2024 Combined Conference overview for CCUG, STUG, GUG, PPCUG, and LCPG Related Links What you shouldn’t miss at the upcoming Power Users Annual Conference featuring five user group tracks Power Users Annual Conference dives deep into emerging industry trends, concerns Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation […]
Are you prepared for the coming “rotor wave?” By Jeff Schleis, EthosEnergy Natural-gas-fired powerplants are an essential part of our energy infrastructure, providing a significant portion of the electricity we use every day. But stricter environmental regulations and increased social pressure for a healthier environment have brought new challenges to the operation of these critical
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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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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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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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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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The 13th annual meeting of the Air-Cooled Condenser Users Group (ACCUG) was held June 20 – 22 (2023) at Dominion Energy’s offices in Glen Allen (Richmond), Va. Strong international participation, interaction, and discussion enhanced the benefit of this event to all ACC owner/operators, service providers, and technical consultants worldwide. The presentations discussed below, which focus
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Primex, the latest entrant into the field of operational anomaly detection and machine-learning (ML) services for gas-turbine-based plants, introduced its technology to the wider combined-cycle (CC) community through a series of four webinars held in June and July 2023. The legacy application of the technology has been for SO2 scrubber and BOP performance at coal-fired
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The third and final in the NAES, ABS Group, Network Perception cybersecurity webinar series covered NERC CIP-003-9: What Now? Response Requirements. While the NERC standard is still subject to revisions and tweaks in the coming months, there is enough “writing on the wall” for low-impact bulk electric system (LIBES) sites to begin the long slog towards
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Perhaps the best way to think about how to respond to NERC-CIP-9, which seeks to protect the bulk electric system from a coordinated attack on smaller, low-impact assets which can result in a catastrophic event on the interconnected system, is this: Rather than think in terms of complying with the new standard, think about defending
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