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Meralco challenged to abandon coal-fired power plants

June 6, 2019 admin antimonan, Coal, Energy, latest news, Latest News Stories, MERALCO, murang kuryente, Nation, power plant, renewable energy

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:29:00 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — While it welcomed Manila Electric Company’s (Meralco) plan to develop renewable energy projects, the Murang Kuryente party-list also challenged the company to abandon all of its coal-fired power plants. “Renewable energy [RE] is safer, more affordable, and more sustainable than coal, and it is welcome to hear Meralco say they are committing […]

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THE BIG PICTURE: 30 Innovations Revolutionizing the Power Industry

May 1, 2019 admin connected plant, digital, digital revolution, dispatchable generation, disruptions, distributed energy, distributed power, electricity storage, empowering the consumer, enabling renewable supply, iiot, iiot power, Infographics, irena, market design, new grids, news, power plant, Renewables, system operations, Uncategorized, vre

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 04:00:44 +0000

Between 2005 and 2016, the global installed capacity of solar PV increased more than seven-fold, and the capacity of onshore wind increased nearly three-fold, and owing to plunging costs, variable renewable energy (VRE) capacity is set to expand dramatically, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). To accommodate soaring shares of VRE generation, innovations […]

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Bayan Muna hits ‘looming’ power rate hike due to shutdowns

April 26, 2019 admin Bayan Muna, latest news, Latest News Stories, Nation, Neri Colmenares, power plant, power rates, rate hike, shutdown

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:18:35 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Militant group Bayan Muna on Friday blasted the “impending” power rate increase due to plant shutdowns and stressed that power plant operators should shoulder the costs.

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The Line Blurs Between Small Cogen Plants and Large Combined Cycles

March 5, 2019 admin cogeneration, combined cycle, Gas, gas turbine, ge, ge power, heat recovery steam generator, hrsg, hrsg user's group, news, once-through steam generator, otsg, Plant Design, power plant, Research and Development, siemens, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:39:54 +0000

When U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), he unintentionally ignited the worldwide deregulation of electricity markets, which in turn began a worldwide technology race between two distinct types of power plants: the newly created, industrial-scale plant that PURPA dubbed “cogeneration” and the traditional, utility-scale power […]

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Colstrip Power Plant Threatened by Westmoreland Bankruptcy

January 30, 2019 admin Business, Coal, coal mine, colstrip, courts, Environmental, finance, Fuel, fuel contract, Legislative, Markets, news, power, power plant, rosebud, westmoreland

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:40:29 +0000

The Colstrip Power Plant, a four-unit, 2,094-MW coal-fired station located about 100 miles east of Billings, Montana, could see its coal supply contract nullified as a result of Westmoreland Coal Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Westmoreland operates the 25,000-acre Rosebud coal mine, among others. Rosebud is adjacent to the Colstrip plant and supplies almost all […]

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Coal Silo Failures Reveal the Need for NDE Inspection

October 11, 2018 admin Coal, coal silo, inspection, nde, news, non-destructive evaluation, O&M, power plant, Safety, ultrasonic testing

In July 2016, a coal silo collapsed at an Indiana power plant. The root cause was identified as cracking of the cone-to-skirt weld. Warnings to inspect this vulnerable weld were published widely in conference proceedings and trade journal articles. Nevertheless, coal silos continue to fail at an alarming rate (Figure 1), which suggests that the […]

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FirstEnergy Throws in the Towel on Coal Plants

August 30, 2018 admin beaver valley nuclear plant, bruce mansfield power plant, Business, Coal, Davis-Besse, decommissioning, energy ventures analysis, eva, FirstEnergy, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Nuclear, perry nuclear power plant, pleasants power station, power plant, retirement, w.h. sammis

FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) notified PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization (RTO), of its plans to deactivate four fossil-fuel generating plants in 2021 and 2022. In a press release issued on August 29, the company said it “is closing the plants due to a market environment that fails to adequately compensate generators for the resiliency […]

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