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#891 – November 21, 2008

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COAL – U.S.

  • PacifiCorp selects Casey Industrial for Baghouse Retrofits at 445 MW Hunter 2 and 446 MW Huntington 1
  • Riley Power to Supply SCR, LNB for 270 MW Lansing 4
  • Sunflower Electric goes to Court over Permit Denial for 2 x 700 MW Holcomb
  • Development Period extended for Norborne Power Plant
  • Making Power-Gen 2008 as Productive as a Conference just focused on Air Quality

COAL – WORLD

  • 1,600 MW Power Project shifted from Cheemeni Village to Orissa
  • Mitsubishi looking at Site in Slovenia for 250 MW IGCC Power Plant
  • Metso supplies Multifuel-fired CFB Boiler to Polish Paper Company
  • Metso to supply CFB Boiler to Kuopion Energia CHP Project
  • Lanco Infra is Sole Bidder for Rajpura Power Plant

GAS/OIL – U.S.

  • Rockingham County Board (North Carolina) approves Duke Plan for 600 MW Rockingham Expansion

GAS/OIL – WORLD

  • Honeywell to supply Process Controls to 1,300 MW Nuon Magnum Gas-fired Power Plant
  • GE Energy providing Cooling Optimization Package for ENKA Combined Cycle Power Plants in Adapazari and Izmir
  • Alstom to do Reconstruction Work on Dunamenti Power Plant (Hungary)
  • GVK Power waiting for Gas Supply for Two of its Projects in Andhra Pradesh, India

 GASIFICATION 

  • Bechtel to prepare Feasibility Study for Polish Zaklady Azotowe Pulawy Coal & Gasification Project

 CO2 CAPTURE AND STORAGE

  • UK holds Europe’s first Phase II EU ETS Carbon Auction
  • DOE to fund Carbon Capture Project in Wyoming
  • Obama Will Seek Immediate Action to Curb CO2 Emissions
  • Schwarzenegger Convenes Climate Summit
  • Deseret Ruling Could Halt Coal-fired Power Plant Construction
  • Deseret Ruling's Effect on Sunflower’s Coal-fired Power Plant Plans Unclear
  • Environmentalists try to Stop Duke Coal-fired Power Plant in NC
  • Scientists Plan to Test CO2 Sequestration Technique in Columbia Basin
  • Less Costly Way to Control CO2 at Coal-fired Power Plants

 NUCLEAR

  • BHEL, Areva to form JV for manufacturing Nuclear Reactors
  • China will begin Construction of Nine Nuclear Power Plants in Next Two Years

BUSINESS

  • NorthWestern Energy buys Colstrip 4
  • Toshiba-JSW Steel JV to Manufacture Supercritical Boilers
  • Mississippi Power requests Rate Hike
  • EPA Finalizing Rules on Monitoring Ambient Air near Class 1 Areas
  • Business at WahlcoMetroflex is Booming

HOT TOPIC HOUR

  • Life after CAIR and CAMR was the Hot Topic on November 20, 2008
  • Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

 

#890 – November 14, 2008

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COAL – U.S.

  • EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board Rules that EPA has No Valid Reason to Refuse to Regulate CO2
  • Montana issues Permit for 250 MW Highwood
  • Legislation regarding Taylorville IGCC Power Plant Project held up in Illinois Senate
  • New Hampshire PUC Again Says that it Lacks Authority to Investigate FGD System
  • Wisconsin PSC rejects Plan to Build 300 MW Nelson Dewey CFB Expansion
  • Sevier Power Considering Options for 270 MW Richfield CFB Power Plant

COAL – WORLD

  • Ducon Awarded Contract for Limestone FGD System in India
  • Brown Cloud affecting Health and Reducing Sunlight in Asia
  • Dabhol Hits another Snag
  • Coal Linkages OK’d for 35,000 MW of Power Projects in India

 CO2 CAPTURE AND STORAGE

  • Work Begins on Callide Oxyfuel Project in Biloela, Australia
  • SOLVit Building Pilot Plant to Test CO2 Capture Chemicals
  • Where Obama Stands: Clean Coal and CO2 Storage
  • Obama Considering Energy Security Council
  • New Study Says Transmission Grid Needs to be Factor in Climate Change Initiatives
  • Utilities to Test Solar Power at Traditional Plants
  • Rock in Oman Can Soak up Carbon Dioxide, Scientists Say

 GAS/OIL – U.S.

