Industrial Boiler MACT - Impact and Control Options is Hot Topic Hour on
March 22, 2012
Last month, the Federal District Court for DC vacated EPA’s notice that EPA
intended to stay the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for
industrial, commercial and institutional boilers and process heaters (the Boiler
MACT Rule) to reconsider some parts of the regulation. This action added
considerable uncertainty for operators of affected boilers (primarily the 14,000
boilers that are large sources of air toxics emissions) because the courts’
action made the originally proposed Boiler MACT effective immediately with
compliance dates already established for spring of 2015.
EPA may appeal the District Court's opinion, may issue a new stay of the Boiler
MACT that avoids the deficiencies noted by the District Court or given the
timeframe, simply issue the new rules. If EPA does revise and reissue the rule
in the spring as it has indicated it will do, the emission standards in the
current rule will most likely change as well as the number and types of
subcategories of boilers that are affected by various portions of the rule. With
this uncertainty, boiler operators now planning to meet the requirements of the
original and now current MACT will also need to consider the different standards
in the rule proposed by EPA in December 2011.
The following speakers will help us understand the current situation and suggest
how boiler operators might deal with the impact of the current and proposed
rule, address the likely impact of the current and proposed IB MACT on boiler
operators, potential control technologies and strategies available for operators
to achieve compliance and the advantages and disadvantages of the various
control technologies as well as criteria for selecting specific technologies –
existing facility configuration, existing control equipment installed, fuel type
and others.
Connie Senior, Director of Technology Development, ADA Environmental Solutions,
will discuss “Low Capex Solutions for Compliance with Industrial Boiler MACT.”
The Industrial Boiler MACT is a multi-pollutant regulation in that it sets
emission limits for mercury, HCl, particulate matter and carbon monoxide.
Finding a low-cost solution for multiple pollutants is highly desirable.
Integration of sorbent injection with particulate control can provide control of
both mercury and HCl, if care is taken to select the right sorbents and design
the system correctly.
Katherine (Kate) L. Vaccaro, Associate at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, an
Environmental Law Firm, will discuss the current regulatory status of the Boiler
MACT and EPA's Proposed Reconsideration of the rule, the judicial challenges to
the rule that are still pending before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and how
the uncertainty created by these circumstances impacts boiler owners and
operators. She will also focus on some of the key aspects of EPA's Proposed
Reconsideration of the Boiler MACT, including certain relevant compliance
deadlines, and highlight some of principal concerns voiced by industry in
response to EPA's proposal.
David South, President of Technology & Market Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm,
will discuss some compliance activities boiler operators could be doing now.
While BMACT emission reduction requirements and schedule are still uncertain,
the rulemaking specifies several compliance activities that are less contentious
and would improve boiler operations regardless of the ultimate emission
requirements. The presentation will highlight some of these compliance
activities.
Mack McGuffey, Partner at Troutman Sanders LLP Atlanta office and a specialist
in regulatory compliance under the Clean Air Act, will provide a brief overview
of the MACT program generally, explain how EPA's newly proposed Industrial
Boiler MACT revisions will change the standard issued in March 2011 and outline
some of the legal issues associated with the EPA's boiler MACT rule.
To register for the Hot Topic Hour on March 22, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. (DST), click
on:
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Here are the Headlines for the March 9, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1065 – March 9, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL – US
AES has shut down Somerset, Plans to Auction off the Power Plant
ODEC's proposed Cypress Creek Coal-fired Power Plant secures Land-use Approval
Environmental Equipment for 207 MW Asbury
EPA accepts North Dakota’s Regional Haze Plan
GE Capital could acquire Homer City and keep it running
First Energy could Repower Eastlake
Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing settles with EPA over Air
Violations
COAL – WORLD
KESC to install 300 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Pakistan
Beijing strives to be Coal-free
Tecpro to supply Coal Conveying System for 2x800 MW Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah
in India
NTPC gets Tax Exemptions for 500 MW Sampur Power Project in Sri Lanka
NTPC expects to have Land for the 1,600 MW Gajamara and Darlipalli Power
Projects by June
ALSONS Consolidated Resources looking for Funding for 100 MW Sarangani
Province Power Plant in the Philippines
Hitachi/Daelim to build 2x1050 MW Taean 9, 10 in South Korea
E.ON withdrawing Application for New Kingsnorth Units
Local Opposition to Subic Bay Power Project in Philippines
MAAMBA Collieries Power Project in Zambia will be completed in 2015
GAS / OIL – US
MidAmerican could build Natural Gas-fired Power Plants in Iowa
GAS / OIL – WORLD
GE to build Combined Cycle Power Plant in Erzin District, Turkey
Enea and PGNiG could build Gas-fired Power Plants Together in Poland
PDB aims to Triple Output by Conversion of two Units to Combined Cycle
US$167 Million 300 MW Gas-fired Power Plant Project in Dominican Republic
New 255 MW Power Plant in Bhola (Bangladesh) by 2014
GDF SUEZ and International Power Preferred Bidder for 1500 MW Az Zour in
Kuwait
Wärtsilä to supply Indonesia's First Gas Engine-based Peaking Power Plant
CO2
Scotland to Require Carbon Capture on all Coal-fired Power Plants by 2025
NUCLEAR
Preparation for Darlington Refurbishment to begin
Xcel adding Pumps and Portable Generators to Nuclear Power Plants
Chinese-engineered Third Generation Nuclear Power Plant in Putian County,
Fujian, China
Muhleberg in Switzerland to be Shut Down
Baltic Governments still Support Visaginas Power Project
Russia offers help with Nuclear Power Plant Construction in Jordan
China to resume Nuclear Power Plant Construction
BUSINESS
Progressive and Opportunistic Cleaner Energy should be the Strategy
4th Annual Dry Hydrate Users Group Meeting
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“SO3 Measurement and Control” - Hot Topic Hour on March 8, 2012
“Mercury Measurement and Control” is Hot Topic Hour on Thursday March 15, 2012
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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Offshore Wind Grows in Europe
The use of offshore wind farms to generate electricity is a very popular idea in
Europe and may be coming to the United States. Information on all these projects
is contained in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update.
