56 FEATURES PowdER RivER bASin coAl 56 PRbcUG Small Plant of the Year: Muscatine Power & water A 293-MW municipal utility plant won the 2011 Small Plant Award from the Powder River Basin Coal Users' Group (PRBCUG). Learn how an explosion shortly after converting to this volatile, low-sulfur coal prompted plant staff to join and learn from the PRBCUG how to successfully operate a plant that was not originally designed to handle PRB coal. PlAnT o&M 60 navigant Announces coal-Fired Generation operational Excellence Awards Want to make your coal-fired plant award-worthy? Check out previous award winners and learn about the criteria that one major consulting company uses to determine who's a winner. woRKSiTE SAFETY 60 62 Real-time Proactive Safety in construction Collisions involving moving vehicles and equipment are the primary cause of construction injuries and deaths. In this article, the Construction Industry Institute introduces remote sensing and visualization technology that promises to improve worker situational awareness and save lives. dEPARTMEnTS SPEAKinG oF PowER 6 My Top 10 Predictions for 2012 GlobAl MoniToR 62 8 world Energy outlook Forecasts Great Renewables Growth 10 Australia levies landmark carbon Tax 10 nRc to implement lessons learned from Fukushima 11 GE Uses Steel Mill Gases to Power Turbine 12 THE biG PicTURE: Gas Taxes 14 PJM completes Unique dual-Primary control centers 14 PowER digest FocUS on o&M 16 level Switches Keep Electrostatic Precipitators online 18 Asian Sub-bituminous coal Users' Group Formed 20 condenser life cycle Seminar 20 Marmaduke Award Trophy Presented 23 correction lEGAl & REGUlAToRY 24 Green Technology = Green Jobs? By Steven F. Greenwald and Jeffrey P. Gray, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 11 66 nEw PRodUcTS coMMEnTARY 72 Upbraiding the Utilities By Dr. Paul M. Grant, IBM research staff member emeritus On the Web: International Solar Trade Dispute It's complicated. " U.S.-China Solar Trade Dispute Gets Thornier " in the Web Exclusives section of our home page at www.powermag.com helps you understand the myriad aspects of this important issue. The story will also be associated with this issue's " Global Monitor. " 2 www.powermag.com POWER | January 2012http://www.powermag.com http://www.powermag.com