October 2016 - Water Market Insights 207

New Approach Allows Suppliers to Reach 50 percent of the World’s Power Generation Market

Large utilities are expanding through merger and acquisition. As a result, 100 power generators around the world buy more than 50 percent of the products and services. These operators are expanding into wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and other renewable fuels. They have distributed generation initiatives. Many are making major investments to meet new environmental regulatory requirements. There are thousands of challenging decisions which have to be made. A new program is creating a unique path for decision makers to combine the hurry-up habits of the IPhone and Facebook with the wisdom of “wise crowd” decisions. The program for the first utility is now available.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) includes PacifiCorp, NV Energy, Mid-American, BHE Renewables, Northern and Kern River Pipeline. The two pipeline companies transport 7 percent of the natural gas in the U.S. The power companies operate coal, gas, hydro, solar, geothermal, biomass, wind and other renewables generators.

McIlvaine now has Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and Utility Connect to be used by suppliers as well as BHE personnel. It has details on every one of the hundreds of power generators within the system. It fulfills the 4 knowledge needs: Alerts, Answers, Analysis and Advancement. It combines 44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant Decisions Orchard) and 59D Gas Turbine and Reciprocating Engine Decisions with the custom BHE program. This includes interfacing with hundreds of BHE people indirectly through the Alerts, case histories, etc., and directly through large and small webinars.

Function

Customer
Plant
Location

Applications

Processes

Products

· Sales

· Service

· Engineering

· Manufacturing

Consulting

· Resource planning

· Regulatory

· Automation

· Operations

· Plant design

WA, OR, UT, WY, IA and non-regulated in many states and the Philippines

Coal

Wind

Biomass

Energy Recovery

Gas

Hydro

Geothermal

Gas Transmission

Water

Intake

Cooling

Ultrapure

Water

Ground Water

Gas Pipeline

Gas Storage

Compressor Station

Steam

Combustion

Wastewater

Fire Protection

Lubrication

Heat Recovery

FGD

Solid Waste

Solid Handling

The website has constantly updated data on each power generation, energy recovery and gas storage and transmission system operated by BHE. It also has details on all the larger industrial facilities in Iowa and the western states where BHE has electricity delivery. It includes all the facilities owned by BHE Renewables. Information on the compressor stations and power generators also includes the air permits with detailed regulatory information.

The coal-fired power plant information includes details on the furnaces, burners, coal size reduction, ID fans, heat recovery steam generators, SCR, particulate control, FGD, wastewater, ash disposal and instrumentation.

The gas turbine data includes details on the gas and steam turbines, inlet air systems, emission control systems, HRSGs and water and wastewater treatment.

The Alerts, webinars and other communication tools provided to suppliers assure an audience at power plants around the world.

Utility E-Alert Tracks Billions of Dollars of New Coal-fired Power Plants on a Weekly Basis

• Columbia Power Plant in Wisconsin to get more Pollution Controls in $110 Million Project

• Duke Energy to recycle Coal Ash at Buck Steam Station in Salisbury, North Carolina

• Amec Foster Wheeler wins Contract for Second CFB Unit in the Philippines

The 41F Utility E-Alert is issued weekly and covers the coal-fired projects, regulations and other information important to the suppliers. It is $950/yr. but is included in the $3020 42EI Utility Tracking System which has data on every plant and project plus networking directories and many other features.

DATE	HOT TOPIC HOUR AND DECISION GUIDE SCHEDULE *The opportunity to interact on important issues*
TBA *Markets*	Food - Analysis of 12 separate applications within food and beverage with analysis of valve, pump, compressor, filter, analyzer and chemical options; impact of new technologies such as forward osmosis.
TBA *Markets*	Municipal Wastewater - Quality of pumps, valves, filters, and analyzers in Chinese and Asian plants; new pollutant challenges; water purification for reuse.
TBA *Markets*	Mobile Emissions -Reduction in CO, VOCs, and particulate in fuels, oils, and air used in on and off road vehicles; impact of RDE and failure of NO_x traps and the crisis in Europe created by the focus on clean diesel.