·        100,000 Companies Supply or Specify Flow and Treatment Products and Services

·        Gas Turbine Expenditures to Exceed $106 Billion In 2014

·        Renewable Energy Briefs     

·        Headlines for the December 13, 2013 - Utility E-Alert

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

100,000 Companies Supply or Specify Flow and Treatment Products and Services

More than 100,000 companies supply or specify products and services to control the flow or treat air, gas, water and liquids.  Twenty thousand of these companies are identified along with contacts in the McIlvaine OEM Networking Directory.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

These companies are generating revenues of more than $300 billion.  However, no one company dominates the market. The top thirty companies account for only 15 percent of global sales.

Top Five Fluid Treatment & Control Companies

($ Millions)

The directory includes contacts at the architect/engineer and consulting companies.  Companies such as Black & Veatch and URS have historically been more influential in the U.S. market than in other countries. With aggressive expansion of services, their influence is becoming more widespread.   Nevertheless, in many countries the design decisions are made by large engineering/construction companies such as Doosan who purchase the products as part of turn-key systems which they provide.

Doosan Market Segments

(The revenues are in $ billions and show the total market for 2013 (not the Doosan share)

* includes vacuum bags and face masks as well as HVAC

Current coverage      

Purchased as part of EPC activity

Doosan recently purchased assets of AEE Lentjes GMBH and increased its air pollution control scope. It is the largest supplier of desalination plants in the world. It is a major supplier of boilers and related systems for the power industry.

The purchaser is challenged by two complexities:

1.      Many companies have specialized subsidiaries who supply one of the products but not others.

2.      Translation of company and subsidiary names between picture and letter based languages is inexact

To address the first problem, McIlvaine has provided lists of products sold by each subsidiary.  This is shown at:

· View and Correct Your Product Listings 

 (This example only shows products but not the full display with contact names and e-mails.)

To address the language inconsistencies, McIlvaine has assigned a financial entity number to each company and the typical spelling in both English and Chinese.

The directory covers the complete supply chain.  At the top are the consulting companies who specify the range of equipment and systems.  At the next level are the equipment procurement contractors (EPC).  At the third level are the systems suppliers.  Level 4 is the major product suppliers e.g. fabric filter.  Level 5 would be the components for the product e.g. filter bag suppliers.  Level 6 are the components for level 5 e.g. filter media, adhesives. Level 6 includes the basic materials suppliers e.g. resins, stainless steel.

For more information on the OEM Networking Directory, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/people/2-uncategorised/101-53di

Gas Turbine Expenditures to Exceed $106 Billion In 2014

Suppliers of gas turbine systems and components will generate revenues of $75 billion in 2014. Another $31 billion will be spent for operating and maintenance. This is the latest forecast in McIlvaine Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

The largest expenditure will be for the turbines. However, heat recovery is a growing portion of the total as more operators elect the combined cycle mode.  Dry cooling is also becoming more popular. There is a higher capital cost associated with dry than with wet cooling even when the water treatment is taken into account.

This does not take into account revenues received from ongoing operation and maintenance. The cost of replacement air filters is significant. Replacement catalysts are another ongoing expense.  Ammonia for NO_x reduction, polymers for water treatment and other chemicals for corrosion control and scaling prevention result in significant expenditures for chemicals.

The installed base is the equivalent of 1.4 million MW.  Fixed O&M costs based on $13/kW/yr will be $18 billion. Variable O&M costs based on $3.60/mWh x 3,000 hrs average will be $13 billion.  The total expenditure by utilities, gas and oil producers and other gas turbine operators will be $106 billion in 2014.

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

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

Renewable Energy Briefs

Siemens Energy Announces World’s Largest Onshore Wind Turbine Order

Siemens Energy confirmed that the 1,050-megawatt (MW) wind turbine order it recently received from MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest onshore wind turbine order in the world. The news was announced at a commemoration event at Siemens’ blade manufacturing facility in Fort Madison, IA.

MidAmerican Energy’s order consists of 448 Siemens wind turbines for five project sites which, together, will deliver 1,050 megawatts of additional wind generation in Iowa by the end of 2015. Construction activity is underway at each of the project sites.

