Category Archives: CTOTF

Note: Click thumbnail images to enlarge. No user group serving gas turbine owner/operators covers generators, high-voltage (HV) equipment, and I&C to the degree CTOTF™ does. The day-long Gen-EI&C Roundtable conducted at the 38th annual Spring Turbine Users Conference and Trade Show, chaired by Moh Saleh, Engineering Manager at SRP’s Desert Basin Generating Station, offered four [...]

President Rod Shidler and Field Service Manager Mike Hoogsteden of Advanced Turbine Support LLC had no sooner finished presenting on the results of recent inspections of Siemens 501FD2s and GE aeros at CTOTF’s™ 38th annual Spring Turbine Users Conference when one of the company’s technicians forwarded photos of significant damage to the trailing edges of [...]

These are tough times for electric utilities. Many people seem to believe they know more about the business of producing and delivering electricity than company executives, who are challenged daily by demanding questions and opinions from regulators, politicians, customers, special-interest groups, and others about everything from species displaced by new infrastructure to the unfair price [...]

NERC/FERC compliance matters dominated the afternoon session of CTOTF’s™ Regulatory and Compliance Roundtable with Vice Chair Alan Bull of NAES Corp making formal presentations on the latest version of PRC-005, “Transmission and Generation Protection System Maintenance and Testing,” and the key elements of a strong internal compliance program. Bull, an electrical engineer with more than [...]