  • BLM sued over Ozone Air Quality in Oil and Gas Fields in Northwestern New Mexico

GASIFICATION

  • IPS Wins Contract with DOE NETL for IGCC Dynamic Process Simulator

BIOMASS

  • JSC PromSviaz Automatika to build 20-100 MW Biomass-fired Power Plant in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

NUCLEAR

  • Burns & Roe Awarded Feasibility Study for Thailand’s Nuclear Power Program
  • Croatia Considering 1,000 MW Nuclear Power Plant

BUSINESS

  • Karnataka Could Build 4,000 MW Power Project at Kudagi (India)
  • NRG Energy’s Board of Directors rejects Exelon Corporation’s Unsolicited Proposal and Exelon tries Again
  • Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group names Richard Killion New President
  • Alstom to Establish Supercritical Turbine Generator Islands Manufacturing JV with Bharat Forge Ltd.
  • Coal to Remain World’s Top Power Source: IEA
  • TVA Lowers Fuel Adjustment; Rates to Drop
  • Progress Energy Gets Rate Hike OK in Florida; FPL Decision Delayed
  • Chinese Power Plant Exhibitions are Important but Difficult to Monitor
  • Making Power-Gen More Productive

HOT TOPIC HOURS

  • Zero Liquid Discharge for Power Plant Scrubbers documented in Aquatech Webinar
  • Replacement of CAMR and CAIR is Hot Topic on November 20th
  • Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

 

#899 – November 7, 2008

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 COAL – U.S.

  • Air Permit issued for 600 MW John W. Turk
  • Sevier County Voters Pass Measure requiring Public Vote on New Coal-fired Power Plants

COAL – WORLD

  • Bidding for Contract for 4,000 MW Tilaiya Power Project in Jharkhand, India could be Delayed
  • SPX receives $124 Million Contract for Pulse Jet Fabric Filters for Kusile in South Africa
  • Punjab (India) Cabinet approves setting up of 1,200 MW Power Plant at Rajpura

GAS/OIL – WORLD

  • Mitsubishi wins Global Orders for M701F Gas Turbines
  • Wärtsilä to build 2 x 331 MW Geramar 1 and 2 in Brazil
  • Siemens to supply Power Plant Components to Israel for Ramat Hovav, Hagit and Eskhol

CO2 CAPTURE AND STORAGE  

  • DOE funds Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership

NUCLEAR

  • Vietnam to build Two Nuclear Power Plants in Central Province
  • Areva Team wins Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Contract
  • Duke raises Cost Estimate for Lee Nuclear Power Plant to $11 Billion
  • EGAT signs Nuclear Feasibility Study Contract with Burns & Roe Asia

BUSINESS

  • Metso delivers Automation System for a New Power Plant in Bandirma, Turkey
  • Invensys Process Systems to supply Distributed Control Systems for Coronel and Bocamina in Chile
  • Kennametal Continues to Increase Sales Despite Downturn in Economy
  • Electricity Demand to Increase despite Downturn
  • ADA has Lower Revenues in Third Quarter but has Booked Six ACI System Orders this Year
  • Dynegy sees Recovering Electricity Demand after a Few Slow Quarters
  • IEA predicts $200 Oil by 2030 and $100 Oil in Short Term
  • Support for Coal Gaining
  • China Electricity Demand to grow at 11-14 Percent/Year

HOT TOPIC HOUR

  • NOx Catalyst Suppliers are improving their Hg Oxidation and SO3 Minimization
  • “Instrumentation for Process Control” Hot Topic for November 13, 2008
  • What will replace CAIR and CAMR? - Hot Topic for November 20
  • Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

 

#898 – October 31, 2008

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OVERVIEW

  • Impact of the Recession will be Significant but not Huge

COAL – U.S.

  • Northeast States Petition EPA to Require Mercury Reductions
  • Franklin County (IL) CFB Power Project Needs New Air Permit

COAL – WORLD

  • Maharashtra Government wants Control of Dabhol Plant in India

GAS/OIL – WORLD

  • New 225 MW Gas Turbine for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Shipshaw Power Plant in Quebec

GASIFICATION

  • Foster Wheeler awarded Coal-to-Liquids Feasibility Study in China

BIOMASS

  • Drax to Build 3 x 300 MW of Biomass-fired Power Plants in UK

CO2 CAPTURE AND STORAGE

  • Abu Dhabi CCS Project to be ready by 2013

NUCLEAR

  • Bruce Power Seeking Site License for Nuclear Power Plant at Nanticoke

BUSINESS

  • Fuel Tech Announces Second FUEL CHEM® Demonstration in China
  • Karachi Electric Supply Co. to add 1,000 MW by 2011
  • Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trades reassigns 13 Power Projects rejected by EVN
  • ADA-ES Reaffirms Activated Carbon Market Expectations

HOT TOPIC HOUR

  • “NOx Catalyst Performance on Mercury and SO3” is the “Hot Topic” for November 6, 2008
  • Upcoming Hot Topic Hours