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2024 PSM ASSET MANAGERS CONFERENCE: The Jupiter center of excellence

This is the second segment of CCJ’s three-part report on PSM’s 2024 Asset Management Conference, conducted at the Westin Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, January 29-February 1. The first segment was published earlier this year, the third installment will appear in CCJ later this year. The focus here is fourfold: FlameSheet™ keeps getting better. […]

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Cybersecurity events morph from clever hackers to geopolitical actors

By James Azar, AP4 Group While cybersecurity has been inoculated into most everyone who works in critical infrastructure, like the power industry, some may not realize that the threat vectors are shifting from clever hackers to state-sponsored malicious actors. In 2015 and 2016, Ukrainian power grids targeted by state-sponsored actors suffered widespread power outages. The

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CCJ revamps editorial advisory board, continues mission to deliver meaningful content

Bob Anderson, principal, Competitive Power Resources Corp Bob Anderson joined CPS in 2005, following a 33-year career at Florida Power Corp/Progress Energy (now Duke Energy). The independent consulting firm, based in Palmetto, Fla, focuses on heat-recovery steam generators and their related auxiliaries for combined-cycle and cogen plants. Recognized globally as an HRSG expert, Anderson has

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Experienced Proposal Engineer needed at SVI Bremco: Apply now

SVI DYNAMICS, a division of SVI BREMCO, is a leading supplier of engineered noise control and gas path solutions for industrial sites including power generation and process applications. We design, engineer, and manufacture custom solutions to meet project specific requirements and specifications. It is a fast-paced small business environment that is very rewarding for someone

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Don’t bet against gas turbines, but perhaps consider side wagers on OEMs

The popular keynote duo of Tony Brough, president, Dora Partners & Co, and Mark Axford, Axford Turbine Consultants LLC, kicked off the 33rd annual Western Turbine Users Inc (WTUI) conference with their analysis of the gas turbine (GT) market, players, and key drivers. Brough began with the rhetorical questions: Are GTs going away? Is the

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Quality of work, changing missions challenge aging plants

The Combined Cycle Users Group’s 2024 conference, a major component of Power Users’ end-of-summer meeting portfolio, is now but two months away with the early-bird registration discount terminating in only a month. Consider reserving your seat now at this premier event for gas-turbine owner/operators at www.PowerUsers.org. CCUG is one of five user groups (also, Generator,

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CCUG to recognize excellence in combined-cycle design, O&M

The Combined Cycle Users Group annually recognizes industry professionals who have demonstrated excellence throughout their careers in the design, construction, management, operation, and/or maintenance of generating facilities powered by gas turbines with its Individual Achievement Award. Recipients of the 2024 IAA will be announced during the CCUG conference, August 26-29, at the Arizona Grand Resort

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GTEN 2023 SYMPOSIUM: Realities of hydrogen come under close scrutiny

The 2023 symposium of the Gas Turbine Energy Network (GTEN), held in October 2023 in Banff, Canada, and reviewed earlier in the year (CCJ No. 77, p 96), included many presentations on hydrogen, proposed as a key fuel for a “net-zero world,” when no additional carbon is being discharged to the atmosphere. GTEN focused on

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