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The POWER Interview: Ensuring Successful Power Plant Decommissioning

Darrell Proctor — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:36:46 +0000

Keith Kotimko is the U.S. Decommissioning and Demolition Leader for WSP, a full-service solution provider that offers comprehensive facility decommissioning and demolition services. Kotimko provided POWER with insight into the process of permanently shutting down a power generation facility. He emphasized that decommissioning is a separate activity from demolition.

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Essential Prep and Closeout of Demolition Projects—What Power Plant Owners Need to Know

POWER — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:06:00 +0000

Industrial demolition projects of any scale are complex undertakings that require much more than just knocking things down and cleaning them up. Quite the opposite, in fact. Demolition, including of a retired

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Revolutionizing Refractory Maintenance: Increasing Efficiency with Specialized Equipment

POWER — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:19:21 +0000

Refractory maintenance, though vital, can often be a logistical and financial burden. This is especially true for power plants, cement plants, and other large facilities that rely on boilers, kilns, coolers, preheater towers, and risers for day-to-day operation. These facilities stand to lose many thousands of dollars a day in production if their refractory can’t […]

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Charah Solutions Places Final 20% of All Real Property Acreage at Former TMPA Gibbons Creek Steam Electric Station Under Contract

Press Release — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:23:38 +0000

In Less than One Year Since Acquisition, Environmental Risk Transfer Services Leader Has Successfully Executed Contracts for the Sale of 100% of Real Property Acreage and Demolition of Power Plant; Remediation of Existing Ash Ponds and Landfills Underway Proven Environmental Risk Transfer Services Model Benefits Utility Partners, Shareholders, Local Communities and the Environment LOUISVILLE, KY […]

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Key Pre-Demolition Considerations for Fossil Fuel Power Plants

Contributed Content — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:47:14 +0000

As the existing electric generation infrastructure matures, electric generation system owners are looking to the future for newer and greener technologies to meet the demands of electric consumption. An important part of this future perspective may include the demolition and removal of older generation plants and facilities to free up land resources for new development. Prior […]

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Explosions Topple Smokestacks of Iconic Navajo Generating Station

Darrell Proctor — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:07:02 +0000

Demolition of the Navajo Generating Station, a 2,400-MW coal-fired power plant that generated electricity for several cities in the U.S. Southwest, continued Dec. 18 as explosions brought down the facility’s three large smokestacks. The plant was closed in November 2019. The NGS, located near Page, Arizona, is being demolished by Salt River Project (SRP). The […]

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Well-Planned Retirement: Keys to Successful Coal Plant Decommissioning

POWER — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Hundreds of coal-fired power plants are now retired or facing retirement in the near future, and utilities face a number of decisions. Are there commercial reuse options for the plant or the site itself? Are

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Watch Stack Come Down at Florida Power Plant

Darrell Proctor — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:00:37 +0000

JEA, the electric utility in Jacksonville, Florida, has been decommissioning the St. Johns River Power Park over the past year. A third implosion as part of the decommissioning occurred July 19, as a 640-foot-tall stack and two steam generating boilers were demolished. Friday’s work followed similar implosions in June 2018, when the plant’s two, 464-foot-tall […]

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Video Shows Demolition of Old German Coal Plant

Darrell Proctor — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:29:08 +0000

The Gustav Knepper power plant in Dortmund-Mengede, Germany, was leveled by two controlled explosions on February 17. The facility had been closed for five years. The plant’s boiler house was brought down first. A 210-meter chimney and 128-meter cooling tower were leveled in a second blast, about 45 minutes after the first. The German YouTube […]

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One Dead, Three Missing After Power Plant Collapse

Aaron Larson — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:39:33 +0000

Shortly after 4 p.m. on February 23, part of the boiler house at the Didcot A Power Station in Oxfordshire, UK, unexpectedly collapsed, killing one person. Three others are missing and feared dead. The plant—located about 55 miles west of London—was closed in March 2013 and was in the process of being demolished by Coleman […]

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