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The article offers information on the Oak Grove power plant in Texas, which has been constructed by Luminant power plant manufacturing company. The plant has been awarded the 2010 Plant of the Year by the magazine "Power." It is reported that, the company used twin oaks and forest grove plants to construct the plant, which has the capacity of 1,600 MW. The plant, as reported, has two different steam generators which have been melded and adopted into a single project.

Deals with the difficulty of keeping a coal-fired powerplant competitive and compliant. Reason for such difficulty; Information a controls approach applied by a Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. team to a supercritical plant in Texas in 1999; Development of a Powerclean system by Diamond Power.

The article features the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station in Glen Rose, Texas. It is the only nuclear power plant of Luminant, which has two 1,150-megawatt pressurized water reactors (PWRs) that went into service in April 1990 and April 1993. Bechtel Power Corp., its prime contractor, replaced four steam generators (SGs) and a reactor vessel head in its first unit during an outage that lasted for 55 days. Its containment structure around the nuclear steam supply was completed after its SGs were installed, and Bechtel reinforced bars and a clean concrete cut after hydro-demolition of the plant's containment alternate access.

The article offers information on Air Products & Chemicals Inc.'s Port Arthur II Integrated Hydrogen/Cogeneration Facility, a cogeneration plant. The plant is built adjacent to Valero Energy Corp's oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The cogeneration plant is integrated with combined-cycle generation technology and steam methane reformer (SMR) technology because of which it is able to simultaneously produce about 100 megawatt of electricity and steam. It is stated that the power plant has four major operating units.

The article presents information on the J.K. Spruce 2, Calaveras Power Station, located in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned and operated by CPS Energy, and is stated to be the cleanest coal-fired plants in the U.S. A discussion on CPS Energy's Strategic Energy Plan, plant's construction, equipment, operations and work processes, is presented.

The article reports on the recognition of the J.K. Spruce Power Plant of CPS Energy as the best large coal-fired power plant by the Electric Utility Cost Group (EUCG) Fossil Productivity Committee in San Antonio, Texas in 2008. It is remarkable that there are various companies that assure high safety operation and efficacy compliance but the power plant has excelled among them. Recognition is part of the EUCG's growing concern in motivating power generating companies to assure compliance with the laws and regulation.