Siemens Energy’s Fort Madison, IA, facility will manufacture all the blades, while the nacelles and hubs will be assembled at the Siemens plant in Hutchinson, KS. All projects will utilize Siemens’ 2.3-megawatt, G2 platform wind turbines and will be installed at MidAmerican Energy’s 500-megawatt Highland wind project in O’Brien County; 250-megawatt Lundgren wind project in Webster County; 138.6-megawatt Wellsburg wind project in Grundy County; and 117-megawatt Macksburg wind project located in Madison County. The order also called for 19 wind turbines at the 44-megawatt Vienna II wind project expansion in Marshall County, which is fully constructed and delivering energy to Iowans. In addition to the wind turbines, the contract also includes a service, maintenance and warranty agreement.

Once complete, the new wind projects will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of approximately 317,000 average Iowa households.

Etrion and Total Secure Financing with OPIC for 70 MWp Salvador Solar Project in Chile

Etrion Corporation and SunPower Corp. announced that financing has been secured for construction of the 70-megawatt-peak (MWp) Salvador project in the Atacama region of Chile. Project Salvador will be the world's largest solar power plant based on spot market electricity (merchant) revenues.

Project Salvador will initially operate on a merchant basis where the electricity produced will be sold on the spot market and delivered to the Sistema Interconectado Central (SIC) electricity network, with the ability to secure future power purchase agreements (PPAs). The solar power plant will be built on 133 hectares leased from the Chilean government through a long-term concession. The facility will connect through the power infrastructure of Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco).

Once operational, Project Salvador is expected to produce approximately 200 gigawatt-hours of solar electricity per year, enough to supply electricity to approximately 80,000 households in Chile.

Waste2Tricity International (Thailand) Acquires Exclusive License for Alter NRG Westinghouse Plasma Technology in Thailand

Waste2Tricity Ltd announced that its subsidiary Waste2Tricity International (Thailand) Limited, has converted its option for exclusive access to the Alter NRG Corp Westinghouse Plasma Gasification Technology in Thailand into a full exclusive license agreement. The license is for all applications of the Westinghouse plasma technology in the Thailand market for an initial term of five years at a price of $2 million. Waste2Tricity has paid $1 million, with the remaining $1 million payable in December 2014.

Waste2Tricity will now embark on an aggressive deployment strategy to enable a multiple roll out in Thailand of 1,000 tons per day systems. Smaller Westinghouse Plasma Corp systems may also be built. In conjunction with the existing exclusive license for AFC Energy fuel cells, the Westinghouse Plasma Gasification license ensures that Waste2Tricity has both the key technologies required to dominate the Thai waste market in years to come.

The Waste2Tricity process is an environmentally responsible method of disposing of waste, converting 100 percent of the waste into either energy or a useable aggregate, eliminating any methane emissions from rotting waste, eliminating ash which is produced using other thermal treatment methods like incineration, and when fuel cells are available, eliminating stack emissions and enabling the capture of carbon dioxide creating a carbon negative model.

Himark BioGas Now Digests 73,000 Tons/Year of Municipal Organic Waste Using Its Patented Anaerobic Digestion Technology

An anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at Growing Power Hairy Hill L.P. in Canada is utilizing Himark BioGas International’s (Himark) patented IMUS™ technology to digest 200 tons/day or 73,000 tons/year of municipal solid waste and organics (MSW) from residences and businesses in the metropolitan Edmonton region (suburban communities outside of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada such as Leduc, Beaumont, Devon and Sherwood Park) for conversion into renewable energy.

The plant, commissioned in 2005, initially processed extremely contaminated feedstock including sand-laden cattle manure and slaughterhouse waste, as well as ethanol stillage. More recently, the opportunity became available to handle a majority of the organics from the metropolitan Edmonton region and surrounding areas, MSW and SSO which the plant can easily handle.

