It is often said, “If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” As electricity costs rise, managers and operators of large chilled water plants are given the responsibility, and often a mandate, to ...

LOOKING AHEAD: A rendering of what the central utility plant at the University of Louisville's Belknap campus will look like once an ongoing updating project is complete. September 11, 2025 DAVIDSON, ...

After more than five years of discussion and proposals, preliminary plans are underway and a prospective site has been determined for a centralized chiller plant on the St. Paul campus. Cost estimates ...

As the ambient temperature increases, a gas turbine’s output decreases. Since spot market prices for power invariably increase in the summer, the reduced gas turbine output at high temperatures can ...

Dating back to the late 1980’s, the principle of inlet chilling has been utilized to increase power output of combustion gas turbines. Since gas turbines are constant volume machines, air mass flow ...

BRADENTON -- Downtown Bradenton recently became more energy efficient when the Manatee County Central Energy Plant went on line. With three county government buildings already being cooled by the ...