Headlines for the November 15, 2013 – Utility E-Alert      

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1151– November 15, 2013 

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

• Groundwater Contamination from Coal Ash at TVA Power Plants
• TVA to Shut Two Units at Paradise, Five Units at Colbert and One Unit at Widows Creek
• LG&E settles Complaints about Coal Ash and Scrubber Sludge Handling
• Indiana Michigan Power gets permission to use DSI at Rockport Power Plant
• 62 MW Fair Station in Iowa Closed

COAL – WORLD

• Bin Qasim 3 and 3 to be converted to Coal-firing
• Bid submission Dates for Odisha, Tamil Nadu UMPPs (India) extended
• Construction to begin on 3,239 MW of New Power Plants in Bangladesh
• Kenya: 980 MW of Power expected from Kitui’s Mui Basin

GAS/OIL – US 

• 600 MW Marshalltown has Siting Certificate

GAS/OIL – WORLD 

• Siemens to deliver 20 SGT-800 Gas Turbines to Thailand

COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES/BOILER EFFICIENCY 

• Emerson to modernize Control Systems at Belchatów 2
• Emerson to automate Two 1,050 MW Ultra-supercritical Units at Taean Power plant in South Korea

BIOMASS

• 10 MW Heat and Power Plant in Babina Creda, Croatia

NUCLEAR

• Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant expansion put on Hold
• Vietnam plans Eight More Nuclear Power Plants by 2030
• Egypt to issue Tender for Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant in January 2014
• Horizon pushing ahead with Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Power Plant in UK

BUSINESS

• URS offers SBS Injection for SO₃ and Mercury Control
• Emerson and Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas extend Alliance for Turbine Retrofit Projects

• Touring Power-Gen and Filtration this Week with the McIlvaine Mobile GDPS Route Maps
• Mercury Removal Market Could Grow from Less than $1 Billion/Yr to Over $10 Billion in the Coming Years
• Air Pollution Control Supplier Revenues to Exceed $44 Billion in 2014

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “Wet vs. Dry ESP” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. CST
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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