At the end of July, India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) noted in its annual load generation balance report (LGBR) for the year 2018–2019 that the country will likely have a… ...

“What is the diversity ratio of the sum of the individual building peak load demands system when compared to the peak demand of the entire chilled water system plant hour by hour?” Without the answer ...

Life-cycle cost of ownership is a common metric used to compare power plant system alternatives. However, the familiar formula for calculating the cost of generating electricity omits factors that are ...

Faced with competitive pressures to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions, owners and operators of industrial and commercial facilities are actively looking for ways to use energy more efficiently. As ...

The plant load factor (the ratio of actual generation to maximum possible generation) of India’s thermal power plants fell in April 2025 to 73.85 per cent, from 77.51 per cent in April 2024. The ...

Heat rate is often the single most important factor in a coal-fired power plant’s economic and emissions profile. Expressed in Btu/kWh or GJ/kWh, heat rate is a measure of efficiency: the quantity of ...

In the future solar power plants will be as plentiful as personal computers or cell phones are today and they will generate energy on demand. Today I have witnessed the future of energy: a solar power ...