“Today the organic material that GPHH is handling is being diverted from landfills around Alberta. These include municipal Source-Separated Organics (SSO), food processing waste, and sewer sludge. These materials are converted to energy via accelerated natural breakdown processes in one of the largest AD plants in North America, thanks to technology and know-how from Himark BioGas,” said Eugene N. Choimah, General Manager of GPHH. Mr. Choimah added, “The process produces methane – a completely renewable substitute for natural gas – and that methane not only drives generators connected to Alberta’a power grid, it also feeds boilers in an adjacent industrial plant. In a very real way, citizens generating waste are supplying themselves with green electricity for their homes and ‘ultra-low carbon’ fuel for their cars!”

JMC Homes, PetersenDean and Canadian Solar Offer Solar as Standard in New Lincoln, CA Home Community

JMC Homes recently opened The Executive Series at Lakeside in Lincoln, CA, offering all new homes with solar as standard, in a partnership with PetersenDean Roofing & Solar and Canadian Solar.

The master-planned community recently held a grand re-opening releasing two new models with solar as standard. While many new home communities offer solar as an option, The Executive Series at Lakeside is one of the few communities that offer solar as a standard feature on all of its homes.

The community has 150 homes with 1.5 kW Canadian Solar Standard on every home powered by what are considered some of the industry’s highest-efficiency solar modules backed by a 25-year linear product warranty and warranty insurance, offered by Canadian Solar.

The homebuyers have the opportunity to upgrade to as much as 5 kW on their homes. The estimated annual energy savings for a home with a 5kW system is about $1,700 a year or $85 a month. Tax credits totaling about $2,500 are also available for most homeowners with solar roofing.

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 the December 13, 2013 – Utility E-Alert      

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1154– December 13, 2013                                

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• Xcel must consider a Range of Options, including Closing Sherco 1 and 2
• OTR States file Petition with EPA to add Upwind States to OTR
• NRG to Retire Chalk Point and Dickerson Coal-fired Units
• Kentucky Power to convert 278 MW Big Sandy 1 to Natural Gas
• Sierra Club delivers Notice of Intent to Sue Ameren Power Plants in MO
• Consumer Energy to proceed with Retirement of 950 MW of Coal-fired Power Plants
• Court Arguments this Week on CSAPR and Mercury Limits

COAL – WORLD

• EPC Bidding for 460 MW Mauban 2 (Quezon, Philippines) will begin early 2014
• Pakistan to convert Two Oil-fired Power Plants to Coal-firing
• EVN to take Legal Action for Delays in Walsum Power Project
• Therma South plans to Expand Davao (Philippines) Power Plant by 345 MW
• Tokyo Gas could invest in Coal-fired Power Plants
• Pakistan to help with Development of 600 MW Power Plant next to Thar Coal Reserves
• NTPC to start Construction of 1320 MW Katwa Power Plant (West Bengal, India)
• Norberto Odebrecht -Tecnimont to build Dominican Republic Power Plant

GAS/OIL - US

• GE to finance Construction of Invenergy’s 584-MW Nelson Power Plant

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• Capital Power/Enmax to develop 1050 MW Genesee 4 and 5 in Canada
• GDF SUEZ to build 500 MW Ilo 3 Power Plant in Peru
• Wood Group to convert Gas Turbine in China to DLN Combustion System

COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES/BOILER EFFICIENCY

• 210 MW Gusinoozyorskaya 4 in Siberia gets Metso Automation System

CO₂

• White Rose CCS Project in UK gets Government Money for Engineering

NUCLEAR

• Kenya completes Feasibility Study for Nuclear Power Plant
• UniStar drops Plans for Nine Mile Point Power Plant
• Bulgaria negotiates with Toshiba/Westinghouse for Nuclear Power Plant Construction

BUSINESS

• World Expenditures for Mercury Control will Be Large and the Decisions Difficult
• More than 50 Percent of the World’s Air Pollution Control Revenues will be in Asia by 2017
• Market for Air Filters to Reach $7 Billion by 2015
• EUEC Will Be an Important Event for the Power and Environmental Industries

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “Update on Gasification Projects and Technology” was the Hot Topic Hour on December 12
• “Selecting FGD Scrubber Components” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on December 19, 2013

§  Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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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 $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.

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 $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.

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