MISO

Combined Cycle

Southern Power is selling the Mankato Energy Center to Xcel Energy for $650 million.

Gas

Capstone’s C600 Signature Series stand-alone microturbine will run all electric power equipment at a remote and unmanned compressor station while running on locally available high-pressure natural gas.

Gas

Starwood is acquiring the 325-MW combined cycle Garrison Energy Center in Delaware and the 503-MW RockGen Energy Center peaker facility in Wisconsin.

Cogeneration

The C200 systems will be installed at an energy drink manufacturer where the thermal energy will be used to create steam for the manufacturing process, and the two C65s will be installed at a produce packager where the exhaust will be used to create chilled water used in the vegetable packaging process.

Gas

To understand how to approach the power gen dilemma, it is illustrative to look at the city of Lebanon, Ohio. Lebanon’s municipal utility illustrates both the opportunities and the challenges presented by today’s power markets.

Combined Cycle

In order to accomplish this successfully, generation assets have to increase their flexibility to a level that pushes, and in most cases exceeds the capabilities of an individual technology. This is where the synergy of generation…or the SynerGen concept is born.

Renewables

Plans call for 175 450-foot-tall wind turbines on land in Adair and Schuyler counties….

Coal

The eight plants studied by the report have a combined capacity of 5,862 MW….

Biomass

Among the “…vastly different circumstances” that Russell Ray mentions in his opinion piece in the January 2018 edition of Power Engineering are dozens of exis…

Coal

News from around the power generation industry….

Energy Storage

The United States electric energy sector that includes utilities, independent power producers, public power authorities, renewable developers etc. has been trad…

Instrumentation & Controls

Another 77 percent of utility executives indicated the growth of Internet of Things devices are a potential threat to cybersecurity….

Gas

In their search for reliable, flexible, low-cost sources of power, investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities and rural cooperatives have varying pressures a…

Energy Storage

The company said its new system is one of the few in the nation capable of serving paying customer loads on a utility distribution feeder….

Combined Cycle

The utility fired the 495-MW combined-cycle power plant at the Grand River Energy Center in Oklahoma on the first attempt….