UTILITY E-ALERT

#1057 – January 13, 2012

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COAL – US

§  $700 Million Upgrade for Homer City Power Plant

§  Funding Problems Could End Coal-to-Gas Plant in IL

§  GenOn Appeals Emissions Cleanup Order for Portland Power Plant (PA)

§  CVTech Subsidiary Secures $9.5 Million Coal-fired Boiler Contract

§  We Energies in Talks with Cooperative about Presque Isle joint Venture

§  URS Selected by DTE Energy for Air Quality Control System Contract

COAL – WORLD 

• Myanmar Scraps Coal-fired Power Plant at Dawei
• Coal-fired Power Plant in South Korea to use GE Technology
• MCL Coal Company (India) to Set up 1600 MW Supercritical Power Plant

GAS/OIL - US

§  ND Utilities Proposing 88 MW Gas Turbine

§  Shuttered New Mexico Gas-fired Power Plant Nears Startup

GAS / OIL – WORLD

§  Siemens Gets $1 Billion Order for Saudi Combined Cycle Power Plant Project

§  Wärtsilä Awarded Two Power Plant Equipment Supply Contracts

§  Tepco to Raise Gas Turbine Capacity at Chiba Plant

§  Kribi 216 MW Gas-fired Power Plant to be Completed by December 2012

CO₂

§  EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data in Interactive Web Tool 

NUCLEAR

• Southern California Edison Nuclear Power Plant being Upgraded in 2012
• Indian Point Nuclear Unit Shut Down after Leak Found

BUSINESS 

• E.ON Eyes South American Energy Market
• EUEC Will be a Great Place to Network

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