Attarat Power Plant Unlocks Domestic Energy Source for Jordan

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:49:59 +0000

Oil shale doesn’t fuel a lot of power plants around the world, but in Jordan, it’s a vital option, offering energy security and independence. The success of the Attarat Power Plant in capitalizing on this

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Experience Shows Wet Compression Is Safe to Use on Gas Turbines

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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Forced Outage Parametric Insurance Solutions for CCGTs

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:29 +0000

Combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants started appearing on a larger scale in the late 1990s and have since then been a very efficient supplier of baseload and lately […]

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Marnie Surfaceblow: What Helped Make Marnie, Marnie

Credit to Author: Una Nowling, PE| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:42:09 +0000

Negativity can push you off your course in life. This is when Marnie first pushed back. “Any signal, Maya?” asked Marnie Surfaceblow, vice president of Surfaceblow & Associates International, as she

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New Gas-Fired Power Plants Proposed in Southeast Texas

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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GE Vernova Seals Deal for 1.7-GW Combined Cycle Plant in China

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:22:11 +0000

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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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South Korea’s First ‘K-Gas Turbine’ Begins Commercial Operation

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:19:21 +0000

Marking a significant inroad to establish a South Korean foothold in the world’s gas turbine technology market, heavy industrial company Doosan Enerbility this summer began commercial operation of its first

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Hot Weather: How to Maintain Power Plant Readiness and Reliable Operation

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:22:53 +0000

Extreme temperature and weather events have become more prevalent in the past decade. In fact, July 2023 is shaping up to be “the hottest single month on Earth on record, […]

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500-MW Hydrogen Power Plant Planned in Arkansas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 18:29:55 +0000

An Arkansas city known for its use of renewable energy announced plans to break ground this year on a power plant that would be part of the state’s first so-called […]

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What Will a Fusion Power Plant Look Like?

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:19:00 +0000

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the process by

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