Power Projects for Oct. 2, 2009
Here are the headlines for the Utility E Alert
issued October 2, 2009
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UTILITY E-ALERT
#944 – October 2, 2009
Table of
Contents
COAL – U.S.
- Summit seeks Grant for IGCC
400 MW Power Plant near Penwell, TX
- Groups appeal Permit for
Centralia Coal-fired Power Plant
- EPA to reconsider Desert Rock
Power Plant Permit
- Georgia Supreme Court will
not hear Case against 1200 MW Longleaf
- 980 MW Sandy Creek Power
Project in Texas on Schedule for 2012 Opening
- Progress Energy gets Utilities Commission OK to
close H.F. Lee
- Desert Rock Seeking DOE Grant for Carbon Capture
COAL – WORLD
- CEZ questioning Tender for 2000 MW Power Plant in
Kosovo
- Drax looking to build Straw Pelleting Plant
GAS/OIL – US
- Mariposa proposing 200 MW
Peaking Power Plant at Byron, CA
- Black Hills Colorado IPP to
build 200 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant in Colorado
- Vernon, CA Changes to Smaller 330 MW Power Project
GAS/OIL – WORLD
- Petronet could build 750 MW
Power Plant at Kochi (Kerala, India) Terminal
- Hitachi, Sumitomo awarded
Steam Turbine Generators Order for Egyptian 1,300 MW Ain Sokhna Supercritical
Power Plant
- TransCanada to build 900 MW
Gas-fired Plant in Oakville, Ontario
- 2100 MW Power Plant at Tadadi, Karnataka, India
along with LNG Terminal
- CEZ has Environmental OK to build 821 MW Pocerady
- Iraq ready to install 3870 MW of Gas Turbines
- BHEL to build 126 MW Cogeneration Plant in Belarus
- E.ON to repower High Marnham
- New Jordan Power Plants
BIOMASS
- NRG Energy test-grows Biomass
for use at Big Cajun II in Louisiana
- Papermaker Tullis Russell to replace Coal-fired
Power Plant with Biomass
CO2
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EPA
proposes Landmark Rule to regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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California
Air Board approves Carbon Fee
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Toshiba starts up Carbon Capture Pilot Plant in Japan
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Mantra
signs Deal to develop Reactor that uses Captured Carbon
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EU
Expected to Miss its 2015 CCS Project Goal
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Exelon
Leaves US Chamber of Commerce over Climate Change
NUCLEAR
- Feasibility Study for New CANDU Reactor in
Argentina
- Italy to start building Nuclear Power Plants
- San Antonio having Second Thoughts about
Partnership for South Texas Project
- Nuclear Power Companies looking at Sites in Nevada
and Colorado
- Spain plans to Phase Out Nuclear Power
BUSINESS
- BHEL could form Separate Power Generation Company
- New South Wales, Australia looking at Two Baseload
Power Plants
- India Cements to build Two Captive Power Plants
HOT TOPIC HOUR
- Even the World’s PM2.5 Experts don’t
have the Answers! Hot Topic October 1
- Upcoming Hot Topic
Hours
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Bob McIlvaine
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