Subject:  Power Projects This Week

Here are the headlines for the Utility E Alert issued June 17, 2005.  The Utility E Alert:   http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/energy.html#41F is offered separately, but is also included in the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/energy.html which has current data on each coal-fired plant worldwide.  Utility People:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/energy.html#43I can also be included in the package.

UTILITY E-ALERT

#728– June 17, 2005

Table of Contents

COAL - U.S.

• Wisconsin Energy Paying $200,000/day Penalty for Construction Delay at Oak Creek
• Eastern University Will Replace 80-year-old Power Plant
• Marsden Conversion to Coal Given "Go" Recommendation, Hearings Continue
• Appeals Court Sides with Duke in NSR Case
• TVA Will Soon Start Construction of FGD at Bull Run
• Southern Will Spend $6 Billion on Controls Over Next 10 Years
• Sempra's Granite Fox Facing California Opposition
• National Parks and Wilderness Areas Protected by Clean Air Visibility Rule Signed Wednesday

COAL - WORLDWIDE

• Proposals on Table for 300 MW Baseload Plant for Western Power
• Emission Caps for Castle Peak and Lamma in Hong Kong
• Phase Out of Coal-fired Nanticoke Will Take Longer than Expected
• New Zealand's Comalco Could Build Plant if Power Contract Negotiations Fail

GAS & OIL - U.S.

• Associated Electric Coop to Buy and Complete 599 MW Dell Project

GAS & OIL - WORLDWIDE

• Delta Electricity Plans Gas-fired Peaking Plant near Munmorah Power Station
• Siemens Orders in Qatar, Dubai and Egypt
• Sime Darby Sells 50 Percent Stake in Jurong Island Power Project
• E.ON Planning 800 MW Irsching in Bavaria, Germany
• Two Gas-fired Power Projects in New South Wales, Australia

GASIFICATION

• Tondu/Shell Global Solutions Agreement on IGCC Technology

NUCLEAR

• Idea Floated for Third Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil
• AREVA to Market its Nuclear Reactor in U.S.
• Shaw Stone & Webster Joins Westinghouse/Mitsubishi Nuclear Consortium
• Japan to Develop Next-Generation Nuclear Reactor

RENEWABLES

• Two Hydroelectric Power Projects in India
• Wind Farms Slated for Victoria State in Australia

BUSINESS

• KenGen Will Fast-track Five Power Projects to Keep Ahead of Demand
• Eskom Plans Power Projects

FGD DECISIONS

• Wet Lime Is More Competitive with Limestone

NETWORKING AT POWER-GEN EUROPE

• He Paid $40,000 for 3 Days of Networking
• Stand Update
• FGD Networking Schedule at Power-Gen Europe
• Accessing All the Projects and Information Online  

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