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unusual facts about Power generation



Braess's paradox

In 2012, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization demonstrated through computational modeling the potential for this phenomenon to occur in power transmission networks where power generation is decentralized.

KalkiTech

Kalkitech's solutions cater to various applications in the smart grid including Substation Automation, AMR & AMI and Distribution Automation serving Generation, Transmission and Distribution sectors.


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Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

Anpachi, Gifu

The Solar Ark, an over 300m long photovoltaic power generation facility is located in the town.

Barbados Light and Power Company

It started operations in 1911 and has three power generation stations: one located along the Spring Garden Highway, a second at The Garrison and a third located at the Sir Grantley Adams International Airport in Seawell.

Beas River

The Pong Dam served initially to primarily provide irrigation below Talwara but was soon developed as well for power generation; its power station has a 360 MW installed capacity.

Calcium magnesium acetate

Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) systems are used to convert coal into clean, usable fuel gas which is then used to run gas turbine systems for power generation.

Charleston Lake

For five years culimating in 2005, Charleston Lake was the site for re-introduction of the endangered Peregrine Falcon with The Canadian Peregrine Foundation, Ontario Power Generation and Leeds County Stewardship Council.

Comgás

The company had been wholly owned by the São Paulo state-owned power generation utility, Companhia Energética de São Paulo until April 1999, when CESP's stake was sold to the British BG Group and to Royal Dutch Shell.

Dresser-Rand Group

In 1985, Dresser Industries furthered their reach in the energy conversion and power generation market with the acquisition of a 50% share of the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk gas turbine division, the producer of the KG2, the world's first radial gas turbine.

Energy in Ohio

Rolls-Royce North America's Energy Systems Inc., a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based Rolls-Royce plc, is headquartered in Mt. Vernon, specializing in gas compression, power generation, and pipeline technologies.

Enhanced geothermal system

The AltaRock Energy effort is a demonstration project being conducted to prove out the company's proprietary technology at the site of an existing geothermal project owned and operated by NCPA in The Geysers, and does not include power generation.

Jake Epp

The government of Dalton McGuinty appointed Epp to the Ontario Power Generation Review headed by John Manley to examine the future role of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the province’s electricity market, examine its corporate and management structure, and decide whether the public utility should proceed with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering nuclear power plant.

Jocassee Dam

The dam forms Lake Jocassee, which is fed by the Toxaway, Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and flood control.

Kabalebo

There is the bauxite mine in the Bakhuis mountain range with the corresponding (never used and in the meantime declining) railway line to Apoera and during the reign of president Henck Arron (1975-1980), there were plans, part of the West Suriname Plan, to build a dam in Kabalebo for power generation for the benefit of the mining activities.

Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal

The idea was revived during the 1980s for the purpose of power generation following the 1973 oil crisis.

Nathaniel Kern

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Kern worked with major contractors from around the world in responding to tenders for the supply of power generation and water desalination equipment to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia.

Opheim, Norway

The Lya river runs through the village and is used for power generation.

Paute Dam

After the privatization of power generation that began in 1996 under the government of Sixto Durán Ballén, the dam passed into the hands of the company Hidropaute SA and then returned to state ownership during the government of Rafael Correa when Hidropaute became part of the Ecuador Electricity Corporation (Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador, CELEC).

Peterhead Power Station

The three 277 MWe V94.3A (now called SGT5-4000F) Siemens gas turbines provide a CCGT-type system of power generation, with three Doosan Babcock heat recovery steam generators providing steam to one (older) steam turbine.

Phú Mỹ Power Plants

Phú Mỹ Power Plants is a power generation complex located in Phú Mỹ, Tân Thành District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province, Vietnam.

Piedmont Natural Gas Company

As of December 23, 2013, the company served about one million residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation customers in of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, including wholesale customers served by municipalities.

Progress Energy

Progress Energy Inc, American power generation and distribution company

Selby Coalfield

The primary purpose of the pit was to supply coal for electrical power generation; much of it was used in the nearby Aire valley power stations.

Shanghai Electric

In October 2010, Shanghai Electric and Reliance Power of India signed a US$8.3 billion agreement for Shanghai Electric to supply 36 coal-fired thermal power generation units to Reliance over the subsequent three years.

Single-phase generator

A power station at Safe Harbor Dam in Pennsylvania provides power generation for both public utilities and for Amtrak railway.

Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande

The Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande (Spanish for Interconnected System of Norte Grande) or SING is an alternating current power grid serving the Norte Grande zone of Chile, it produces 19% of the national power generation.

Solar tower

also Solar furnace similar structure used to generate high temperatures for industry or power generation

Stationary engineer

They typically work in factories, offices, hospitals, warehouses, power generation plants, industrial facilities, and residential and commercial buildings.

Three Rivers Park District

The dam, for which the park was named, was built by Northern States Power Company in 1913 for electrical power generation.

Water security in Australia

The Australian Conservation Foundation and Total Environment Centre campaigned for restoration of some environmental flows to the Snowy River which had been diverted to the Murray River by the Snowy Mountains Schemefor irrigation and power generation.