Headlines for the April 12, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1120 – April 12, 2013

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COAL – US 

• Indiana URC approves Duke’s Environmental Compliance Plan; includes SCR for Cayuga 1, 2
• WP&L estimates Cost of Construction of Dry FGD/Baghouse at Edgewater 5 as $413.7 Million
• Fate of Mt. Tom undecided at Present
• Calpine, Exelon, National Grid and Public Service Enterprise Group Back MATS Rule

COAL – WORLD

• PGE abandons Plans for 2x900 MW Opole in Poland
• Videocon’s 1200 MW Power Project in West Bengal, India could be revived by Talks between West Bengal and Videocon
• Bidding begins for EPC Contract for 1320 MW Udangudi Power Project in Tamil Nadu, India
• Alsons planning 400 MW Power Plant at Tampakan Copper and Gold Mine in the Philippines
• NTPC could move another Power Project from the Indian State of Odisha
• Hitachi and Terna to build 660 MW Ptolemais V in Greece
• BHEL-NTPC-IGCAR Effort to build 800 MW Advanced Ultra Supercritical Power Plant in India
• DPSC Ltd to invest Rs 25,000 Crore for Power Plants in India
• Era Infra gets Rs 430-cr Contract from NTPC for 2x800 MW Lara Power Plant in Chhattisgarh, India
• Coal India-NTPC dispute: Full Coal Supply to be resumed
• Coal Linkages to 16,000 of MW Power Plants not Possible: India Coal Ministry
• China Machinery Engineering Co. to build 600 MW Hwange Expansion in Zimbabwe

COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES/BOILER EFFICIENCY

§  Wood Group installing ECOMAX^® Systems on Combined Cycle Power Plants in US

§  ABB to supply Symphony^®Plus System for One Unit at 590 MW Grazia Deledda Sulcis in Italy

§  Metso Modernizing Automation System at Parichha Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh, India

§  EDF selects Symphony Plus for Le Havre and Cordemais

§  Metso Automation for Huadian Jurong Xiashu Power Plant in China

GAS/OIL - US 

• Pasadena Water and Power planning 71 MW Glenarm Repower

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• China Chengda Engineering Co. to build 225 MW Combined Cycle Plant in Bangladesh
• Groundbreaking for Takoradi 2 in Ghana
• MAN Diesel & Turbo Consortium to build 194 MW Zouk and 78 MW Jiyeh Power Plants in Lebanon
• Alstom to supply Equipment including Boilers, ESPs and FGD for 5x620 MW Yanbu 3 in Saudi Arabia
• GDF Suez confirms plans to Mothball Three Gas-fired Power Plants in France

GASIFICATION

• BHEL and NTPC to form Joint Venture for IGCC Power Plant

BIOMASS 

• Delta hopes to convert Borssele (the Netherlands) from Coal to Wood Chips

NUCLEAR 

• Japan’s Nuclear Regulations could delay Reactor Restarts

BUSINESS

• Obama suggests sale of TVA
• SPX and Shanghai Electric Joint Venture receives More than $80 Million in New Dry Cooling Systems Orders
• EPAs FY 2014 Budget Proposal
• Chinese Pump Revenues to Exceed $8 Billion in 2014
• Coal will Generate 77 Percent of the Flow Control and Treatment Revenues in the $45 Billion Power Market
• Flue Gas Desulfurization Revenues Will Range between $3 Billion and $8 Billion/Yr over the Next Three Years

HOT TOPIC HOUR 

• New Developments in Mercury Measurement and Control unveiled in Hot Topic Hour on April 11, 2013
• “Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 3” is “Hot Topic Hour” on April 18, 2013 at 10 a.m. DST
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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