PE Volume 122 Issue 3

Tesla plans to triple the volume of its energy deployments this year compared to last year.

Water conveyance for hydropower in the high mountains of the Andes is often a technical challenge and, in many cases, can result in greater construction costs. One company successfully designed a hydropower project that overcame these challenges with a steel penstock installation and other innovative engineering technologies.

Even minor traces of chloride, sulfate, and sodium hydroxide can cause severe problems in steam systems, and especially turbines. In the case of sodium hydroxide, stress corrosion cracking of turbine blades and rotors may occur very rapidly.

Power producers require a practical plan for analyzing and optimizing a plant’s water usage and minimizing its wastewater production. This article explores the challenges created by new regulations, limited water resources and new priorities and standards.

Wisconsin Energy invested US$3b in new power plants with a total capacity of 2,800 MW, US$1.3 billion to upgrade existing power plants and US$2.7 billion to upgrade the distribution system.