JULY 14, 2021 — Valmet will supply a boiler upgrade and a flue gas cleaning system to Stora Enso’s Anjala-Ingerois sites in Finland. The goal of the investment is to…
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![Rediscovering Fire: Advancements in Gas Turbine Combustion](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fig1-dissected-view-hl-gas-turbine-siemens.jpeg)
Gas power market drivers and a quest for relevance in future decarbonized systems are driving fundamental shifts in gas turbine combustion design approaches. Combustion lies at the heart of gas…
![Renewable Natural Gas Emerging as Serious Decarbonized Gas Contender](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fig1-align-rng-dominion.jpeg)
Last December, two giant Virginia-headquartered firms—energy company Dominion Energy and food manufacturer Smithfield Foods—announced completion of a novel renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Milford, southwestern Utah. While the Milford…
![How (and Why) Using DVR Modeling Will Improve Power Plant Performance](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fig3-pressure-gauge-gse.jpg)
Traditional power plant performance indicators do not always provide reconcilable data. This means plant personnel may be making operational changes based on inaccurate information. An innovative data validation and reconciliation…
![All Fuels Are Important, but Thermal Power Generation Is Still Number 1](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_307491971_720.jpg)
COMMENTARY Throughout my career—and also POWER magazine’s long history—thermal power generation has been the greatest source of dispatchable electricity generation. In my view, policymakers have run a very good and…
![New modification of Russian VVER-440 fuel loaded at Paks NPP in Hungary](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/paks-npp-reactor-hall-scaled.jpg)
DECEMBER 14, 2020 — After the recent refueling at power unit 3 of the Hungarian Paks NPP, its VVER-440 reactor has been loaded with a batch of fresh fuel including…
![How the Clean Energy Transition Is Intensifying the Energy-Water Nexus](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/powerplant_sunrise_water_pxhere.jpg)
Decarbonization is posing a fundamental dilemma that could have widespread serious implications for the power sector: the clean energy transition, if not properly managed, could increase water stress, or be…
AUGUST 26, 2020 — The Investment Committee of Rosatom has approved the project of modernization of the experimental shop-floor for nuclear fuel fabrication at the site of the Siberian Chemical…
![Belarus Plant Loads Fuel; Second Reactor Set for 2022](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/astravets-npp.jpg)
Russian energy officials said they have begun loading fuel into the first reactor at the new Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), while at the same time confirming plans for the…
![$122 Million Earmarked for Coal ‘Innovation Centers’](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/coal-train.jpg)
Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is ready to make about $122 million available to establish what the DOE calls “innovation centers” for coal. Brouillette…