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Gas Turbine Owners Will Spend $300 Million for Pumps at New Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants
Pumps are critical to the steam cycle in gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) plants. In 2017 more than $300 million will be spent on pumps for new GTCC generators. NAFTA will lead the way with 35 percent of the purchases. These forecasts were reached through McIlvaine research for N019 Pumps World Market and 59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program. Boiler feedwater pumps for GTCC ...
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RWE Energy sells its share in Tarragona Power to Iberdrola
RWE Energy has sold its 50% share in the power generator Tarragona Power S.L. to the Spanish utility Iberdrola. Iberdrola and RWE have agreed the full take-over of Tarragona Power by Iberdrola Generación. Tarragona Power is a joint venture so far owned in equal terms by Iberdrola Generación S.A.U. and an affiliated company of RWE Energy AG. Tarragona Power owns and operates a gas-fired ...
By RWE AG
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Diamantina Power Station’s ‘Blackstart’
Clarke Energy, GE’s authorised distributor of Jenbacher reciprocating engines in Australia in conjunction with Diamantina Power Station (DPS) has today celebrated practical completion of the supply and installation of the country’s first highly efficient 2.6 megawatt GE 616 Diesel. The 616D will provide “black-start” capability to allow the plant to return to service in ...
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Diamantina Power Station’s ‘Blackstart’
Clarke Energy, GE’s authorised distributor of Jenbacher reciprocating engines in Australia in conjunction with Diamantina Power Station (DPS) has today celebrated practical completion of the supply and installation of the country’s first highly efficient 2.6 megawatt GE 616 Diesel. The 616D will provide “black-start” capability to allow the plant to return to service in ...
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Former Florida Power & Light CEO Armando Olivera joins Fluor`s Board of Directors
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today the election of Armando J. Olivera to its Board of Directors. Olivera is the retired president and chief executive officer of Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). The size of Fluor's board will increase to 12 members, 11 of whom are independent directors. "I am so pleased that Armando has agreed ...
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GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign final agreements to co-develop world’s most advanced new steam turbine for combined-cycle power plants
GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have signed final agreements to co-develop a “next generation” steam turbine for use in gas turbine combined-cycle power plants. The co-development effort will focus on the design of a new, advanced steam turbine, leaving each of the parties to separately manufacture and sell the co-developed steam turbine in support of its natural gas-fired, ...
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Most costly coal-fired plants to run are prime targets for closure, EIA study finds
The U.S. has seen more than a fifth of its coal-fired generating capacity closed since 2011, and plants with higher operating costs were more vulnerable to closures, according to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). Between 2011 and the end of 2017, the total coal-fired generating capacity in the U.S. dropped to 257 gigwatts (GW) from 318 GW. “Because of more competitive ...
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Consortium wins teder to build US$430m Indonesian power plant
A Consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Toshiba Plant Systems & Service Corp has won a tender to build a US$ 430 million power generating project in Indonesia. The consortium will increase the capacity of the Muara Karang Power Plant in response to concern over power shortage. The objective of the project is to improve the tight power situation in the Java-Bali power system and ...
By ENVEA
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Enel and EDF sign cooperation agreement
On the occasion of the Italian and French government summit, in the presence of French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Pierre Gadonneix, Chairman and General Manager of EdF, and Fulvio Conti, CEO and General Manager of Enel, today signed a cooperation agreement. The accord gives the Enel Group access to the first new-generation EPR (European Pressurized water ...
By Enel SpA
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Florida Power & Light Honored by POWER Magazine as an Industry Leader for Two Top Plants
Florida Power & Light Company's West County Energy Center and DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center were recognized at an awards ceremony last night as Top Plants for 2010 by POWER magazine. According to POWER, Top Plants are "those projects that have distinguished themselves as industry leaders for either their best-of-class operating records, environmental performance, unique ...
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GE Wins Largest Gas Turbine Combined-Cycle Order in India
Contracts over $750 Million for 2,400-Megawatt Samalkot Power Plant Expansion. Reliance Power Ltd. of India has selected GE’s (NYSE: GE) flexible, efficient power generation technology for a 2,400-megawatt expansion of the Samalkot power plant in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. This will represent the largest gas turbine combined-cycle project in India’s history and will help the ...
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EPA Finalizes 50th Greenhouse Gas Permit in Texas
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final approval of the 50th greenhouse gas (GHG) permit in Texas. In Texas alone, EPA has received 83 GHG permit applications from businesses since 2011. Texas is No. 1 in the country for receiving EPA-issued GHG permits for projects totaling well over $24 billion and creating over 20,000 construction jobs in the state. ...
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EVAPCO-BLCT project wins Best Gas Fired Project of the Year
Congratulations to EVAPCO-BLCT as their project, Exelon's Wolf Hollow, was awarded Gas Project of the Year by the editors of Power Engineering and Renewable Energy World magazines. Built in Granbury, Texas, Exelon’s 1,000-MW Wolf Hollow gas-fired combined cycle plant began producing power in December 2016. The Wolf Hollow plant is one of two twin facilities designed and built in Texas for ...
By Evapco Inc.
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Lufkin Facility Receives EPA Greenhouse Gas Permit; $443.8 million in economic development and job creation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to the Pinecrest Energy Center power plant in Lufkin, Texas. The project proposes to construct a new natural gas-fired combined cycle electric generating plant. “Every day we are hard at work to help Texas businesses take advantage of new ...
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Pöyry awarded Owner`s Engineering Services contract for two new gas fired combined cycle cogeneration power plants in Thailand
PÖYRY PLC Press release 14 June 2011 at 9.30 a.m. Pöyry's Energy business group has been awarded an Owner's Engineering Services Contract for two new Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Cogeneration Plants in Thailand by Amata B.Grimm Power (Rayong) 1 Limited and Amata B.Grimm Power (Rayong) 2 Limited. The projects will run concurrently with a five month interval between Notice to ...
By Pöyry PLC
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NREL Updates Baseline Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies
The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2017 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB), updating a key source of reliable electricity generation technology cost and performance data used to support and inform electric sector analysis in the United States. Now in its third year, the ATB documents technology-specific information on a broad spectrum of ...
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Clarke Energy Deploys GE’s First 616 Diesel Engine in Australia at Diamantina Power Station
Diamantina Power Station (DPS) in the city of Mt. Isa in the Australian state of Queensland has selected Clarke Energy to supply and install the country’s first highly efficient 2.6 MW 616 diesel engine from GE’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE). GE’s 616 diesel unit will help give the station needed “black start” capabilities to allow the plant to return to ...
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CSP projects set for cost reductions from wider roll out of molten salt storage: Halotechnics
The development of scalable storage-only technology, using electricity to heat molten salts, would help reduce costs for CSP projects, Justin Raade, CEO of energy storage systems supplier Halotechnics, said. The deployment of molten salt storage on a wider range of generation types would increase the bankability of CSP with storage, Raade told CSP Today. Halotechnics is proposing to use thermal ...
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Tenaska’s Advanced Natural Gas Power Station to Improve Resource Efficiency
Black & Veatch has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a new 925 megawatt natural gas combined cycle power plant. Using advanced, high efficiency turbine technology and a recycled water cooling process, the Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station will produce enough power to meet the energy needs of 925,000 homes. The station is located near ...
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Can Germany Really Turn Its Back on Nuclear?
Earlier this month, the German conservative government has announced a complete dismantling of nuclear power plants by 2022. Challenged the view of many experts, and brokers of energy in Germany and throughout Europe, the German government published a controversial report proposed a possible plan to close all nuclear reactors by 2017. Can Germany really has nuclear independence by the end of ...
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