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Mexico’s 1800 MW annual target to satisfy demand

03/02/2012 Mexico will need to produce 27 000 MW of additional power - equatin...

Alstom Grid-SIAG consortium to deliver substation in Germany

03/02/2012 A consortium made up of Alstom(ALO) Grid and SIAG Nordseewerke has ...

AEP launches 580 MW gas fired plant in US

03/02/2012 American Electric Power (AEP) has begun commercial operation of the...

enXco signs agreement for wind farm in Nebraska

03/02/2012 enXco Service Corporation, an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, has e...

Indonesia launches three new coal fired plants

03/02/2012 Indonesian state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) form...

Atlantic Power acquires stake in Oklahoma wind project

03/02/2012 Atlantic Power Corp. has invested approximately $23m of late-stage ...

Middle East slow to embrace renewable energy

03/02/2012 Hopes of a Middle Eastern green energy boom saving clean technology...

Ed Davey expected to take UK Energy portfolio as Huhne resigns

03/02/2012 Business Minister Ed Davey is the frontrunner to become the new UK ...

New nuclear reactors to use radioactive waste as fuel

03/02/2012 A generation of "fast" nuclear reactors could consume Bri...

US to build first nuclear reactors in a generation

03/02/2012 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a vote for Feb...

PEi Blog

Kelvin Ross is Deputy Editor of Power Engineering International magazine and its associated publications – Middle East Energy and the Global Power Review. Previously, Kelvin was News Editor at UK online news site Energy Live News, Production Editor and Head of Design on daily international shipping newspaper Lloyd’s List, Deputy Editor for a group of weekly London newspapers and has worked as a freelance sub-editor on UK national newspapers.

Danish EU presidency won't be blown off course

In terms of bad timing, it couldn’t have been worse – as Denmark was accepting the EU presidency and heralding a drive for “green growth”, Danish w...

Vestas will weather the storm

The admission by Vestas president Ditlev Engel last week that the company has “a credibility problem” was refreshingly candid. Announcing a restru...

Licence to kill nuclear’s image?

As a means of shoe-horning your way onto the news agenda, the tactic this week of the Royal Society of Chemistry worked a treat. It claimed, quite...

Oiling the wheels of industry

It is all too easy when talking in ‘big picture’ terms about power generation to overlook that part of the sector which quite literally oils the wh...

1 January 2012
Volume 20, Issue 1

Gas Turbine Oil Study

Gas power generation: Outlook, opportunities and maintenance challenges

The future of the gas-fuelled power sector looks promising, especially with growing concerns over the ability to balance the grid because of the greater integration of renewables. This is a key finding of a survey of power industry professionals.

Furthermore, a robust bottom line will depend on the effectiveness with which operational flexibility and efficiency are combined, meaning an even more critical role for maintenance professionals.

The survey of also revealed that 65 per cent believe that turbine lubrication has a key part to play here, hence the following report also looks at how the latest oil technology can help maintain operational efficiency.

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