Headlines for the March 7, 2014 – Utility E-Alert

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1165 – March 7, 2014

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COAL – US

§ EPA taking Final Action to approve Revisions to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan

§ Five More Duke Energy Plants cited for Violations

§ B&W sued by ARPA over alleged faulty Coal-fired Boiler

§ Construction begins on Rockaway Lateral and Northeast Connector expansions in NYC

COAL – WORLD

§ Two More Thermal Power Projects planned in Karnataka, India

§ Eemshaven (Netherlands) Site for New 1600 MW Coal/Biomass Power Plant

§ Novinda awarded Three Contracts to supply Amended Silicates HgX for the removal of Mercury from Ten Coal-fired Power Plants

GAS/OIL – US

§ EPA awards Pollution Permit to Pio Pico Gas-fired Power Plant in San Diego, CA

GAS/OIL – WORLD

Alstom starting erection and commissioning for the first of its GT13E2 Gas Turbines the Urals Region of Russia
AsiaTech Energy secures Funding from UOB for Gas-fired Power Plant n Mon State, Myanmar

CO₂

First Carbon Capture Project at Peterhead Gas-fired Power Plant in Scotland

NUCLEAR

India and Russia in talks regarding Third and Fourth Reactors at Kudankulam, India
Nuclear Waste must be stored above Ground at WIPP in New Mexico

BIOMASS

Foster Wheeler Subsidiary awarded Contract for Two 60 MWe Grate Boilers for Fatima Sugar Mill, Pakistan

BUSINESS

§ GDF Suez sells 24.5 Percent Stake in Hungarian Dunamenti Gas-fired Combined Cycle Power Plant to MET Group

§ Tanzanian Energy Regulator Considering Two Bids for Power Plants

§ U.S. Coal upgrades will improve European Energy Security and Reduce Equivalent CO₂ by Five Billion Tons/Yr

§ China will spend $34 Billion/Yr for Air Pollution Control

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