Prairie Island named Chris Younie as the new plant manager effective April 21, 2014. Younie comes to Prairie Island from INPO, where he has been a Plant Evaluation Team Leader. Prior to joining INPO in 2007, Younie worked at Callaway in Fulton, Mo., where he was manager of Business Operation and Operations. He also spent...

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Many fine suppliers applied for USA’s annual Continuous Improvement award, which was awarded in January of this year. Though we couldn’t give awards to all of these suppliers, we wanted to, so throughout the year we are going to spread the word about the good things our suppliers have been up to. This article is...

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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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Each year, thousands of students visit USA fleet member PSEG Nuclear and its Energy & Environmental Resource Center (EERC) community information center. Recently, a group of students from the Russian “closed city” of Novouralsk made the visit as they toured the United States to learn more about the American nuclear industry. The visit was organized...

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STP employees were out in force on Friday, March 7, participating in the annual Matagorda County American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. The walkathon to support cancer research began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended with the closing lap Saturday morning at 5 a.m. A total of more than $113,000 was raised at this...

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