Power Air Quality Insights No

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 Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers.

	2012
DATE	SUBJECT
September 27	Coal-fired Boiler Optimization – Part 1	Power
October 11	Coal-fired Boiler Optimization – Part 2	Power
October 18	Air Preheaters & Heat Exchangers	Power
October 25	Instrumentation for air, gas, water, liquids (forecasts, market shares, growth segments).	Market Intelligence
November 1	Cooling Towers and Cooling Water Issues	Power
November 8	FGD Scrubber Components	Power
November 15	Dampers and Expansion Joints for Coal-fired and Gas Turbine Power Plants	Power
November 29	Catalyst Selection for NO_x and Other Gases	Power

December 6	Boiler Feed and Cooling Water Treatment	Power
December 13	Co-firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass and Municipal Waste	Power
	2013
January 10	Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion	Power
January 17	Production of Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid at Coal-fired Power Plants	Power
January 24	Gypsum Dewatering	Power
January 31	Filter media (forecasts and market drivers for media used in air, gas, liquid, fluid applications, both mobile and stationary).	Market Intelligence
February 7	Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities	Power

A huge program to add more than 800,000 MW of coal-fired Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) capacity in China will make this country not only the largest catalyst purchaser but larger than the rest of the world combined. This is the conclusion reached in the recent revisions to the NO_x Control World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

China plans to build as many SCR systems per year as exist in the U.S. It plans to retrofit 90 percent of existing coal-fired units and to include SCR on all new units. By 2020, it will have four times the coal-fired capacity of the U.S.

The contrast between the two countries is striking. The U.S. is immersed in battles over which plants install SCR at what time. Millions of dollars are being spent in litigation over 50,000 MW more or less. China is stepping up to the plate and committing to 1,100,000 MW of SCR over the same timeframe.

The Chinese system construction costs will be considerably less than in the U.S., but the catalyst prices will be relatively high. Catalyst prices in China have risen about 3%/yr over the last several years and are now at 80 percent of the U.S. level. The value of all catalyst installed in China in 2020 is projected to be more than $5 billion and the annual market will level off at $1 billion. However, at its peak around 2015, the annual market will exceed $1.5 billion and will account for more than 60 percent of the entire world purchases.

There has been a very substantial investment in facilities to manufacture catalyst in China. However, domestic demand will exceed supply over the next several years. After 2015, domestic manufacturers will be capable of supplying all the needed catalyst within China and will be looking for export markets. Most of the catalyst is being supplied by joint venture companies which include international partners.

Project Title	First Entry Date	Location	Startup date
Cape Lambert combined cycle power plant	9/1/2012	Australia	2015
Matarbari power plant	9/1/2012	Bangladesh	Unknown
South Maheskhali power plant	9/1/2012	Bangladesh	Unknown
Redondo Beach repower	9/1/2012	CA	Unknown
Patache power plant-Americas Energy Fund	9/1/2012	Chile	Unknown
Pacifico power plant-South Cross Group	9/1/2012	Chile	Unknown
Prabhawati Nagar power plant-M/S Ericsson Power	9/1/2012	India	2016
Arun power plant-PLN	9/1/2012	Indonesia	2014
Sumsel 8-PT Bukit Asam and China Huadian Hongkong	9/1/2012	Indonesia	Unknown
Footprint Power power plant at Salem Harbor site	9/1/2012	MA	Unknown
Oregon Clean Energy Project combined cycl-North American Project Development	9/1/2012	OH	2016
Rolling Hills conversion to combined cycle	9/1/2012	OH	Unknown
Hermiston power plant in conjunction with wind farm-Perennial Power Holdings	9/1/2012	OR	Unknown
Iloilo power plant-AC Energy Holdings/A Brown	9/1/2012	Philippines	2015
Blackownia power plant-Tauron/KGHM	9/1/2012	Poland	2017
Banyan district combined cycle power plant-Sembcorp	9/1/2012	Singapore	Unknown
Yunus Emre power plant-Adularya Energy	9/1/2012	Turkey	Unknown
Zimbabwe-Chinese financed power plant	9/1/2012	Zimbabwe	Unknown
WA Parish peaking power plant-NRG	8/1/2012	TX	2013
Niehl 3 power plant-Rheinenergie of Cologne	6/1/2012	Germany	2016
Khormala Phase I combined cycle power plant	6/1/2012	Iraq	2014
Ncondezi Coal power plant	6/1/2012	Mozambique	2017
Cane Run combined cycle-Kentucky Utilities, Louisville Gas & Electric	2/1/2012	KY	2016
Pio Pico Energy Center peaking	5/1/2011	CA	2014
Soldotna addition-Homer Electric Assoc.	4/1/2011	AK	2013
Hess Newark power plant	3/1/2011	NJ	2016
Rampal power plant-Power Development Board	9/1/2010	Bangladesh	2016
Milner supercritical expansion-Maxim Power	9/1/2010	Canada	2015
Nandikur power plant expansion-Udupi Power Corp.	9/1/2010	India	2014
Sweeny IGCC project-ConocoPhillips	9/1/2010	TX	Unknown
Anwara, Chittagong power plant-Bangladesh Power Dev. Board/NTPC	8/1/2010	Bangladesh	2016
Tuzla 7-Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH)	5/1/2010	Bosnia	2017
Byron peaking power plant-Mariposa Energy/Diamond Energy	10/1/2009	CA	2012
Lakeside Energy Center-MyPower Corp.	10/1/2009	TX	Unknown
Pastoria expansion-Calpine	9/1/2009	CA	Cancelled
Good Spring IGCC power plant-Future Power PA (EmberClear)	9/1/2009	PA	Cancelled
Summit Power IGCC power project with carbon capture	3/1/2009	TX	2015
Almond peaking expansion-Turlock Irrigation District	10/1/2008	CA	2012
Tracy combined cycle conversion-GWF Energy	9/1/2008	CA	2012
Madison Bell Energy Center-Navasota Energy Partners	8/1/2008	TX	Unknown
Bina Phase 1 power plant-Bina Power Supply Co.	5/1/2008	India	2013
Sherman combined cycle power plant-Panda	3/1/2008	TX	2014
Rooppur nuclear power plant	1/1/2008	Bangladesh	2018
Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant addition-UniStar Nuclear Energy	11/1/2007	MD	On hold
Gorakhpur village (Fatehabad) nuclear power plant-Haryana Power Generation C	10/1/2007	India	2017
Alvin W. Vogtle 3,4 nuclear power plant-Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power	6/1/2007	GA	2017
Bushehr nuclear power plant	6/1/2007	Iran	2012
Hydrogen Energy IGCC Power Project	12/1/2006	CA	2017
El Centro 3 repower-Imperial Irrigation District	3/1/2006	CA	2012
Sasan supercritical power plant-Reliance Power	1/1/2006	India	2015
Ironton Energy Center-Atlantic Energy Ventures	11/1/2000	OH	Cancelled
White Slough (New Lodi project)-Northern CA Power Authority		CA	2012

