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Recent
UTILITY E-ALERT Headlines
#891 –
November 21, 2008
Table of Contents
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
Table of Contents
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
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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
Table of
Contents
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
Table of Contents
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
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

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