Pacesetter Utility: NV Energy
- Reinventing Nevada’s electric utilities to meet today’s challenges
- The long road to respect
- Generation management and engineering: World-class assets, personnel
- Aggressive effort puts NVE among nation’s renewables leaders
- Clark Station: Complete makeover
- Higgins Station: ACCs, predictive analytics, recycled water
- Tracy Station: Water conservation, ZLD
- Lenzie Station: Rebirth after the GT bubble burst
- Silverhawk Station: Sound design, equipment, staff spell success
- Allen Station: New combined cycle reflects industry, fleet best practices
Class of 2008/2009
- Smith College: CHP replaces fired boilers; reduces emissions, boosts efficiency
- Kalaeloa: Continual improvement defines black-oil-fired combined cycle
- Afton: One plant, two stories
- Termocandelaria: Dual-fuel retrofit assures strong balance sheet
- West Phoenix: Getting another 10 years from 1970s combined cycles
- Frito-Lay Killingly: Commitment to a culture of conservation
- Hopkins: Combined-cycle repowering reduces fuel cost, decreases emissions
Overview
> Find, attract, retain the best people
> 7B reliability upgrades
> Siemens roundtable
> Environmental roundtable
> Access CTOTF’s online library
> GE roundtable
> GT rotor live evaluation
> Causes of unit trips
> Use plant staff for HGP
> User experiences
The first industrial engine, a 3.5-MW GE machine, began operating in a combined-cycle configuration at Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co’s Belle Isle Station in June 1949
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