Steam turbines are used in many applications on various scales to drive equipment such as pumps, compressors, and generators. Routine maintenance, as laid out by the original equipment manufacturer ...

Despite its price volatility, natural gas is still the technology of choice for many power plant projects. In 2009, 23,475 MW of new generation capacity are planned in the U.S. Of this, more than 50 ...

Figure 1. New silencer baffles are being hoisted to the duct. Simple cycle power plants are an integral part of our current electrical generating network, as they can be quickly started and stopped to ...

The potential financial benefits from Industry 4.0 are apparent to plant owners in almost all sectors. The wind power industry is no exception, and existing vendors such as GE (Predix/Digital Windfarm ...

Wind turbine technicians dangle from heights of up to 360 feet to work on wind turbines. João Sardo has been working as a wind turbine specialist for nearly 20 years. Renewable energy is booming in ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstreet, a Houston-based lower middle market private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired TOPS Field Services, LLC (“TOPS” or “the Company”), ...

Perceptual Robotics raises funding from Loggerhead Ventures and One Planet Capital to scale autonomous wind turbine ...

CRISFIELD, MD—The wind turbine in Crisfield has once more come to a standstill, just two weeks after crews successfully started it spinning for the first time in nearly a year. The latest setback is ...

The maintenance arm of a South African electricity provider is better able to plan for ultrasonic testing of the steam turbine blades in its power plants. Part of why people seem skeptical of the ...