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Norwalk Harbor Power Plant Shutting Down June 1

May 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Brian Dowling The Hartford Courant - The owner of the oil power plant at Norwalk Harbor said Tuesday that it will be closing the facility June 1 since prices in the region's energy market have been too low to justify keeping it open. More...

Yarmouth worries over power plant

May 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kelley Bouchard Portland Press Herald, Maine - The pending sale of Maine's largest power plant is expected to contribute to rising property taxes in Yarmouth, but town officials are more concerned about the long-term impacts of the transaction now that talks have broken down with the corporate owners of Wyman Station. More...

Siemens SGT6-2000E selected for peaking generation in Oklahoma, USA

Siemens Energy, Inc. - Siemens Energy continues its recent successes in the US market with a contract award to deliver an SGT6-2000E gas turbine to Kay County, Oklahoma, in the US. more...
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ScottMadden Issues New Energy Industry Update

ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently released The Energy Industry Update. more...

ScottMadden Insight: Quick Fossil Benchmarking Analysis

ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently launched its Quick Fossil Benchmarking Analysis service. more...

ABB commissions control system upgrade on Pratt & Whitney FT8 TWINPAC turbines

ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced that it has successfully commissioned a Symphony control system upgrade for the Pratt & Whitney FT8 TWINPAC turbines located at Iberdrola's Klamath Cogeneration Facility. more...

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By Jon Rabitoy
On: May 6, 2013
There was a time in my corporate power generation, design engineering career, where the executives of our company, shifted our engineering departments focus from funded design engineering projects, to, a heavy dosage of industrial engineering more...
By Joao Gomes
On: September 11, 2012
We must be careful so that these "Minimal Rules" do not prevent small generators can not meet, especially in the aspect of cost and demand consulting with the other requirements.

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By Joao Gomes
On: September 6, 2012
Distributed Generation will bring flexibility, reliability and security in the electric industry. While bringing many benefits, there are still enormous barriers to their implementation. Distributed Generation should meet the needs of individual consumers and communities more...
By Peter Noland
On: September 7, 2010
There appears now to be almost universal concurrence on a future where distributed generation (DG) assets including solar PV, solar thermal, fuel cells and other forms of on-site power generation produce clean, reliable & economic more...
By Harry Valentine
On: March 16, 2009
The history of power conversion can be traced back some 4000-years ago with small-site installations involving water wheels doing some form of mechanical work. Crude forms of windmills appeared during a later period. more...

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