Power back issues from December 2007:
Speaking of Power: Carbon credits and debits
Dec 01, 2007; ... Carbon control legislation made it out of a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in late October, but no one is happy with it. The bill, S. 2191, America's Climate Security Act of 2007, would direct the U.S. EPA to establish a program to decrease emissions of ...
Global Monitor: TVA may revive Bellefonte
Dec 01, 2007; ... The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received the second complete application to build a new nuclear plant in as many months. On October 30, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the NuStart consortium of nuclear utilities and reactor vendors applied for a combined construction and ...
Commentary: The mother of all energy crises
Dec 01, 2007; ... By Robert L. Hirsch, PhD face=+Bold; POWERface=-Bold; readers today face severe problems in the electricity supply business. But a much bigger problem will soon burst on the scene: the peaking of world oil production. Experts have forecast peaking since shortly after the first U.S ....
Focus on O&M: TRAINING
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The web: Ideal for skills developmentface=-Bold; To power the operations of large industrial customers and keep appliances and equipment humming in homes and businesses, Minnesota Power (MP) employees must collectively perform like a well-oiled machine--24 hours a day, 365 ...
Legal & Regulatory: Rigid COD deadlines do more harm than good
Dec 01, 2007; ... By Steven F. Greenwald and Jeffrey P. Gray A utility executive responsible for procuring renewable power recently lamented that, at the time of contract execution, renewable 'projects' are typically at a very preliminary stage of development, offering scant information about project ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Wind power predictions
Dec 01, 2007; ... The power produced by a wind turbine is a function of the wind speed as defined by the turbine power curve (Figure 5). The SPG SWT-3.6-107 wind turbine used at the Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm begins to produce power when the wind speed is close to 9 mph and reaches its 3.6-MW design power at ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Liverpool Bay, UK
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Owner: DONG Energy A/S, Operator: SeaScape Energy Ltd.face=-Bold; face=+Italic; face=+Bold; POWERface=-Bold; congratulates DONG Energy and Siemens Power Generation on the October 18 inauguration of their 90-MW Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm. This project was the first ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Central Vermont Public Service, Cow Power Program
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Italic; Central Vermont Public Service developed the nation's first farm-to-consumer renewable energy choice by using cow manure to generate electricity. CVPS gave beleaguered farms new economic hope; developed a generation system that provides clean, renewable energy; and helped solve ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Nevada Solar One, Boulder City, Nevada
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Owner/operator: Acciona Solar Powerface=-Bold; face=+Italic; Concentrating solar thermal projects fell out of favor more than 15 years ago, when the last SEGS plant was commissioned. But advances in reflective mirror, thermal receiver, and tracking system technologies have ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Raft River Geothermal Project, Malta, Idaho
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Owner/operator: U.S. Geothermal Inc.face=-Bold; face=+Italic; Geothermal power is a unique renewable energy because it has the best potential capacity factor and is perhaps the only option for baseload power generation. U.S. Geothermal has constructed the first geothermal ...
Cover Story. Renewable Top Plants: Steel Winds Project, Lackawanna, New York
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Owner/operator: UPC Wind and BQ Energyface=-Bold; face=+Italic; This year, for the first time, the U.S. wind power industry is poised to push past the 3,000 MW installed per year milestone. At 20 MW, Steel Winds may seem like a footnote, but its importance is measured in ...
Industry Trends
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New Products
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Generator self-test verifier scores an 'A'face=-Bold; Transtar Products has introduced the next generation of its popular Generator Self-test Verifier (GSV). The product is designed to evaluate and report results of the regular exercise process undergone by emergency power ...
Special Report. Project Management: Developing wind projects in California--or anywhere
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Italic; Acquiring capacity from renewable resources is now mandatory for many electric utilities, and nowhere is green generation being pursued with more vigor than in California. Regulators there want power from renewables to account for at least 20% of utilities' annual sales by 2010, ...
Features. Water Treatment: Forgotten water: Stator cooling water chemistry
Dec 01, 2007; ... face=+Italic; Stator cooling water treatment is often ignored--until the generator fails. Proper treatment and monitoring is essential to keeping the copper in your stators, where it belongs.face=-Italic; By David G. Daniels, M&M Engineering Even utilities that are very ...
Retrospective: This month in POWER...
Dec 01, 2007; ... During this 125th anniversary year, Retrospective has surveyed the evolution of the power industry as chronicled in face=+Bold; POWERface=-Bold; . The magazine's original focus in the 1880s was to fill the fledgling industry's technical information vacuum and share common operating experiences ....