Geothermal projects around the world are detailed in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update.

In conjunction with GEA International Geothermal Energy Showcase 2012, the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) released its latest International Market Overview Report, which finds that the global geothermal power market grew substantially in 2011-2012. As of May 2012, there are approximately 11,224 MW of installed geothermal capacity online globally. The U.S. remains the world leader with approximately 3,187 MW of installed capacity, but global market growth continues to outpace the U.S. by a noticeable margin

Outside of the U.S., countries like Turkey, Kenya and Indonesia continue to show promise for significant geothermal expansion. Turkey has been deemed one of the “hottest” European markets for geothermal, and is the seventh most promising country in the world, with 2,000 MW of geothermal potential.

EnergySource, an independent renewable energy generation company that develops utility scale geothermal power plants, hosted a dedication ceremony in Imperial County, CA, to commemorate completion of the first stand-alone geothermal plant in the Salton Sea area in 20 years, Hudson Ranch I.

The plant was then renamed the John L. Featherstone Plant in honor of a technology pioneer and innovator in the Salton Sea geothermal resource. EnergySource also announced ground breaking for its second geothermal plant, Hudson Ranch II, with drilling commencing in the 3^rd quarter of 2012.

The John L. Featherstone plant began commercial operations in early March and is generating geothermal energy at its designed 49.9 MW capacity. EnergySource began construction of the $400-million plant in May 2010 and created more than 200 jobs during construction. Now in operation, the plant provides 55 full-time jobs in Imperial County. Today the plant is selling all of its energy, capacity and environmental attributes to Salt River Project under a 30-year power purchase agreement.

Continental Energy Corporation, an emerging unconventional energy company concentrating its efforts in Southeast Asia, announced that the Government of Malaysia, acting through its Public Private Partnership Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department, has awarded a grant of 35 million Malaysian Ringgit (approximately US$11.5 million) to Tawau Green Energy Sdn. Bhd. (“TGE”). The company owns a 10 percent stake in TGE.

TGE is developing a geothermal energy resource at a site named Apas Kiri, located in the southern portion of the Malaysian State of Sabah near the city of Tawau. Apas Kiri will be Malaysia’s first geothermal energy development. It is expected to come online by early 2015 with a rate net capacity of 30 MW.

Enel Green Power S.p.A (“EGP”), through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America Inc., has begun construction work of the geothermal plant located in Cove Fort in southern Utah (USA).

The new plant, which will have a gross installed capacity of 25 MW, will be able to generate around 160 GWh of electricity per year, avoiding the emission of around 115,000 tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere each year. The plant, which should enter service by the end of 2013, will require a total investment of approximately US$126 million.

An Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) grant for approximately $2 million will help El Salvador establish a geothermal training center for Latin America and the Caribbean that will enable other countries to develop their capacities to efficiently exploit this renewable energy source.

The region’s geothermal development potential is estimated at 6,000 MW. Of this, 43 percent is located in Central America, 39 percent in Mexico, 17 percent in the Andean region, and 1 percent in the Southern Cone. The Central American countries must improve their technical and scientific capacities to realize their potential.

The program’s three specialized courses will be held at Universidad de El Salvador between 2013 and 2015. Each course will be taken by 30 geothermal experts. The operation will also finance ten scholarships for Salvadoran participants and another ten scholarships for participants from other countries.

The project, which was approved by the IDB Board of Executive Directors, will provide the only theoretical and practical graduate-level training in geothermal energy available in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2010, Universidad de El Salvador, together with LaGeo and support from Italy, offered a specialized degree course on a pilot basis. The new program will include an evaluation of this pilot course.

The Italian-Latin American Institute estimates El Salvador’s geothermal potential at an additional 440 MW and a capacity that could total 644 MW in the coming years. Geothermal energy is a natural resource independent of climate change, geopolitical factors, and fluctuations in currency exchange rates.