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Addressing weather resilience, risk management, and outage execution @ CCUG 2024

  In recent years, winterization has become a hot topic for user groups, and this year’s CCUG was no exception. One reason is that the next extreme weather event seems to challenge everything done to address the last one. During the “Extreme Weather Operation” roundtable, the user facilitator noted that “bomb cyclone weather forced us […]

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Life-long learning abounds across five user group conferences @ Power Users 2024

The question these days becomes why wouldn’t you send as many of your plant staff as possible to the Power Users Combined Conference, comprising the Combined Cycle Users Group (CCUG), Generator Users Group (GUG), Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG), Power Plant Controls Users Group (PPCUG), and the Low Carbon Peer Group? As amply exhibited in the

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Inlet-system maintenance critical to top performance

The Energy Information Administration reports that US electricity demand will increase by 25% within five years, requiring a significant increase in generating capacity, upgrades to existing assets, and improvements to grid infrastructure. But that’s only part of the solution: Maintaining the current fleet of generation assets in top condition is vital to meeting projected demand.

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Plan to attend CCUG for new perspectives in O&M

With plant teams stretched thin and assets being pushed harder, the 2025 Power Users Combined Conference (August 25–28, Washington, D.C.) offers an unmatched opportunity to get smarter, solve problems, and benchmark with peers. The Combined Cycle Users Group (CCUG) track brings practical, plant-level insights front and center—especially for O&M leaders, engineers, technicians, and reliability staff

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Improvise, adapt, overcome: Navigate power’s new frontiers

In a period of accelerating change across the power generation industry—shaped by decarbonization goals, shifting market pressures, and the realities of an aging fleet—the 2025 Power Users Combined Conference presents a timely opportunity to learn, adapt, and prepare your team for what’s next. From August 25–28 in Washington, D.C., this multi-group forum brings together five

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River Road advances safety, efficiency, and reliability with practical onsite improvements

River Road Generating Plant Owned by Clark Public Utilities Operated by GE Vernova O&M 248 MW, gas-fired 1 × 1 7F.02-powered combined cycle (STAG configuration) equipped with a Foster Wheeler HRSG, GE A12 steam turbine, and GE 324 generator, located in Vancouver, Wash Plant manager: Robert Mash Safer handling of chemical totes Challenge. Gravity feeding

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ACCUG: Global collaboration drives air-cooled condenser innovation

The 15th annual meeting of the Air-Cooled Condensers Users Group (ACCUG) was held at the University of East London (UK) July 23-25, 2024. Principal content categories were chemistry and corrosion, air-cooled condenser (ACC) design and performance, and system operation and maintenance. The event was chaired by Andy Howell, EPRI; Barry Dooley, Structural Integrity (UK); and

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Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps

“Mastering Desuperheating and Attemperation,” Ory Selzer, IMI Insyt Almost 200 slides long, this presentation could serve as a comprehensive training course on what can and does go wrong with two of the most vexing subsystems in the steam cycle, as well as solutions. Instructor sets the stage with numerous photos of component failures (Fig 6),

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Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps

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Generator Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps

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