Who all works in the power industry???

I know there is a few of us on here who work in the industry. @Watt maker and @ColoradoTJ are ones I know for sure. Anyway just curious how many others there are. So lets post your job title and brief description of what you do I'll start.
I'm a control room operator for a large utility in Arizona. I operate simple cycle and combined cycle power generation units. I also used to be a Control operator for a coal plant with the same company.

 

I'm an Operator. Work with two retrofitted coal to gas boilers, an 800mw heavy oil unit, a 2 on 1 combined cycle unit and a water treatment/ demineralization plant.

I found out last month I'm getting laid off. So I'm applying for Operator jobs in North Carolina and Wyoming. The company did provide me a groundman job on a line crew but it's a major demotion and comes with a nasty pay cut.

 

Im hoping to head West. I have applications in with Duke Energy and Pacificorp. Also applied for a gov job at a hydro facility in Washington state. I've heard of Panda, they just built a plant Leesburg VA. I'll give them a look.

 

More or less, 2 units are being put into "cold reserve". In other words they'll never run again. They are 50's and 60's vintage. They are keeping our heavy oil unit and the combined cycle.

 

I’m a electrician at a combined 1800MW coal fired plant in Texas. Still fairly new, was commissioned in 2010, one Alstom unit and one B&W unit. One of if not the cleanest burning coal plant in the nation, I’ve been there since 8/12 and have enjoyed most of my time here.

 

I am a Substation Master Technician in Colorado. Right now I am at the Doble Life of a Transformer conference in Maryland.
Free food and booze!

 

We’re actually in our yearly outage at the moment, which happens to be a turbine outage. Here is a pic of one of our boiler feed pump turbines being replaced.

 

That's pretty slick. I didn't think they did steam driven feed pumps anymore. Everything's about that almighty heat rate nowadays. Our unit 4 has one. She's 1960s vintage.

 

In sorry to hear that. It's good they provided you with a position so worst case scenario you won't be out of work. I wish you the best and I hope your able to find a opportunity elsewhere. Good luck!

 

Yes unfortunately this is why I left the coal industry the company I work said they are going to close our coal unit down so I opted to leave early.

 

Long story short, these 2 units were originally started being built in the late 70s but for whatever reason the company I work for decided to hold off and store them for 30yrs then finish building them. So these are an older design boiler that they attached baghouses and scrubberers to, upgraded the generator and took them from 750MW to 900MW. Bit of a Frankenstein.

 

I’m a Security Officer at Palo Verde Generating Station (nuclear) in AZ. Been there a year and love it

 

One of the highest rated in the nation. Most guys are prior military and law enforcement. Very professional organization. Helps that we work directly for APS and aren’t contract. That’s when things usually go down hill because officers aren’t vested and aligned with the company. We are treated very well and perform well because of it

 

My Father retired from CEI Cleveland Illuminating Company up on Lake Erie. I use to scaffold all the boilers nothing worse than a bitchey pipe fitter changing boiler walls...

 

Can’t get into many details but it’s not like that at all at our plant, let’s just say we’re a lot more “proactive” and our state laws make it very easy for us to “take care of business” if needed. AZ has passed laws specifically granting nuclear security officers authority to use lethal force in protection of property, not just personal protection

 

Our guards are either gay, old, suffering from hot flashes, or about 300lbs... but they have 45acp glocks with rubber bullets lol

 

At least yours are armed.... Our "security" arrives at 6 and leaves at 3... No one else there overnight.

Our nuke stations are another story. Armed to the teeth and ready for anything.

 

I work for a very large utility in Ohio at a large coal fired plant still in service. Machinist here and working on my 39th year in same plant entire career. I mainly do vibration data collection and analysis currently. Been a good paying job all those years too. Unfortunately coal is dying out thanks to the previous POTUS. I will be fine because I have prepared for retirement and this happening. Sorry to see all of the younger folks suffer though. We have three older units retired. Three units still in service- one 840MW, and two identical 440MW units. All units have scrubbers attached. Our drawback these days is mercury in our coal supply. EPA regs are crippling our plant. The engineers are trying all sorts of hocus pocus fixes to try to capture more airborne mercury. Some work, most don't. But they try like hell to keep us going.

 

Previously yes. 9 years nuclear power station shutdowns (electrician at various plants) and 2 years building powerlines in North Carolina.