Credit to Author: Drew Robb| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:16:36 +0000
Simple cycle gas turbines provide efficiency levels of around 35% to 40%. Combined cycle units boost efficiency to 60% and beyond. But another option is emerging that combines the attributes […]
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Credit to Author: Drew Robb| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:56:25 +0000
Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:03:23 +0000
In 2018, Cooperative Energy, a generation and transmission co-op headquartered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, had an issue to deal with. Several years earlier, it had joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:32:27 +0000
Entergy Texas filed an application with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) for approval to build two natural gas power plants—one in Jefferson County and the other in Liberty […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:35:34 +0000
Mitsubishi Power, a division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), announced the company has received an order for gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation system equipment for Lamma Power Station’s […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:22:11 +0000
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and Harbin Electric announced that Chinese State Development & Investment Corp. Ltd. (SDIC) Jineng (Zhoushan) Gas Power Generation Co. Ltd. has ordered two GE 9HA.02 […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:35:24 +0000
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said it expects 16 new natural gas-fired power plants will begin commercial operation this year, a second straight year of growth in gas-fired generation […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:43:51 +0000
For more than four decades, POWER magazine has honored the top performers in the electricity-generating industry with annual power plant awards. Award winners are selected by the editors of POWER […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: William M. Conlon| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:20:58 +0000
Hybrid generation and storage is key to rapid low-carbon transition. COMMENTARY When asked why he robbed banks, the infamous Willie Sutton is said to have replied, “Because that’s where the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:08:00 +0000
Cogentrix Energy and Siemens Energy have partnered to optimize 8000H-class gas turbine reliability and outage planning. Under Cogentrix’s management, the Patriot site successfully upgraded one of its
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