UTILITY E-ALERT

#1069 – April 6, 2012

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COAL – US

• Mississippi PSC issues Temporary Certificate allowing Construction to continue at Kemper IGCC
• PA DEP approves Emissions Control Equipment for Homer City

• Court orders Firm Deadlines for EPA to approve SIP Plans for Regional Haze

• Black & Veatch has EPC Contract for ACI, Dry FGD, Fabric Filter

COAL – WORLD

• 2x1000 MW Power Plant for Elektrownia Polnoc in Bidding Stage in Poland
• NTPC slates Investment for 1,320 MW Power Projects in Mouda and Solapur
• CIC Energy continuing Development of 1200 MW Mmamabula Project in Botswana
• Alstom to Modernize Kozienice in Poland
• Coal India told to pledge 80 Percent of its Coal Supply to Power Plants
• Korea East West Power Co. buys Coal on International Market

GAS / OIL – US

• Progress Energy to convert Anclote to Natural Gas-firing
• PG&E appeals 586 MW Oakley Power Plant Court Ruling

GAS / OIL – WORLD

• Saudi Arabia completes Loan for Rabigh Power Plant
• Uzbekistan to build 370 MW Combined Cycle Unit at Tashkent
• GE provides Gas turbine to Bolgiano CHP Plant in Italy

CO₂

• UK Relaunches £1 Billion Carbon Capture Competition

NUCLEAR

• Belarus could build Second Nuclear Power Plant
• NRC approves License for 2x1100 MW Summer Expansion
• Bataan will stay Mothballed
• Xcel questioning Economics of Prairie Island Expansion
• Hitachi signs Agreement to build Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania

BUSINESS

• Emerson Control System to be installed at Indonesia Coal-fired Power Plant

 HOT TOPIC HOUR

• "Status of Gasification and IGCC" was the Hot Topic Hour on April 5, 2012
• "Mercury Measurement and Control" is Hot Topic Hour on April 12, 2012
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