The cost of new coal-fired power plant construction today is in the neighborhood of $2 million to $3 million per MW. A new facility must then be staffed and operated with new resources and additional ...

Chiller plant control optimization has achieved heightened popularity over time as computerized controls enable increasingly sophisticated algorithms to maximize plant efficiency. In a predicted ...

Nuclear power plant outages demand efficiency, safety, and a high level of coordination to execute time-critical tasks and bring plants back online quickly. When a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant ...

Our electric system is evolving at an unprecedented rate and scale. Placing tremendous pressure on traditionally stable processes are the acceleration of renewables penetration, onshoring of ...

Steam turbine technology is not stagnant. Advanced designs are incorporating innovations in blade design, advanced materials, precision manufacturing, and high-energy steam cycles, delivering ...

TOKYO, Jul 9, 2025 - (JCN Newswire) - - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, "Hitachi"), announced today the development of a new "Metaverse Platform for Nuclear Power Plants" that leverages a metaverse and AI ...

The conversation around asphalt plant emissions can be highly technical, and sometimes confusing. However, with the passage of new legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, there are more direct ...

Many decisions are made during the design of a chilled water plant that have long-lasting impacts on the facility’s energy use and demand. Additionally, consistent operations, benchmarking, and ...

Pearl oyster, elm oyster, and blue oyster mushroom mycelium in jars in Robert Jinkerson's lab at UC Riverside. (photo: Robert Jinkerson/UCR) Improving plants’ efficiency at using solar energy could ...

Intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) reflects how efficiently plants assimilate carbon relative to water loss at the leaf ...

For manufacturing digitization to succeed, leaders have to know what they’re going to do with the manufacturing plant data before ever seeing it. Mauricio Casares, smart factory improvement manager at ...