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MATERIALS
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58 Titanium Tubing Still Going Strong After 40 Years
Titanium has proven an indispensable material, especially where operating conditions
are challenging. Though it has a stellar four-decade record of immunity to corrosion,
new applications continue to be explored.
REGULATORY ISSUES
61 FERC Surrenders Jurisdiction over Station Power in California
In an unusual move, a federal agency's decision to not exercise its authority is meeting
with protests from industry. Get the big picture here and details of the situation's
legal history in our online supplement at www.powermag.com.
ELECTRIC POWER 2011: WHERE THE GENCOS MEET
62 Consolidation, Market Distortions Underlie Remarks by Industry Executives
Want to know what keeps power industry executives awake at night? If you couldn't
make it to ELECTRIC POWER in Chicago, this is your chance to find out what the
panelists were concerned about this year.
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66 Nuclear Power in the Shadow of Fukushima
There was no question that recent events in Japan would color the remarks about
nuclear power at this year's ELECTRIC POWER Conference. Nevertheless, speakers
argued that small, modular reactors could significantly minimize both safety and
financing risks.
68 Solid Fuels: Moving Material and Managing Emissions
Unless you've been too busy to read this magazine for many months, you know
that the big news in fossil fuels is renewables-specifically, biomass. What you may
not know-even if you are a regular reader-is that we're learning lessons from
biomass that transfer to coal handling.
70 Utilities Increase Renewable Energy Capacity
Four major utilities shared their approaches to increasing the renewable generation
portion of their portfolios. Though some of their challenges are universal, others are
tied to geography.
73 Sunny Days Ahead for U.S. Solar Energy Sector
Several factors are leading to decreased costs for solar generation, and the North
American market is responding with more, and larger, facilities.
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DEPARTMENTS
SPEAKING OF POWER
6 Bad Gas Policy
GLOBAL MONITOR
8 Pushing the 60% Efficiency Gas Turbine Barrier
10 Germany to Shut Down All Nuclear Reactors
10 TEPCO: Most Fuel at Daiichi 1 Melted
12 Holtec, Westinghouse Roll Out Small Modular Reactor Designs
14 Carbon Trust: Marine Energy Has High Potential but Faces Several Challenges
15 POWER Digest
FOCUS ON O&M
Where Is Wind Headed?
POWER was at the 2011 WINDPOWER
conference this May, speaking with a
host of international offshore and onshore
wind industry experts, as well as
turbine and component developers, to
gauge the key issues affecting this sector.
See what they had to say in our
web exclusive, " Charting the Wind:
Where the Sector Is Headed, " at www
.powermag.com.
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18 Texas Competitive Model Spreads to Pennsylvania and Illinois
20 New Opportunities Abound for Retail Electric Suppliers
22 Predictive Maintenance That Works
LEGAL & REGULATORY
24 California's New RPS: Opportunity Squandered
By Steven F. Greenwald and Jeffrey P. Gray, Davis Wright Tremaine
74 NEW PRODUCTS
COMMENTARY
80 Geothermal Projects Race to Meet Incentives Deadlines
By Leslie Blodgett, editor-in-chief of Geothermal Weekly
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