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- GE Power Systems on turbines, renewables, and nuclear power GE Power Systems (GEPS) has transformed itself over the past few years by entering new power generation markets and through strategic acquisitions. Editor-in-Chief Dr. Robert Peltier recently met
- Peltier: A key project for the future of GEPS is the Baglan Bay Power Station near Cardiff, South Wales, in the U.K [see page TK]. Can you update us on the status of that project and the future of the H-technology it uses?
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Nuclear Energy
- TVA Nuclear operates two different types of nuclear power plants, one using pressurized water and the other boiling water. A nuclear plant works in much the same way that a TVA dam or fossil-fuel plant does, in that large turbine blades are used to operate a generator to produce electricity....
- White papers
- Energy Roundup: Konarka Opens Largest Thin-Film Plant, Exelon-NRG Merger, Great Ohio Goes Belly-Up, and More
- Largest thin-film solar plant opened -- Konarka Technologies says it has opened the world's largest -- 250,000 square feet -- roll-to-roll flexible thin film solar manufacturing plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The company is ramping up to begin shipping its "Power Plastic," thin, lightweight photovoltaic material in commercial quantities. [Source:...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
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- Siemens Builds Electric Bike for American Chopper TV Show
- Munich-based Siemens, a global energy company and service provider with plans to help build the smart grid, had revenue of $116.6 billion in fiscal 2008 ($22.4 in the U.S.) It has 69,000 employees, and operates in 190 countries. Its products are involved in the generation of a quarter of the world’s...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Energy Roundup: ExxonMobil Wins Java Rights, Centric Raises $3.5 Billion, and More
- ExxonMobil, Inpex win exploration rights off Indonesia -- ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration International has won rights to explore the Gunting Block in East Java, in a three-year deal worth $17 million. Inpex has also won exploration rights, theirs in the Semai II Block off West Papua. That deal is said...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- GE Energy Turbine Island Refurbishment to Extend Reliable Operating Life of Hydro-Quebec's Gentilly-2 Nuclear Generating Station
- ATLANTA -- Hydro-Quebec, one of the largest electric utilities in North America, has selected GE Energy to perform a turbine island refurbishment that will extend the reliable operating life of the 675-megawatt Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station, a major supplier of electricity for Montreal and Quebec City in Canada. Located...
- Research articles 2009-02-12
- Energy Roundup: Vestas Layoffs, Geothermal Setback, Nuclear Waste Fight, and More
- Vestas trims 1,900 workers despite rising profits -- The world's top wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, is cutting free almost 10 percent of its workforce despite a 70 percent rise in first-quarter profit over last year. The reason is a largely regional downturn in the market, with the pain is focused...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- A permanent solution to stress corrosion cracking At Duke Energy's Moss Landing plant in California, a vendor demonstrated that "longshanking" a turbine's last-stage blades is far cheaper and faster than upgrading its steam path--a proce
- As the U.S. steam turbine fleet ages, it's not surprising that more end users are discovering stress corrosion cracking SCC in the low-pressure LP rotors of units at both fossil-fueled and nuclear plants. Due to inherently high stress levels in blade attachment dovetails, the number of LP turbine rotors affected...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Inherit the wind: will clean energy pass us by?
- Reluctance to invest in wind farms and air-turbine development may leave the US out of a revolution in wind power, the world's fastest-growing energy source. Deregulated oil company and utility mega-mergers and subsidies for nuclear power will keep the US committed to expensive, obsolete power. From 180 feet...
- Research articles 1997-06-16
- NEW HORIZONS
- HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER GENERATION AND A CLIMBING AIRCRAFT MARKET ARE DRIVING GAS TURBINE TECHNOLOGY. OUR CHILDREN WILL ENJOY in their homes electric power too cheap to meter." So spoke Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in a speech given in 1954. This quote has become...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Earth island journal. - periodical reviews
- Earth Island Journal The recently released Soviet report on the Chernobyl accident is extremely detailed and forthright.... According to the Soviet draft report, it took only 40 seconds from the time that the turbine began to run down until the core "exploded." ... In a steam explosion, the hot...
- Research articles 1987-03-22
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