Power Plant Costs Articles & Analysis

Following a matchmaking between Belgian and Kenyan start-ups as part of the Silicon Savannah economic mission by Startups.be & Close the Gap, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Green Crossroads is happy to announce they have launched a new spin-off in Kenya. Green Crossroads supports organisations develop sustainable projects in emerging countries, with a particular focus on ...

By HydroBox NV

As part of the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May – 1 June, Seville), CSP Today have been speaking to the biggest companies participating in the summit – to find out why the CSP industry should be concerned with the optimisation of new and existing plants. Research has indicated that balance of plant costs are now over 50% of the total lifetime cost of a CSP ...

By New Energy Update - Reuters Events

As part of the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May – 1 June, Seville), CSP Today have been speaking to the biggest companies participating in the summit – to find out why the CSP industry should be concerned with the optimisation of new and existing plants. Research has indicated that balance of plant costs are now over 50% of the total lifetime cost of a CSP ...

By New Energy Update - Reuters Events

GE Energy (NYSE: GE) is launching its new GPS 4827 and GPS 2436 telecom energy systems with power electronics energy efficiency approaching 97 percent and flexible equipment leasing options. Designed to accelerate energy efficiency upgrades across mid-size central offices, mobile switching centers, internet datacenters and other communications facilities, the new Galaxy Power System? (GPS) DC ...

By General Electric

ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces that it will launch its sub-brand inverter-Omnik to global market. ET Solar offers various Omnik inverters, including single-phase, three-phase, hybrid and micro series that have been granted VDE, G83, SAA, and ENEL certifications after stringent tests. With advanced designs including transformerless ...

By ET Solar

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 ...

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Blue Wave AI Labs successfully deployed machine learning (ML) tools at two nuclear power plants operated by Constellation, saving the company millions of dollars per reactor each year. The project was part of a $6 million effort supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to help lower the operating costs of nuclear power plants using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and ML ...

By Smart Grid Observer

April 28, 2011: SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) and Total (CAC: TOTF.PA) today announced that the two companies have entered into a broad strategic relationship to shape the future of the solar industry. Total Group will launch a friendly tender offer through a wholly owned subsidiary for up to 60 percent of SunPower’s outstanding Class A Common shares and 60 percent of SunPower’s ...

By Total S.A

EnviTec OptiPacks for intelligent control and a clever investment Lohne, 15 July 2014 – Making existing plants fit for the future in a cost-effective manner? The repowering experts at EnviTec Biogas AG have very special formula for this. With EnviTec OptiPacks, even older biogas plants can reach their optimum, reducing operating costs at the same time. The intelligent software packages ...

By EnviTec Biogas AG

Clarke Energy and our sister company Co-Energy America are pleased to announce our support of World Cogeneration Day, September 4th 2020 and highlighting key international cogeneration projects. Cogeneration or combined heat and power technology (CHP) plays an important role in providing efficient localised power and supporting carbon emissions reduction. Gas engine CHP plants can use renewable ...

By Clarke Energy

Chinese researchers have developed a novel approach to generating renewable energy that uses undeveloped mountains as 'solar chimneys' to convert sunlight into electricity. Although untested, such technology could potentially compete with clean coal power plants in terms of cost and make significant contributions to energy supplies in mountainous countries. Design of a standard solar chimney is ...

By European Commission, Environment DG

The International Energy Agency praised the Czech Republic for supporting the development of robust natural gas and electricity infrastructure in its latest review of Czech energy policies. The country has the highest level of electricity interconnection capacity within Central Europe and is equally well connected to neighbouring natural gas markets. Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, ...

By International Energy Agency

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) announced it has installed more than half of the 2.5 million solar panels that will comprise eight new solar power plants powering its customers by early 2018. Construction activity at the new solar sites is at peak levels with a workforce of more than 1,000 men and women, including military veterans, building the advanced facilities. The eight new plants ...

By Smart Grid Observer

It’s less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal-fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. In fact—using the official U.S. government estimates of health and environmental costs from burning fossil fuels—the study ...

By Natural Resources Defense Council

Making existing plants fit for the future in a cost-effective manner? The repowering experts at EnviTec Biogas AG have very special formula for this. With EnviTec OptiPacks, even older biogas plants can reach their optimum, reducing operating costs at the same time. The intelligent software packages from the biogas all-rounder from Lower Saxony were developed last year and have achieved success ...

By EnviTec Biogas AG

US electricity generators may be committing their customers and investors to as much as $1 trillion in future investment and fuel costs through 2030 as they rush to build new gas-fired power plants. Yet advances in renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DERs) offer lower rates and emissions-free energy while delivering all the grid reliability services that new power plants can, ...

By Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Untitled Document The reality is that any form of energy generation will create some additional greenhouse gases and will add some amount of pollution or negative environmental impact. The challenge is to make the best energy choices with a clear understanding of the positive and negative aspects of each option. New developments relative to capture and sequestering ...

By The McIlvaine Company

This week, the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) kicked off the first of three public input and discussion sessions to review state laws related to how utilities set their rates. These sessions will wrap up in early November and will result in a set of legislative recommendations to be considered in the 2024 legislative session. This process stemmed from the passage this year of House File 617, which ...

By Smart Grid Observer

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Driven by a period of significant economic growth, the demand for electricity within sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching supply capacity and in many countries exceeding it. The resultant demand for new generation capacity is boosting growth in the steam turbine market for the region. 'The sub-Saharan African steam turbine market is expected to grow considerably ...

By Frost & Sullivan

Power plant operators around the world are upgrading traditional water treatment systems in an effort to improve the efficiency of plant processes and lower customer costs. Microfiltration membrane technology is a proven method of achieving this goal. At the International Water Conference (November 4th-8th) in San Antonio, Texas, topic experts Marvin Drake of the Indiantown Cogeneration plant in ...

By Pall Corporation