Combined cycle power plants use both gas and steam turbines to generate electricity, making them more efficient than plants that use only one type. The design of a plant, including whether it’s single ...

SaskPower’s new combined-cycle gas plant is now generating power to the provincial grid. The 370 megawatt (MW) Great Plains Power Station is now online near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The plant is ...

Many combined cycle power plants (CCPP) and cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) plants utilize supplemental firing systems, or duct burners, inside the heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) ...

The evolving regulatory landscape has presented power generation utilities with a complex choice as they consider large-scale gas generation projects and whether to build simple-cycle or ...

Simple cycle gas turbines provide efficiency levels of around 35% to 40%. Combined cycle units boost efficiency to 60% and beyond. But another option is emerging that combines the attributes of simple ...