Wind Energy Areas Moving Ahead in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware
Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for an “all of the above”
energy strategy, the Department of the Interior marked a major milestone for
offshore wind energy along the Atlantic coast.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that the department’s renewable
energy initiative has cleared an important environmental review, allowing
Interior to move forward with the process for wind energy lease sales off
Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware.
BOEM’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessment found that there
would be no significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts from issuing
wind energy leases in designated Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) areas off the
mid-Atlantic Coast. Recently, BOEM also published Calls for Information and
Nominations for Maryland and Virginia to solicit lease nominations from industry
and request public comments regarding site conditions, resources and multiple
uses of the Wind Energy Areas.
World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Consolidates UK’s Global Lead
RenewableUK, the trade association representing the UK wind, wave and tidal
energy industry, has welcomed the official opening of the world’s largest
offshore wind farm by the Energy Secretary Ed Davey.
Walney Offshore Windfarms off the coast of Cumbria (consisting of 2 projects,
Walney 1 and Walney 2), has the capacity to power 320,000 homes.
Maria McCaffery MBE, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive said: “With the opening of
Walney, the UK now has more than 1.7 gigawatts of wind capacity installed
offshore — enough to power more than 950,000 homes. A further 7.4 GW is under
construction, approved or in planning. Beyond that, the next round of offshore
wind farms, Round Three, will add a further 32 GW, giving us more than 40GW
before 2030 — more than half the UK’s current capacity to generate all
electricity”.
“To supply the turbines that will be needed for the massive expansion in
offshore wind, multinational companies have already submitted plans to build
factories in the UK which will employ thousands of people. Nearly 90,000 people
will be working in the sector by 2021”.
EDF Energies Nouvelles and Alstom Announce the Submission of Four Projects
Forming the Basis for a Sustainable French Wind Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Industry
EDF Energies Nouvelles has on behalf of a consortium consisting of strategic
partners submitted four projects in response to the French offshore wind energy
call for tenders. These projects go hand in hand with a highly ambitious and
balanced industrial plan to manufacture the wind turbine designed by Alstom in
France that will create around 7,500 jobs.
EDF Energies Nouvelles on behalf of the Consortium with Alstom acting as its
exclusive supplier is participating in the offshore wind energy call for tenders
launched by the French government in July 2011, by submitting a total of four
projects for the Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Brieuc, Courseulles-sur-Mer and Fécamp
sites.
This balanced industrial plan will deliver economic benefits for numerous ports
on the French coast. Alstom, the exclusive supplier of the next-generation 6 MW
turbines that will be used by the consortium, plans to set up four plants at two
sites, namely Saint-Nazaire and Cherbourg, to manufacture all the turbine’s key
components, leading to the creation of around 5,000 sustainable equipment
manufacturing jobs for qualified workers, including 1,000 direct jobs. In
parallel, the consortium plans to set up as many as eight units to build the
foundations and assemble wind turbines at the Saint-Nazaire, Brest, Cherbourg
and Le Havre port facilities, as well as four Operations & Maintenance centers
in the local ports of La Turballe, Saint-Quay-Portrieux, Caen-Ouistreham and
Fécamp. This industrial program will also help to shape and develop the
activities of a network of industrial operators and local subcontractors during
construction and operation of the wind farms. It will be supported by local
engineering and R&D units, working in harmony with regional university-based
partners.
The four projects submitted by the consortium are based on wind and
environmental studies conducted over a period of around four years, as well as
in-depth geotechnical surveys carried out at each location to determine the
characteristics of the sea bed. All this data is crucial for selecting the best
technical solutions at each location and designing robust projects that are
well-suited and realistic by the key project submission stage.
EDF Energies Nouvelles leads the consortium of strategic partners including DONG
Energy, Nass&Wind Offshore, wpd Offshore and Alstom.
DONG Starts Construction of Anholt Offshore Wind Farm
400,000. This is the number of Danish households that as of next year will have
their power consumption covered by Anholt Offshore Wind Farm.
”It’s in fact somewhat of a record; in early July 2010, we won the project based
on the Danish Energy Agency’s tender. And already 18 months later, the first
monopile was driven into the seabed. This is the first time in DONG Energy’s
history that we’ve achieved this so quickly, and as far as I know, neither has
anyone else.” says Senior Vice President in Renewables, Christina Grumstrup
Sørensen.
The first monopiles were driven into the seabed between Christmas and New Year.
Anholt Offshore Wind Farm will consist of 111 wind turbines across an area of
88m2, 15 km from shore. The wind turbines will be erected at water depths of 15
to 19 meters, and they will have a rotor diameter of 120 meters.
Anholt Offshore Wind Farm is owned jointly by DONG Energy (50 percent),
PensionDanmark (30 percent) and PKA (20 percent). DONG Energy is responsible for
the construction and operation of the offshore wind farm.
Facts on the wind turbines:
• Wind turbines: Siemens 3.6MW-120
• Number of wind turbines: 111
• Wind turbine capacity: 3.6 MW
• Overall wind farm capacity: 400 MW
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