Subject:  Power Projects For November 11, 2005

Here are the headlines for the Utility E-Alert issued November 11, 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

#749– November 11, 2005

Table of Contents

COAL – U.S.

·         Babcock Power SCR Contracts at Greenidge and Brayton Point

·         B&W Has FGD Contract for Amos 1-3

·         FPL Loses Bid to Build Coal Plant in St. Lucie

·         Black Hills Considering a 90 MW WyGen III

·         Southern CA Edison, Peabody, Hopi and Navajo Tribes Negotiating on Future of Mohave

·         U. of NC Wants to Expand its Cogen Plant

• Kalama Coal Gasification Combined Cycle Plant in Washington Could be Under Construction in 2007 and Operating in 2012
• Sempra’s Gerlach Plant Scaled Back from 1,450 to 1,200 MW
• Dry Fork Power Project Now 376 MW and Seeking Federal Financing
• New Hampshire Mercury Reduction Bill Could Prompt FGD at Merrimack by 2013
• Delaware to Require Older Power Plants to Cut Emissions

 COAL – WORLDWIDE

• Bachmann Dampers for FGD at Provence 5
• Hitachi to Supply FGD for Kozienice 4-8
• DMCI Holdings Plans to Build 2 x 200 MW Power Plant on Semirara Island
• Honeywell to Supply Automation System to Maritza East 2
• FGD Planned for Monfalcone
• Scottish Power Will Close Cockenzie and Longannet
• EU May Not Meet Kyoto Targets
• Vinci Construction Building Coal-fired Power Plant on New Caledonia
• Nova Scotia Power Could Add FGD at Lingan

 GAS & OIL – WORLDWIDE

• Turbomach to Supply Gas Turbine for Yinchuan Combined Cycle Plant
• ALSTOM to Upgrade Gas Turbines at Alba Aluminum Bahrain’s Manama Cogen Plant
• Five Consortia Shortlisted for South African Private Power Plant Contracts
• Suez Building Power Plants in Southern France
• Wärtsilä Building Two Power Plants in Cambodia
• Babcock Hitachi Has 50 MW Combined Cycle Power Project in Hungary
• MHI to Build San Isidro II
• GE to Build 2x100 MW Power Project in Uruguay
• Carron Energy Plans 800 MW Uskmouth Expansion

 RENEWABLES

• Power Machines/Sumitomo to Supply Hydroelectric Equipment to Vung Ang Plant in Vietnam
• 5 MW Solar Power Plant in India
• Transelektro to Rebuild Romanian Power Plant
• Sumitomo to Build Geothermal Power Plants in Indonesia

 NEW CONCEPTS

• Miniature Fabric Filter Could be Critical to Future Guarantees
• Mercury Reduction Can be Obtained Quickly and Economically

CONFERENCES

• Power-Gen McIlvaine FGD Exhibitor Directory Now Posted
• Speakers Defend IGCC Choices at Gasification Technologies 2005

 BUSINESS

• Xcel Received 60 Proposals to Fill 2,500 MW Need in Colorado
• Fuel-Tech N.V. Awarded Multiple NOxOUT^® Orders Totaling $4.6 Million
• Constellation Energy Group Now Only Bidder for Drax
• Singapore Company Seeking NO_x Monitors

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com