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Recent predictions suggest that the U.S. electric industry will invest $300 billion in new transmission and distribution (T&D) facilities (including advanced meters) over the next decade, and $400 billion in [...]

The Shuaibah independent water and power project (IWPP) was hailed as a landmark for the Gulf utilities sector when project agreements were signed late last year. Not only was the [...]

Decades of stagnation in power plant investment in Germany appear to have been penetrated by the provisional start on construction of a two unit 2200 MWe lignite fuelled power station [...]

One of the more impressive international projects in recent years has been the 225-km natural gas pipeline and associated power plant that was developed for the East African nation of [...]

Officially opened in July 2002, the San Roque power plant was the first KA26-1 combined cycle plant to enter commercial operation in Spain. The 800 MW plant, located in Cadiz [...]

Each of the three units at the Oconee nuclear plant--located near Seneca, South Carolina--is a two-loop PWR with two once through steam generators (OTSGs), designed and manufactured by Babcock & [...]

Pity the poor Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). With its market crusade out of favor, and transmission reform suddenly suspect after the Aug. 14 blackout, it could use a new [...]

Gaz de France's 800 MWe DK6 plant in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), northern France, adjacent to Arcelor group's Sollac Atlantique steelworks, can be considered France's first large combined cycle gas turbine IPP [...]

The construction and integration of the api Energia gasification combined cycle power plant with the refinery in Falconara Marittima, Italy, may provide the needed power necessity in the area. The consolidation of the gasification combined cycle power plant and the refinery may yield various advantages. These advantages include the power-production efficiency of the plant and the alternative usage of refinery residues such as sulphur heavy oil., The api Energia integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant being built at Falconara Marittima, on Italy's Adriatic coast, is one of the three IGCC plants under construction in Italy following [...]

FROM COMPONENT FABRICATION TO OVERALL PLANT DESIGN, MODULARIZATION IS BEING USED TO CUT COSTS AND ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULES. Power plants are somewhat like snowflakes. There are no two alike. Traditionally, [...]

Power Senoko Ltd successfully converted its Senoko gas turbine power plant into a combined cycle station through proper project management. The new facility featured four Siemens V94.2 gas turbines. The conversion process required proper coordination in equipment storage, dispatching and handling. Power generation outage was minimized by running the gas turbines while the other turbines were built., Earlier this year saw Singapore utility Power Senoko Ltd. take its first combined cycle power plant into full operation. The project, which is a conversion of an existing gas turbine [...]

An independent panel of judges has chosen an electric power plant project in the United States and two projects in Asia to receive Power Engineering (PE) and Power Engineering International [...]

The huge multi-unit electric power station at Trombay, India, owned by Tata Electric Companies, has supplemented its capacity by an advanced 205 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant. This unit will utilize the infrastructure of three 62.5 MW units which have been built in 1955 and are now decommissioned. The unit utilizes a single Siemens V94.2 gas turbine and a Siemens single-casing model steam turbine in a two-shaft configuration., The large power station at Trombay, near Bombay, has recently added 205 MW of combined cycle power to its capacity. The owner, Tata Electric Companies (TEC), has a long history [...]

Deregulation of the U.S. market, beginning with the passage of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) in 1978 fundamentally changed the dynamics of the domestic power industry. Coupled with [...]

The growing demand for electric power in Malaysia has forced independent power producers to construct new power plants. One such plant is the Kuala Langat power station, an electric power generating facility owned and operated by Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd. near Kuala Lumpur. The plant has a combined cycle of 667 MW net power ad an overall power output of 710 MW. It uses three 145 MW ABB GT13E2 gas turbosets and a 248 MW ABB steam turbine., A number of independent power producers (IPPs) are developing projects to help meet Malaysia's electricity demand - a demand which is growing by more than 8 percent per year. One [...]

Engineers at Atlantic Electric Co. are delighted over their experience thus far with a recent cooling tower fill retrofit at the company's B. L. England Station, Unit 3. That's what [...]

A list of companies that offer electric power plant design, engineering and construction services is presented. The list includes Bechtel Power Corp., Cogentrix Energy Inc. and Air Products and Chemicals Inc.

Experience gained from simulating and reconstructing a condensate piping event will be used by Consolidated Edison to analyze control system problems Modern systems engineering design philosophy encourages design and control [...]

The Yelahanka power station began operating in 1984. Located 15 km north of the Indian city of Bangalore, the station first utilized medium speed diesel during its first phase of operation. The second phase brought in six 18PC4-2B generator sets. The 120 MW station serves the Bangalore, capital of Karnataka, an industrial city with a population of four million., The Yelahanka power station is located about 15 km north of Bangalore, capital city of the state of Karnataka, in southern India. Using six 18 Cylinder, vee configuration SEMT Pielstick [...]

For the past 10 years, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has conducted R&D programs to develop better designs and materials for fossil fuel power plants. Sargent & Lundy, under [...]

The newest information on electric-utility plants that are planned or under construction is provided from an annual utility survey. The survey results are reported according to size, region and projected peak summer generating capacity.

Wartsila has supplied a 49 megawatt captive power plant to Al Katrana Cement Company to provide a secure, uninterrupted electricity supply to its cement plant in Al Katrana, Jordan. The power plant could handle the impact load of the large electrical motors to drive the cement kilns. Other details of the contract are discussed.

Power is to economies what food is to the body. Without sufficient amounts of it, growth is stunted and the organism is weak. The discovery and application of power is [...]

Byline: _ The government of Pakistan has focused on developing the LNG system for power generation purposes in the country as the LNG system would be helpful in producing the [...]

Gas turbines, hydro continue strong in new utility plant mix Quick-fix gas turbines help utilities face peaking power shortages, but baseload capacity construction lags The emphasis in utility power plant [...]

The 6-ft.-high steel wellhead jutting up from a weedy field next to the R.E. Burger coal-fired power plant in eastern Ohio doesn't look momentous. If anything, it resembles a supersize [...]

Technology trends in large power plants In general, consumption of electricity has increased faster than consumption of primary energy. In the Federal Republic of Germany as well as in other [...]

Hundreds of new U.S. power plants are planned in the next few years. They include coal-fired, gas-fired, a solar electric power plant in Nevada and others fueled by renewable resources. […]

Iraq's electrical sector still struggles to keep the power on and efforts to add progress to the sector are hindered by insurgents, fuel shortages and operator training issues. Reconstruction is doable and Iraq's Ministry of Electricity is focusing on critical projects that would succeed quickly, canceling others with longer payback time.

With synchronisation to the grid in November 2004 and attainment of commercial operation on 1 March 2005, the 450 MW (net) Genesee 3 unit, is Canada's first supercritical coal fired [...]

On April 3, 1992, the Fifth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress passed the Resolution on Construction of the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River. The project is [...]

In early 2003, construction started on a power plant at the Jana landfill site near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Just one year on, in February 2004, the plant was commissioned and [...]

Construction is now well underway on the Koln-Niehl combined cycle/district heating power plant in the heart of the ancient cathedral city of Cologne in Nordrhein Westfalen. On 24 June 2003 [...]

Byline: STAFF REPORTS ISLAMABAD -- USAID and Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) have inaugurated the Power Distribution Control Center (PDCC) at the IESCO headquarters, Islamabad, in order to mark a [...]

There was an explosion of merchant plant project announcements in 1998, and there are now more than 50,000 MW of merchant power in development or under construction in this country. [...]