Why COMBINED CYCLE Journal

Market Served:
The COMBINED CYCLE Journal (CCJ) serves key personnel at gas-turbine-based combined-cycle, simple-cycle, and cogeneration facilities in North America with its print edition. In addition, our online edition serves electric-generation professionals who design, construct, manage, operate, and maintain these types of powerplants in South America, Europe, and in key Asian and Middle Eastern nations.

Market Size:
U.S. gas-turbine-based powerplants alone had an aggregate capability of more than 350,000 MW as of September 2008. They comprise the world’s third largest generation market. Only two countries—the U.S., of course, and China—have more total generating capacity than we have at gas-turbine-based plants.

Combined-cycle plants represent 55% of the U.S. fleet’s gas-turbine-based capacity—simple-cycle and cogeneration plants the remainder. Approximately 100,000 MW of additional gas-turbine-based generating capability is under construction or planned, about three-quarters of that designed into combined-cycle facilities. In addition to business associated with new-plant construction, equipment and services providers have a reservoir of opportunities at operating plants. Consider that over the expected 20-year life of a typical combined-cycle facility, plant managers will spend as much as the original cost of the unit on O&M and equipment upgrades (not including fuel and personnel costs). For a 500-MW plant, that amounts to about $16-million annually. Thus, the 500 combined-cycle units already operating in North America alone represent more than $8-billion in annual business.

User Groups
The COMBINED CYCLE Journal has strong ties to the community of engineers and managers working at gas-turbine-based generating facilities. Our reach into the plant is facilitated by the CCJ’s close association with key industry user groups—the plant manager’s lifeline to timely solutions to plant problems. We regularly participate in meetings of the HRSG User’s Group, 501D5/D5A Users, 7F Users, Frame 6 Users, 7EA Users, 251 Users, Western Turbine Users, Combustion Turbine Operations Task Force (CTOTF), 501F Users, and others.

Members of our Editorial Advisory Board
Members of our Editorial Advisory Board have years of plant management experience and/or consulting experience focused on plant O&M problem-solving. The board includes: Robert W. Anderson, formerly Manager of Combined Cycle Services-CT Operations, Progress Energy and now in private practice; Robert D. Threlkeld, Plant Manager, Tenaska Lindsay Hill and Central Alabama Plants; J. Edward Barndt, former Managing Director of Meghnaghat Power Ltd., Haripur Power Ltd., and NEPC Consortium Power Ltd. (all located in South Asia) and now in private practice; Gabriel Fleck, chairman 501D5-D5A Users and electrical engineer, Associated Electric Cooperative Inc; John Lovelace, former chairman of the CTOTF and consulting engineer for Airzona Public Service Co and now in private practice; Dr. Barry Dooley, Structural Integrity Associates Inc.

COMBINED CYCLE Journal Subscribers
COMBINED CYCLE Journal provides an opportunity for you to address this market in a highly focused manner. The overwhelming majority of subscribers to the CCJ print edition are technicians, engineers, and engineering managers who focus exclusively on gas-turbine-based powerplants. COMBINED CYCLE Journal provides an opportunity for you to address this market in a highly focused manner. Subscribers to the CCJ print edition includes engineers and engineering managers who focus exclusively on gas-turbine-based powerplants.