our September 2023 issue for stories covering these plants: Gerlos 1 hydropower facility in Austria Mount Olive solar project in New Jersey Tyligulska wind power plant in Ukraine Fossil Fueled Including Gas and Coal See our October 2023 issue for stories covering these plants: Brentwood Power Station on Long Island in Suffolk County, […]
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Nuclear
America’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Makes a Landmark Revival
Entergy’s Grand Gulf 1—the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the U.S.—has thrived for four decades by cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, achieving record-breaking performance