PE Volume 122 Issue 6

O&M

Rawhide Energy Station discusses the value of the simulator from both an operation and an engineering perspective and how it is helping to drive consistency, cultural change and continuous operational improvement.

Energy Storage

By 2020, analysts expect bandwidth demands from online streaming services to have grown even larger. In the face of this rising demand, utilities must accept the changes to provide reduced costs and risks to ratepayers.

Combined Cycle

Thermal power plant protocols for upgrading turbine-generator units specify guidelines for controlling humidity when the unit’s internal components are exposed during maintenance.

Batteries

Why are there not more battery energy storage systems being installed? At the current rate of growth, getting from 622 MW to 27 GW in eight years appears to be an impossibility.

Issues

New Projects – Nuclear

Japan’s government proposed an energy plan last month that sets ambitious targets for nuclear energy use in the coming decade despite challenges after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Hydroelectric

SUB SAHARAN Africa’s power generation sector is expanding at an astonishing rate, and there has never been a better time for American companies to participate…

Instrumentation & Controls

Designing a cyber security compliance program for electric transmission substations and power generating plants brings unique technical, geographical and person…

Batteries

Both behind the meter and front-of-the-meter areas are growing, and by 2019, the US market for energy storage should exceed $1.2B, according to GTM and the Ener…

Coal

News from across the power generation industry….