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Speaking of Power: Rope-a-dope politics
Oct 01, 2008; ... Republican presidential candidate John McCain made reference to the word 'fight' 25 times during his September 4 nomination acceptance speech. While watching McCain's histrionics, my mind wandered back to another historic fight--the 'Rumble in the Jungle.' Muhammad Ali, arguably the best boxer ...
Global Monitor: The return of compressed air energy storage
Oct 01, 2008; ... Faced with soaring energy prices, researchers and developers worldwide are giving compressed air energy storage (CAES)--a technology almost 50 years old--a dusting, a spit shine, and a new life. In particular, they see it as a critical component for the dispatch of wind and other renewable ...
Commentary: Transmission: Lines that connect the renewable energy dots
Oct 01, 2008; ... The United States is used to transporting fuels to electric generation centers that are close to where the power supply is needed. We see trains carry coal by the carload from resource-rich areas to generation centers across the country. Natural gas is distributed through pipelines. Even uranium ...
Focus on O&M: COOLING WATER
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Cooling water intake structure regulationsface=-Bold; In the wake of a recent federal case, large power plants are off the hook for now as far as complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2004 rule intended to protect fish and other aquatic organisms ...
Legal & Regulatory: Texas loses 'food vs. fuel' biofuel feud
Oct 01, 2008; ... How often do you get a clash between two great Lone Star icons? Recently, Willie Nelson, the patron saint of Texas country music, and the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA), the voice of Texas ranchers, have been wrangling over the future of biofuels in ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: Boryeong Thermal Power Complex, Boryeong-Si, Chungcheongnam-do Province, South Korea
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Owner/Operator: Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd.face=-Bold; face=+Italic; From tall skyscrapers and flashing neon signs to Buddhist temples and pagodas, South Korea is a mixture of the new and old Asia. Doing its part to help modernize this country, the Boryeong Thermal Power ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: Dubuque Generating Station, Dubuque, Iowa
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Owner/Operator: Alliant Energyface=-Bold; face=+Italic; Alliant Energy's Dubuque Generating Station is a fine example of why small doesn't mean insignificant in the power generation industry. This winner of the EUCG Best Performer award in the small plant category shows that ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: First Texas coal-fired power plant since 1992
Oct 01, 2008; ... CPS Energy has commenced construction on a new coal-fired plant at Calaveras Lake. It will be the first new coal plant built in Texas since 1992, when J.K. Spruce Power Plant, Unit 1 entered service. When completed in 2010, Unit 2 of the Spruce plant will be capable of generating 750 MW ....
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: J.K. Spruce Power Plant, Unit 1, San Antonio, Texas
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Owner/Operator: CPS Energyface=-Bold; face=+Italic; CPS Energy's J.K. Spruce Power Plant, Unit 1 was recently recognized by the EUCG Fossil Productivity Committee as the best performer in the large coal plant category over the 2002-2006 evaluation period. The competition was ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: Home on the range
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fort Collins was established by the U.S. Army on the Cache La Poudre River near present-day LaPorte in 1864 as an outpost to protect the new overland mail route, but it was soon destroyed by floods. The fort was relocated a few miles downstream, adjacent to what is now known as the 'Old Town' ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: Rawhide Energy Station, Fort Collins, Colorado
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Owner/Operator: Platte River Power Authorityface=-Bold; face=+Italic; The staff of the Rawhide Energy Station have been racking up operating stats and an environmental performance record that is the envy of other plant managers. In the past decade Rawhide has enjoyed an ...
Cover Story. Coal-Fired Top Plants: TS Power Plant, Eureka County, Nevada
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Owner: Newmont Mining Corp. Operator: DTE Energy Servicesface=-Bold; face=+Italic; Not all coal-fired power plants are constructed by investor-owned utilities or independent power producers selling to wholesale markets. When Newmont Mining Corp. recognized that local power ...
Industry Trends
Oct 01, 2008; ...Courtesy: Platts Data source: Platts Energy Advantage and POWERmap. All ...
New Products
Oct 01, 2008; ... No U.S. federal standards exist to limit worker exposure to hand-arm vibration (HAV), but the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health suggests that high HAV acceleration levels (5-36 m/sface=+Superscript; 2face=-Superscript; ) can cause physical effects--and even permanent ...
Special Report. Plant O&M: Entergy's PM&DC goal and objects
Oct 01, 2008; ... Establish monitoring and diagnostic standards and processes that will leverage Operations Information System information and achieve increased benefits through: Early identification of changes in equipment physical, thermal, operational, and environmental ...
Special Report. Plant O&M: Finessing fuel fineness
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Italic; Most of today's operating coal plants began service at least a generation ago and were designed to burn eastern bituminous coal. A switch to Powder River Basin coal can stress those plants' boiler systems, especially the pulverizers, beyond their design limits and cause no end of ...
Special Report. Plant O&M: Entergy's 'big catch'
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Italic; Entergy christened its Performance Monitoring and Diagnostic Center several years ago to leverage the expertise of its most senior operators and technicians across the company's entire fleet of plants. The center also makes use of advanced software tools that increase plant ...
Features. Information Technology: A foundation for a software life-cycle management policy
Oct 01, 2008; ... A standardization process for managing the software life cycle was proposed in 'Software Life Cycle Management Standard for Micro-Processor Based Instrumentation and Control Systems,' a paper presented at the ISA/EPRI Power Industry Symposium (POWID) in 2005 by Randall L. Miller and H. Leo ...
Special Report. Steam Turbines: Repairing low-pressure rotors with cracked blade attachments
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Italic; An increasing number of low-pressure steam turbines--especially at supercritical fossil units--have experienced stress corrosion cracking in the blade attachment region of their low-pressure rotors. Approaches to solving this problem range from redesign of the attachment and blade ...
Features. Information Technology: Managing software life-cycle issues
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Italic; Software ranges from shrink-wrapped products available 'off the shelf' to custom corporate implementations of enterprise systems that require sessions with shrinks to keep everyone sane. Regardless of its complexity, every piece of software a plant uses, or interfaces to, poses ...