·       A Number of Gas Turbine Projects in Western Africa

·       Renewable Energy Briefs

·       Utility E-Alert Headlines – October 24, 2014

·       “NO_x Reduction Innovations For Coal-Fired Power Plants” Hot Topic Webinar on November 6^th

·       McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

A Number of Gas Turbine Projects in Western Africa

Thanks to gas production in the region, there is now an affordable source of electricity in Western Africa.   As a result a number of gas turbine projects are in planning and construction in the region.  These are reported in Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Only 30 percent of Sub-Saharan Africans have access to electricity.  Planned and unplanned black-outs are common. The picture is improving in West Africa, but there is a long way to go.  Nigeria, which accounts for some 10 GW of the region’s total capacity, has a population of 173 million.  The U.S. has 100 times the electrical capacity with just twice as many residents.

There is a sharp divide between the better performing West African economies such as Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria where electrification rates range from 50 percent to 60 percent, and those such as Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea where rates range only to 15 percent to 20 percent penetration.   The recent Ebola outbreak has been attributed in part to the lack of electricity.

West Africa’s power production has risen by roughly 8 percent per year in the last few years and this rate of growth is expected to continue due to economic expansion in the region.  In Nigeria, more than a dozen gas-fired power plants totaling 5,000 MW are in planning and construction.

Power supply is the number one priority for the 13 countries in the West African Power Pool (WAPP). They need to boost the supply of power, for political and security reasons, in addition to the societal and economic ones.

Chinese, U.S. and other suppliers are targeting this market.  GE’s Distributed Power business will supply aeroderivative gas turbines in Nigeria to generate uninterrupted power at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s state oil refinery.  As a founding partner for President Obama’s Power Africa initiative, GE committed to help bring online 5,000 MW of new electric generation capacity in cooperation with the Initiative’s government and other private sector partners across six partner countries, including Nigeria.

For more information on the Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program, click on:

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/610-59ei.

Renewable Energy Briefs

U.S. General Services Administration Signs Power Purchase Agreement for 140 MW of Wind Energy in Illinois

MG2 Tribal Energy, a partnership between the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and renewable energy company, Geronimo Energy, is pleased to announce that the United States General Services Administration (GSA) has entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to purchase 140 megawatts (MW) of clean wind energy from the Walnut Ridge Wind Farm in western Illinois. The PPA was sourced via a competitive public Request for Proposal process through the GSA and marks the largest U.S. Federal Government wind energy contract signed in U.S. history.

Mesa Grande and Geronimo entered into a partnership to form MG2 Tribal Energy in order to jointly pursue renewable energy opportunities throughout the U.S. This PPA represents a first for MG2 Tribal Energy, with prospects for many more in the future.

The Walnut Ridge Wind Farm is currently under development with approximately 14,500 acres and up to 225 MW in the total projected footprint. The 140 MW PPA is estimated to produce approximately 500 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, eliminating an estimated 499,973 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions each year. 

The 140 MW PPA will bring an estimated $47 million of direct economic impact to the local area over 20 years, including: $21 million in additional tax revenue, $16 million in landowner payments, $560,000 in charitable gifts to the local community, and the creation of 10 full-time, permanent local jobs.

NJR Clean Energy Ventures Announces New 48 MW Onshore Wind Project

NJR Clean Energy Ventures, the unregulated distributed power subsidiary of New Jersey Resources (NJR), announced the acquisition of its third onshore wind project. The Alexander Wind Farm will be located on 7,000 acres of land in Rush County, KS, approximately 120 miles northwest of Wichita. NJRCEV will invest approximately $85 million to construct, own and operate the wind farm with a total capacity of 48 megawatts. NJRCEV’s expected in-service date is fall of 2015.

CEC GreatWall to Develop 60 MW of Satcon Powered Solar Installations in China

CEC GreatWall Energy, a division of China Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Co, Ltd (GWPC), announced that it will raise over $87 million dollars to fund the procurement and construction of multiple rooftop and ground mounted solar plants across the Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces in China, subject to the government final approvals.

The projects will add a combined capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) of solar power generation across Central and Eastern China and will utilize a mixture of Satcon PowerGate Plus and the recently introduced Satcon Galaxy Series inverter solutions.

The solar power plants will be a part of China’s National Energy Administration’s “12th 5-Year Plan” for the Development of Renewable Energy Resources. This newly announced program would increase distributed PV power generation capacity in the Central and Eastern parts of China to 10GW for local power supply by 2020.

SunEdison Awarded 17.7 MW of Distributed Solar Projects in California

SunEdison, Inc. a leading solar developer and technology provider, has been awarded 17.7 MW DC of distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) power projects through the Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project (R-REP) led by the County of Alameda.  SunEdison will be working with 9 different public agencies in the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa and San Mateo to develop projects on more than 30 individual sites as part of one of the largest ever public solar power procurements in the United States.

