Here are the Headlines for the October 12, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

 UTILITY E-ALERT

#1096 – October 12, 2012

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COAL – US

§  Hoot Lake Coal-fired Power Plant will stay in operation through 2020

§  Ottumwa 726 MW Power Plant will be upgraded by B&W and Burns & McDonnell

§  EPA approves Texas' Air Permitting Program

§  Breen Energy Solutions wins Sorbent Injection Contracts

COAL – WORLD

• Skoda Power receives Turbine Contract for 2x160 MW New Coal-fired Power Plant

GAS/OIL / US

• Graymont to add Third Gas-fired Kiln to Pleasant Gap, PA
• DEP approves First Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in Pennsylvania

GAS/OIL WORLD

§  Myanmar and South Korean Companies to build Gas-fired Power Plant

§  Siemens to upgrade Two Gas-fired Power Plants in Argentina

§  Tokyo Gas and Showa Shell to add Gas-fired Unit at Ohgishima Power Plant

§  TNB wins Bid to develop Combined Cycle Power Plant in Prai, Penang, Malaysia

§  Wärtsilä-led Consortium awarded Contract to build 573 MW Tri-fuel Power Plant in Jordan

§  ABB wins $65 Million in Orders in support of Gas-fired Power Plants in Iraq

§  Shell (Philippines) to supply Meralco’s 1,200 Gas-fired Power Plant with Liquefied Natural Gas

CO₂

• Fluor Selected to Build Carbon Capture Plant for Shell in Canada
• China “Fastest Moving” on CO₂ Capture, Global CCS Institute Says 

NUCLEAR

• UAE may join Turkey Nuclear Power Plant Project

BUSINESS

• ANDRITZ acquires Allied Environmental Solutions, USA

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• Coal-fired Boiler Optimization” Hot Topic on October 11, 2012 
• “Air Preheaters & Heat Exchangers” is Hot Topic Hour on October 18, 2012
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