Headlines for the August 9, 2013 – Utility E-Alert     

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1137 – August 9, 2013

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COAL – US

§  EPA finalizing Partial Disapproval of the Arizona State Implementation Plan

§  Revised MATS Extension Information

§  AECOM picked for Environmental Study of Navajo Plant and Coal Mine

§  Wood Group GTS reduces NO_x Levels by 45 Percent at Ohio Power Station

§  East Kentucky Power seeking Certificate of Convenience and Necessity to connect Scrubbers at Cooper Unit 2 to Unit 1

§  Sodium Bisulfite Solution (SBS)-based SO₃ Mitigation Systems to be used at Pleasants Power Station

COAL – WORLD

• ABB wins Orders for 1,320 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Andhra Pradesh

GAS/OIL – US

§  Brunswick Power Plant approved

§  Invenergy proposes Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in PA

§  US Senator Schumer stands behind NRG Repowering Dunkirk as Natural Gas-fired Power Plant

GAS/OIL – WORLD 

• Iberdrola Engineering awarded Contract by Vattenfall to build CCGT Plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany
• Siemens will supply Gas-fired Turbines and Transformers to Russia Plant
• BHEL wins €32.5 Million Turbine Order for CHP Plant in India
• Siemens wins $967 Million Combined Cycle Power Plant Components Order from Saudi Aramco

CO₂

§  Frazer-Nash completes CO₂ Store Project at Hunterston B

§  New Report Says Carbon Capture and Storage is “Too Little, Too Late”

§  Major Breakthrough to develop Carbon Capture and Storage Facilities at Yorkshire, UK

NUCLEAR

• Fairfield County (SC) Power Plants Delayed – Costs below initial Estimates

BUSINESS 

• Energy Holdings International, Inc. signs MOU for GE to Become an Equity Partner in its 450 MW Power Plant in Bangladesh
• NRG Energy acquires Corpus Christi, Texas Cogeneration Plant
• China Is the Center of the World’s FGD Market
• $700 Million Market to Measure Particles in Air
• Continuing Changes in the Options Available to Meet Air Quality Regulations

HOT TOPIC HOUR 

• “Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation” was Hot Topic on August 8, 2013
• “Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater” will be the Hot Topic on August 15, 2013
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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