SunEdison will install solar systems at 30 individual locations. To accommodate different site requirements while optimizing solar production, SunEdison will deploy rooftop, canopy, and ground mount system technologies. All of the planned projects are being closely coordinated with each of the 9 agencies involved to ensure that each solar deployment is tailored to each site and agency's specific needs.  Upon completion, the portfolio will produce more than 27,700,000 kWh of clean solar power every year and will result in the reduction of more than 13,500 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Andritz to Supply New Waste to Energy Power Plant to Riikinvoima Oy, Finland

International technology Group Andritz has been selected by the local utility company Riikinvoima Oy to supply a waste-to-energy power plant to Leppävirta, Finland. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016.

The new plant is designed to treat 145,000 tons of waste per year coming from eight local waste management companies. The design capacity is 16 megawatts for electricity and 38 megawatts for district heating.

Andritz will supply a circulating fluidized bed boiler, waste fuel treatment and flue gas cleaning systems, a steam turbine, electrification, automation, and auxiliary systems.

For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/Renewable_Energy_Projects_Brochure/renewable_energy_projects_brochure.htm

Headlines for Utility E-Alert –October 24, 2014 

UTILITY E-ALERT    

#1197 – October 24, 2014                                        

Table of Contents

COAL – WORLD

• Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Energy Solutions (TBWES) wins Rs. 339 Crore Export Order

GAS/OIL – US

• Panda Power awards SCR Contract for Stonewall Combined Cycle Plant to LP Amina
• GRDA to pay $296 Million to construct Combined Cycle Power Plant in Oklahoma
• Wolverine plans Natural Gas-fired Power Plant for Otsego County, Michigan

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• Japanese Consortium builds Gas-fired Power Plant in Maputo, Mozambique
• Yokogawa wins Control System Order for Rabigh 2 Combined Cycle Power Plant in Saudi Arabia
• Power Machines develops Steam Turbine for Combined Cycle Power Plant at Verkhnetagilskaya SDPP, Russia
• Pembrokeshire's South Hook Gas-fired Power Station gets Planning Consent

CO₂

• Team Aquistore Project preparing for First Round of Carbon Dioxide Injection

NUCLEAR

§  Two UK Nuclear Power Plants Shut Down to Stop Boilers from Cracking

§  Turkey to build Third Nuclear Power Plant

§  180,000-pound CA05 Structural Module placed at Vogtle Unit 3

BUSINESS

• TECO Energy to sell Coal Mining Business for $170 Million
• The Future of Oil, Gas and Coal Dependent on Perception and Competition
• Industrial Scrubber System Revenues to Exceed $8 Billion In 2019

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• CDS vs. SDI vs. SDA in Dry Scrubber Hot Topic Discussion Yesterday
• “NO_x Reduction Innovations for Coal-fired Power Plants” to be conducted over the Internet on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at 10 a.m. CST
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on: 

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

 “NO_x Reduction Innovations for Coal-fired Power Plants” “Hot Topic” Webinar on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at 10 a.m.

Some issues to be addressed during the webinar are:

•     How does the need to remove mercury and reduce SO₃ change the catalyst selection?

•     Should you regenerate rather than discard catalyst?

•     How long will catalyst last before it is

         Cleaned,

         Renovated,

         Regenerated?

•     Where do hydrogen peroxide and ozone options make sense?

          In place of catalyst where NO_x levels are low

          Trim for SCR if very high efficiency needed

•     Where should you consider SNCR?

          As a substitute for SNCR

          In conjunction with SCR

•     Should you contract with a supplier to monitor, clean and replace catalyst as needed?

•     Where is the catalytic filter the best answer?

•     Do you also have to invest in SO₂ and particulate control?

•     Do you have a use for recovered heat from 850^oF clean gas?

•     Is space limited?

Panelists and others involved with the specification, supply, use or service of Coal-fired Power Plant NO_x Reduction equipment or services are invited to submit articles, case studies or white papers describing their equipment, services or experience prior to the date of the panel discussion. These or an abstract of them may be published in the Utility E-Alert and other of our newsletters as appropriate in the weeks preceding the panel to develop interest and questions from the potential audience. We will also post them on our web site so that potential attendees can review them.  Please send your white papers, articles and PP presentations to Dina Mohr at: mcilvaine_hot_topic_hour@earthlink.net with a copy to me.

Attendance at the panel discussions will be free for all utility personnel and panelists and there is no charge for publishing or posting the articles, case studies or white papers on our web site.

Click here to view schedule and register

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursday at 10 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Tracking System. The cost is $300.00 for non-subscribers.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input relative to suggested additions.

Click here for the Subscriber and Power Plant Owner/Operator Registration Form

Click here for the Non-Subscribers Registration Form   

Click here for the Free Hot Topic Hour Registration Form   

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