power plant efficiency News
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Coal & gas power plants - efficiency & cost
Which of today's fossil fuel-fired power plants have highest efficiencies and lowest emissions? And how much do they cost? These are some of the questions answered in IEA's recently released publication Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Generation - Case Studies of Recently Constructed Coal- and Gas-Fired Power Plants. But the authors' case studies covering nine selected facilities in Europe, Asia and ...
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Captive power plant efficiency for Africa
Power distribution networks across Africa are notoriously unreliable. Frequent power interruptions can be enormously costly for many of the continent’s factories. Not only do power outages disrupt production batches, they can also damage or reduce the life of important plant components such as kilns. This too has a knock-on effect on wider the country’s gross domestic product – ...
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Clarke Energy wins Outstanding Contribution Award
Clarke Energy won the ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Borough of Knowsley’ at the Knowsley Business and Regeneration Awards. The event took place at the Grand Marquee at Knowsley Safari Park. There were in excess of 600 people in attendance recognising success stories from companies in the local area. Councillor Dave Lonergan, Knowsley Council’s Cabinet Member for ...
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OECD countries to limit overseas financing for coal plants
A compromise struck by the United States, Japan and other major nations will restrict export financing to build coal power plants overseas, but not eliminate it completely. The agreement reached earlier this week is an important step that sends a strong political message ahead of upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, an American official and environmentalists said. The Obama ...
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Thin Coating on Condensers Could Make Power Plants More Efficient
Original story at MIT News Most of the world’s electricity-producing power plants — whether powered by coal, natural gas, or nuclear fission — make electricity by generating steam that turns a turbine. That steam then is condensed back to water, and the cycle begins again. But the condensers that collect the steam are quite inefficient, and improving them could make a big ...
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SMA Inverters Selected for Massive Copper Mountain Solar Project
SMA inverters were recently selected by Amec Foster Wheeler for Sempra Renewables’ 94 MW Copper Mountain Solar 4 project in Boulder City, Nev. This is the fourth phase of the Copper Mountain Solar Complex, one of the largest PV solar facilities in the U.S. When Copper Mountain Solar 4 is complete, it will power approximately 41,000 California homes. This is one of the first major solar ...
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Saudi Electricity Company and GE sign MOU to form joint venture to provide operational support for power plants to enhance efficiency
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) and GE (NYSE: GE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture that will extend operations and maintenance (O&M) support to SEC’s power plants in the Kingdom. GE will extend its advanced technologies and train SEC staff to undertake the O&M services. Expected to be operational later this year, the center will undertake ...
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Carbon management for power plants 2011
As uncertainty grows around EPA and state-level regulation surrounding carbon emissions from power plants, finding strategies and technologies for complying with these regulations is becoming a top priority for power plant operators. Because of this, the Chief Environmental Officers from America's largest power generation companies including Southern Company, Dominion Resources and Constellation ...
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Regent Energy & Power Limited- IPP
Regent Energy & Power Limited is one of the leading power generating companies in the private sector in Bangladesh and acts as an independent power producer (IPP). With two projects with a capacity of 108 MW and 22 MW, the company assists the people of Bangladesh by providing power to the national grid. Regent Energy & Power Limited produces power from natural gas at high electrical ...
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EIB lends EUR 135m for Turkish hydro-power project
The European Investment Bank, the European Union’s long-term financing arm, is to lend EUR 135 million to support the construction of eight hydroelectric power plants in South East Turkey by Enerjisa Enerji Üretim A.Ş., a 50/50 joint venture between Haci Őmer Sabanci Holding A.Ş and Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts AG. The eight plants with an installed capacity of 955 ...
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World coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35% in next 10 years
World coal-fired power plant capacity will grow from 1,759,000 MW in 2010 to 2,384,000 MW in 2020. Some 80,000 MW will be replaced. So there will be 705,000 MW of new coal-fired boilers built. The annual new boiler sales will average 70,000 MW. The annual investment will be $140 billion. These are the most recent forecasts in Coal-fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast published by the ...
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ADI 2045TI Process Analyzer Helps Operating Nuclear Power Plants at Peak Efficiency
Metrohm Applikon is pleased to present a robust solution (AN-PAN-1013) for the on-line monitoring of boric acid in cooling waters of pressurized water reactors (PWRs). The Metrohm Applikon system is based on the ADI 2045TI Process Analyzer and determines the boric acid concentration by potentiometric titration. The system adapts automatically to the varying concentration range (0-2000 ppm) ...
By Metrohm AG
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EV batteries vs. a Minnesota winter: which will prevail?
Xcel Energy blog We know Minnesotans are hardy stock, but will their electric cars match their owners’ mettle? That’s one of the things being tested by the City of St. Paul and Drive Electric Minnesota, a collaboration of businesses, nonprofits and government agencies in the Twin Cities. They’ve teamed up to build an EV infrastructure and put the new cars and vans through their ...
By 3BL Media
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LAWI is developing a new advanced control algorithm LAWI EtaLogic
Process control of biomass and waste-to-energy power plants is a complicated process, in which numerous process parameters have interactions with each other. Biomass and waste fuels are characterized to have various and sometimes unpredictable quality, heating value, moisture and even sudden changes to power generation demand. These fuel properties cause a lot of difficulties for the tuning and ...
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Astronauts, efficiency and apollo 13
Xcel Energy Blog I know that some people don’t think that energy efficiency is very compelling, but there are a lot of astronauts who would disagree with that. In space, energy efficiency literally saves lives. When Apollo 13 lost electrical power, the astronauts’ survival came down to their ability to conserve enough energy to bring them back to Earth. After shutting down all ...
By 3BL Media
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The enlarged EU can phase out fossil and nuclear energy
Untitled Document Today, International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE)-Europe releases its vision for sustainable development for the 25 EU countries. It shows how the EU countries can change from the polluting fossil and nuclear energy to renewable energy, if there is a will to increase the political support to renewable energy and energy efficiency. With the ...
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The 330 MW Sarulla Geothermal Power Project In Indonesia Signed Project Agreements
RENO, Nev., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that Sarulla Operations Ltd. (SOL) has signed a Joint Operating Contract (JOC) and Energy Sales Contract (ESC)for the 330 MW Sarulla geothermal power project in Tapanuli Utara, North Sumatra in Indonesia. Ormat participation in this project includes two roles. Ormat designed the plant and will supply ...
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New Report Finds Energy Efficiency is America’s Cheapest Energy Resource
According to a new report released today by ACEEE, energy efficiency is the cheapest method of providing Americans with electricity. Energy efficiency programs aimed at reducing energy waste cost utilities only about three cents per kilowatt hour, while generating the same amount of electricity from sources such as fossil fuels can cost two to three times more. “The cheapest energy is the ...
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Dhaka Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition 2017
Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Services Co Limited are hosting the 14th Dhaka International Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition 2017 (DTG), where Clarke Energy will be exhibiting. The exhibition takes place on 23rd -26th Feb 2017 in the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC). Over the past few years, Bangladesh has witnessed and ...
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ABB collaborates with universities to harvest energy from the sun
ABB is the leading partner for solar power generation and can deliver the know-how, products and systems for large, efficient power plants as well as small, efficient buildings. In Solar Decathlon 2009, the competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to create the most energy efficient house, ABB Germany has provided expertise and specific ABB intelligent building components for ...
By ABB
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