REO Cogeneration Plant Owned and operated by Lansing Board of Water & Light 100 MW, 2 × 1 LM6000PF-powered combined cycle equipped with IST once-through steam generators, located in Lansing, Mich. Plant manager: Tom Dickinson Challenge. Because REO Cogen is certified to ISO 55001, certain documents must be controlled. Historically, the plant printed LOTO clearances […]
LOTO wall improves outage awareness at REO Cogen Read More »
Milton B Lee Peakers CPS Energy 376-MW simple cycle peaking facility powered by eight LM6000PC gas turbines located in San Antonio, Tex. Plant manager: Ryan McDonnell Challenge. Following an extended period of subpar performance, the owner partnered in 2017 with the gas-turbine OEM and an engineering firm to evaluate reliability across the eight LM6000PC peaking
MB Lee improves starting reliability and forced outage rate Read More »
University Park North and South North: 540-MW, simple-cycle peaking facility with twelve GE LM6000s. South: 300-MW, simple-cycle peaking facility with six FT8 TwinPacs. The plant is located in University Park, Illinois. Owned by LS Power Operated by IHI Power Services Plant manager: Brandon Dupler Background. University Park North and South use demineralized NOx water injection
University Park prevents freeze-related start failures Read More »
Nevada Cogeneration Associates No. 2 Owned by Panamint Capital Operated by IHI Power Services 85-MW, gas-fired, 3 × 1 LM2500-powered combined-cycle cogeneration facility located in Las Vegas, NV Plant manager: Chris Benkman Background. Nevada Cogeneration Associates 2 (NCA2) shifted from a baseload operating model after a long-term power purchase agreement ended, and the O&M team
Right-sizing plant air for non-dispatch periods at Nevada Cogen Read More »
Mariposa Energy Project Owned by Diamond Generating Corp Operated by DGC Operations 200 MW, gas-fired 4 × 0 LM6000PC-powered (Sprint equipped) peaking plant, located in Alameda County, Calif Plant manager: Justin Crook Background. Mariposa Energy Project is a 200-MW peaking facility in northern California with four LM6000 units. Plant fuel supply is delivered from the
Fuel-gas letdown controls provide multiple benefits at Mariposa Read More »
Building on recent fruitful conferences and increased fleet utilization, the FT8 Users Group and FT4 Users Group will convene at the EPRI Charlotte campus for a single, co-located three-day meeting designed to strengthen peer-to-peer problem solving for owner/operators and create structured touchpoints with OEMs and solution providers. Expect practical lessons learned, candid fleet discussions, and
FT4/FT8: The state of the FT fleet as end users find ways forward…together Read More »
WattBridge Fleet Owned and operated by PROENERGY through Sept. 16, 2025. At that time, four of the six sites—HO Clarke, Topaz, Mark One, and Remy Jade Generating Stations—were sold to CPS Energy. 2,400-MW simple-cycle aeroderivative fleet with 50 x LM6000PC located throughout Texas Plant managers: Humberto Figueroa, Jaymes Martens, Eric Kuper Advanced monitoring and predictive solutions
Best practices from the world’s largest LM6000 fleet Read More »
Woodland Generation Station, Unit 2 Modesto Irrigation District 83-MW, 1×1, LM6000 combined cycle located in Modesto, Calif Plant manager: Paul Mercer Challenge. The Modesto Irrigation District (MID) Woodland Generation Station Unit 2, an LM6000 combined cycle gas turbine commissioned in 2003, has long faced operational challenges in meeting its stack NOx and ammonia slip limits
AIG retrofit for enhanced NOx control and efficiency Read More »
At the 4th Annual PROENERGY Conference, held in Phoenix, AZ in January, the mood was buoyant. Gas turbine (GT) orders (and shop reservations) are skyrocketing, electricity demand growth is higher than it’s been in decades, hyperscale data centers and their insatiable need for electricity are being built and planned throughout the country, and restrictive regulatory
PROENERGY 2026 : ‘Move fast, break things’ versus an electric infrastructure mindset Read More »
ISO has published the first turbomachinery-specific standards for air intake filters. ISO 29461-1, ISO 29461-2 and ISO 29461-3 establish uniform test methods for efficiency and dust holding capacity, performance in fog and mist, and mechanical integrity at high pressure. While this is not breaking news, the combination of the three standards is a powerful decision-making
Easy as 1,2,3: Choose inlet filters based on GT-specific standards Read More »
