UTILITY
E-ALERT
#1080–
June 22, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL –
US
- Minnesota Power says Further Study needed before
Old Units are Retired
- Allied Environmental to install CFB
Scrubber/Fabric Filter at Big Stone
- Allied Environmental to
supply CFB Absorber/Fabric Filter to Empire District Ashbury
- EPA’s proposes to revise the
NAAQS for Fine Particles
- Shaw to install DSI System at
Boardman
- Senate rejects Bill to
Overturn MATS
COAL –
WORLD
- Rio Tinto issues EoI for Developing Benga Power
Plant
- Ncondezi Coal plans 1800 MW Power Plant in
Mozambique
- 4,000 MW Power Plant planned in Deoghar District,
Jharkhand, India
- Meralco: Subic Bay Freeport Coal-fired Power Plant
Stays
- Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. signs $1.4 Billion
Deal for Jorf Lasfar Expansion in Morocco
- RWE gets last Eemshaven Coal-fired Power Station
Permit
- Italy Court reverses Ruling and allows Enel to
start conversion of Porto Tolle from Oil-to-Coal-firing
GAS /
OIL – US
- Construction begins on 45 MW
Pioneer Peaking Power Plant in North Dakota
GAS /
OIL – WORLD
- GE’s Frame 9E Gas Turbine for 150-MW Combined
Cycle Project at JFE’s East Japan Iron Works
- Summit to give up Bibiyana-1 Power Project in
Bangladesh
- Cologne (Germany) Utility plans New 400-600 MW
Power Plant
- Global Power wins Siemens’ Gas Turbine Exhaust
Systems Contract for Power Plant in Iraq
BIOMASS
- 50 MW Biomass-fired Power
Plant in Uruguay to start up in 2015
CO2
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National Grid Releases Plans for Regional CO2
Pipeline in Yorkshire
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General
Electric and Sargas to Market Gas-Fired Power Plant Design with 90 Percent
Carbon Capture
NUCLEAR
- EDF selects Joint Venture for
New Nuclear Power Plant Construction in UK
- US NRC Certification of GE
Hitachi’s New Reactor Design delayed to 2013
BUSINESS
- Alstom to modernize Power Plants in Poland
HOT
TOPIC HOUR
- Over 50 Persons listened to Five Speakers discuss
Dry Sorbent Injection at the Second Hot Topic Hour on DSI held Thursday June
21st
- “Greenhouse Gas Strategies
for Coal-fired Plant Operators” is the Hot Topic Hour on June 28, 2012
- Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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