Tag: power plant

Longview power plant gains efficiency in Virginia

Longview Power’s rehabilitation of its 700-megawatt power plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, has transformed an operation previously beset by frequent outages and poor performance into one of the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired plants in the United States.

New steam control valve for Dover power plant

Delaware, Dover City Council members agreed recently to spend more than USD $600,000 on payments toward the city's Municipal Light Plant for various acquisitions and maintenance. Included in this sum, Council approved $105,000 to be used toward replacing a boiler steam control valve that is said to be cracked and will be replaced during the plant’s annual spring shutdown.

$8 billion in valves for power plants in 2016

According to the McIlvaine Company, power plant valve purchases will remain at a high level thanks to continued construction of new coal-fired power plants in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan. Next year nearly 50 percent of the $8 billion power plant valve expenditures will be by East Asian power generators.

IMMI to build power plant in Iowa

IMMI Turbines, a manufacturer of rotating equipment and services, including valve and pipe skids, generators, compressor, pumps and more, has announced that it will build a $3.2 million heat and power generation plant in Mason City, Iowa.

Court demands EPA to redo emission limits

A US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to relax air-pollution limits placed on power-plant emissions. The EPA instituted the rules because some gases emitted from power plants cross state lines and impact “downwind” states.

Power plant maintenance includes valves

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has announced that its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania had shut down operations as of April 25th at 12:01am for scheduled refuelling and maintenance.

H-class gas turbines to US power plant

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two power plant units with H-class gas turbines for the Liberty combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania.

NRG seeking buyers

A spokeswoman for NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG)has said the company is in discussions to find potential buyers for a planned power plant in Carlsbad, California.

Bechtel breaks ground on combined-cycle power plan

Bechtel has announced that construction has begun on a 758-megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant in Sherman, Texas.

NRC to hold Seabrook nuclear plant meeting

   Nuclear Regulatory Commission authorities will be meeting with the public in Hampton, New Hampshire this week as part of the commission's yearly safety performance assessment of the NextEra Energy Seabrook nuclear power plant.