Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply a 56-megawatt (MW) Smart Power Generation power plant to Coffeyville Municipal Light and Power (CMLP) in Kansas, USA. The power station will consist of three gas-fired Wärtsilä 50SG engines, and is scheduled to start commercial operation in January 2017. The new power plant will improve CMLP’s position in the…
Low gas prices may be good for the wind industry
Conventional wisdom has it that the low price of gasoline will not harm the wind industry, mostly because oil and wind function in different areas of the economy. The wind industry produces electric power. The oil industry largely does not. However, the two are linked in a way that may provide good news for the…
Report examines impact of natural gas on U.S. electric power
The Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) has released a new report, “Natural Gas and the Transformation of the U.S. Energy Sector: Electricity.The study is said to provide a new approach to estimate natural gas related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, track trends in regulatory and voluntary industry practices, and explore various electricity futures. “There…
What cheap natural gas means to the wind industry
The recent abundance of inexpensive natural gas in the U.S. economy has been good news for the utilities, but less so for participants such as the nuclear and coal industries. The wind industry, it seems to me, is on a sort of cusp. With a few technical improvements, wind turbines could play quite nicely with…