UTILITY E-ALERT
#1073 – May 4, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL – US
§ B&W PGG to supply Spray Dry System and Baghouse to Columbia 1 and 2
§ Cap on Costs for 618 Edwardsport IGCC Project
§ Illinois EPA issues Taylorville Energy Center its Final Air Permit
§ Partial Disapproval of Utah’s Regional Haze Plan
§ First Energy explains to PSC Reasons for Closure of Albright, Rivesville and Willow Island
§ PJM determines FirstEnergy Plants cannot close until 2015
§ Midwest Generation to close Fisk and Crawford Power Plants Early
§ Sierra Club sues EPA over Oklahoma Power Plants
§ America’s 10 most Polluted Cities, ALA Report 2012
COAL – WORLD
GAS / OIL – US
§ Calpine to add Capacity at Deer Park and Channel in Texas
§ B. L. England to convert to Natural Gas-firing
§ PSC approves 640 MW Cane Run Power Plant
GAS / OIL – WORLD
§ GE Consortium to develop 500 MW Combined Cycle Power Project in Darwin, Australia
CO2
§ GreenGen Starts Up Gasifier at China’s First Near-Zero-Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant
§ Oxyfiring Successfully Begins at Australia’s Callide Oxyfuel/CCS Project
§ TransAlta Cancels $1.4 Billion CCS Project in Alberta
§ SaskPower Reaffirms Commitment to $1.2 Billion CCS Project in Saskatchewan
§ Minnesota Start-Up to Create Renewable Energy with Captured CO2
NUCLEAR
§ Jordan shortlists Mitsubishi/Areva and Atomstroyexport for Nuclear Power Plant
§ Cost of Levy County Nuclear Power Plant rises
§ Canada’s Natural Resources Minister OKs Ontario Power’s Darlington Nuclear Power Plant Expansion
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