UTILITY E-ALERT

Here are the Headlines for the November 2, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

#1099 – November 2, 2012

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• More Cost Overruns for Edwardsport IGC Power Plant
• Xcel Energy to study Retirement of Two Units at Sherco

COAL – WORLD

• EPBiH Shortlists 11 Firms for 450 MW Tuzla in Bosnia
• India and Bangladesh now ready to sign JV Agreement for 1320 MW Power Plant in Bagerhat District

§  Meralco pursues Two Coal-fired Power Plants and LNG-fired Power Plants

§  USD 450 Million Turkish Bid to build 200 MW Power Plant in Sinai, Egypt

• Thunder Bay Conversion from Coal-firing to Natural Gas-firing halted
• Thirty Power Plants in India have inked FSA with Coal India

GAS/OIL / US

§  Calpine proceeding with 309 MW Garrison Energy Center in Delaware

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• Siemens to build 700 MW Power Plant in Venezuela
• Energy Holdings International to build 450 MW Combined Cycle Power Plants at Bibiyana and Fenchugang, Bangladesh

CO₂

• UK Announces Four Finalists for £1 Billion CCS Competition
• 2Co Energy Cancels Don Valley CCS Project after Failing to Make Short List for British Funding
• CO2 Solutions to Receive $500,000 for Alberta Oil Sands Project
• Global Warming Impact in Tons of CO₂ Equivalent in 25 Year Increments for One Ton of Emissions

NUCLEAR

• Taiwan studying Conversion of Almost Completed Longmen Nuclear Power Plant to Gas-firing
• Bihar State in India has Identified Possible Site for Nuclear Power Plant
• Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant remains under Alert as NRC returns to Normal Inspection Levels

§  China to proceed with Nuclear Power Plants

• Cambodia has no Plans for Nuclear Power Plant
• Bulgaria to hold Referendum on New Nuclear Power Plant
• Hitachi to buy Horizon and build Nuclear Power Plants in the UK

BUSINESS

§  Celanese to Convert Boilers from Coal-firing to Natural Gas

• Meralco looking into entering Vietnam Power Generation Business
• MHI to supply Steam Turbine and Boiler to 330MW O Mon 1
• Metso to supply Fluidized Bed Technology to Kuopion Energia Power Plant in Finland
• NRG expects Environmental Capital Expenditures to be less than Planned
• Edison Mission Energy on Verge of Bankruptcy
• Chinese Companies to finance construction of 10 Power Plants in Iran
• The World Market for Electrostatic Precipitator Systems, Repair Parts and Service will exceed $15 Billion in 2013

HOT TOPIC HOUR

§  Cooling Towers and Cooling Water Hot Topic Hour November 1, 2012

§  Hot Topic Hour on November 8 at 10 a.m. (CST) is “FGD Scrubber Components”

§  Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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