Located near the village of the same name in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border, the lignite fired Jänschwalde power plant has an installed capacity of 3000 MW and consists of six 500 MW units. It is the second-largest brown coal power plant in operation in Germany and is owned by Swedish utility Vattenfall.
Over the past 20 years gas turbines configured as combined-cycle power generation units have become one of the mainstays of the power generation industry, particularly in the liberalized electricity markets. This popularity has been driven by a number of factors including the relatively low cost of natural gas during at least part of this period, the low cost of gas turbines and the speed with which gas turbine-based power plants can be installed.
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An alphabetical listing of companies in the gas and steam turbine sectors with full contact details.
At a European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) meeting in 1994, a group of 40 power generators and manufacturers agreed to investigate the potential of nickel-based alloys as likely candidates for a new, advanced technology, named ‘AD700’. It would become a landmark in the ‘clean coal’ agenda and set the scene for further development of ultra-supercritical (USC) technology, where power plant designers were struggling to punch a way through steam parameters in the range of 300 bar and 600 °C – a barrier that had seemed impenetrable for some time.
PEi presents key performance data of both gas and steam turbines (larger than 1 MW) from manufacturers across the globe in an easy to read, comprehensive format.
The European Commission has proposed culling surplus emissions permits from the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2013–2020 under a long-term plan for curbing greenhouse gases.
Alstom has signed a contract worth about €500m ($684m) with Norte Energia of Brazil to provide power equipment for the Belo Monte dam, the world’s third largest hydroelectric power plant with a planned capacity of 11.23 GW.
US utility power PPL is to acquire E.ON’s UK power networks for £3.5bn ($5.7bn) in cash to create one of the largest electricity distributors in Britain.
A consortium headed by Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) has signed a $1.43bn deal to build a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in the UAE and sell its output for 25 years.
Tokyo Electric Power’s (Tepco) Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in Northeast Japan was crippled after the catastrophic loss of its reactor cooling systems following an earthquake and tsunami.
The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers American football teams were not the only power on display at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas during last month’s Super Bowl.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the inaugural Power Engineering International Gas & Steam Turbine Directory issue.
One of the more critical aspects of nuclear reactor maintenance work at Browns Ferry, a 3.4 GW boiling water reactor plant near Decatur, Alabama, USA, and every other plant, is opening and resealing the vessel head flange, which consists of many large studs and nuts.
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