Several USA plants have completed or have refueling and maintenance outages ongoing this spring. Below is a brief recap of USA outage activities. Fermi’s Outage Fermi 2 completed its 16th refueling outage early this year. The plant completed more than 15,000 separate activities during the outage, including inspections and equipment maintenance activities. In addition to...

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Columbia Generating Station’s Operations Vice President Grover Hettel has served on the Utilities Service Alliance’s senior leadership core peer team for about two years. Hettel recently sat down to talk about being a part of the USA team. What is the USA site leadership team? The site leadership team (SLT) is made up of vice...

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Picture this in your plant: Improper fasteners holding together an air conditioning unit, a random drain hose leading to a floor drain or a pipe without the proper heat-resistant insulation and/or coatings. It shouldn’t be too difficult to imagine — these are some of the examples of unauthorized temporary modifications once found at plants in...

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The Utilities Service Alliance (USA) has named Andrew Brown as the fleet’s Manager-Performance Analysis effective immediately. Brown is on loan from fleet member Xcel Energy where he spent the past six years coordinating performance indicators, corrective action and other performance improvement related programs. He also served as project manager for the rollout of Observation Way...

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Building strong business relationships can have many benefits. Recently, USA member Xcel Energy received the Corporate Partner Award for demonstrating its commitment to maintaining relationships with a broad base of suppliers. The award, given by the National Association of Minority Contractors-Midwest Chapter, acknowledges Xcel Energy for its contract with minority supplier Shaw-Lundquist to build a...

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