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Generation Operator (Associate, Mid or Senior-Level) – Portland, Oregon – 110567 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

May 22, 2023

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Evaluate the Day Ahead Resource Operations Plan and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) optimized market solution and execute the plans within the constraints of real-time system conditions. Validate accuracy of load and variable energy resource (VER) forecasts, and dispatch system generation efficiently, to balance the electric system deliver the lowest net power cost solution to customers. Ensure compliance with all applicable reliability requirements of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Responsibilities of this position include the following:

Maintain compliance with NERC/FERC/WECC and Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) requirements.
Maintain accurate unit capabilities in the Energy Supply Management System (EMS) and CAISO Market Model.
Reliably and economically balance current system load and resource requirements.
Determine available excess supply to be marketed by Marketing Function Employees (MFEs).

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Generation Operator (Associate, Mid or Senior-Level) – Portland, Oregon – 110231 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

April 28, 2023

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Evaluate the Day Ahead Resource Operations Plan and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) optimized market solution and execute the plans within the constraints of real-time system conditions. Validate accuracy of load and variable energy resource (VER) forecasts, and dispatch system generation efficiently, to balance the electric system deliver the lowest net power cost solution to customers. Ensure compliance with all applicable reliability requirements of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Responsibilities of this position include the following:

Maintain compliance with NERC/FERC/WECC and Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) requirements.
Maintain accurate unit capabilities in the Energy Supply Management System (EMS) and CAISO Market Model.
Reliably and economically balance current system load and resource requirements.
Determine available excess supply to be marketed by Marketing Function Employees (MFEs).

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Researchers at Sandia Lab Successfully Test New Power Generation Technology

September 13, 2022

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico announced they completed a successful test of a new power-generating technology, delivering electricity to the local grid using an energy conversion system that they say could drive a major increase in efficiency for power plants across the U.S. and perhaps the world.

The researchers, in a news release from the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy, said they developed a simple recuperated closed-loop Brayton cycle that uses supercritical carbon dioxide (CO₂) as the working fluid. The lab said the gas runs through a continuous loop of being pressurized, heated, and expanded through a turbine to generate electricity. After the fluid exits the turbine, it is cooled in a recuperator before returning to a compressor to complete the cycle.

Want to learn more about supercritical CO₂? Read this POWER Interview with a program director from the Gas Technology Institute. And go here to read a library of articles about supercritical CO₂ published by POWER in recent years.…

Breakthrough for Clean Power Generation, Mainspring Announces World’s First Generator to Run Both Hydrogen and Ammonia Fuels

June 24, 2022

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Ammonia and hydrogen combination Join over 1800 sectoral experts: Ammonia and Hydrogen
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India Plans to Reduce Coal-Fired Generation, and Mine More Coal

May 30, 2022

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India’s Power Ministry, despite the country facing shortages of electricity in recent years and as recently as the past month, said it plans to reduce the amount of power generation from at least 81 of the country’s 173 coal-fired power plants over the next four years.

The agency, in a letter dated May 26 that was sent to top federal government, state, and energy department officials, said the country needs to support renewable resources to maximize cleaner power generation and reduce energy costs. The agency, though, said the plan does not include closing older coal-fired power plants.

“The thermal power plants in [the] future shall operate up to the technical minimum to accommodate cheaper renewable energy when it is available,” the ministry said in the letter. The International Energy Agency has said India, with a population of about 1.4 billion, is expected to see its demand for electricity more than double by 2030. Much of that demand comes as more and more homes and offices install air conditioning.…

Inline Oil Condition Analysis on Power Generation Engines

January 29, 2021

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The post Inline Oil Condition Analysis on Power Generation Engines appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Oil and lubricants play a critical role in the operation of natural gas and biogas power generation engines, for example, in combined cycle (CC) and combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The oil condition gives valuable insight in the running status of the engine and many critical failures can be flagged.

Benefits of Real-time Monitoring

Conventionally, plant engineers operating and maintaining high-value assets, such as gas engines for power generation, rely on taking oil samples periodically and sending them to a laboratory for analysis. That whole supply chain is very laborious, but more importantly, it introduces a large time lag in the reporting of the oil condition that is lubricating critical parts of the system.

With real-time monitoring (Figure 1) of the oil condition, engineers and operators can have more intimate knowledge of their high-value power generation engine. The cost of ownership vastly decreases by having faster reaction time to failures or trends, by having effective maintenance and service planning, and allowing the plant engineers to extend oil change intervals and minimize engine downtime.…