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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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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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Green light for new South Derbyshire power station (press release)
Energy Minister Charles Hendry today gave the go-ahead for RWE npower proposals to construct a new gas power plant at Willington, South Derbyshire. Charles Hendry, who will visit the proposed site later today, said: “The Willington plant will play an important role in providing secure electricity supplies to millions of homes, as well as bringing jobs and investment to South Derbyshire. ...
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$14 Trillion to be spent on Power Plant Equipment and Repairs in the Next 25 Years
Nuclear capacity is slated to increase from 392 GW in 2013 to more than 620 GW in 2040. But its share of global power generation will rise just one percentage point to 12 percent, because almost 200 reactors of the 434 operational at the end of 2013 will be retired, they will need to be offset by new power plants. Total investment will exceed $2 trillion over the next 25 years. The gas turbine ...
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Hendry approves Kent power station with enough power to supply 1.5 million homes (press notice)
Energy Minister Charles Hendry today gave the go-ahead for ScottishPower to construct a new 1,000 megawatt gas-fired power station near Hoo St Werburgh in Kent, adjacent to the existing Damhead Creek 800 MW gas-fired power station. Charles Hendry said: “This power plant will play a vital role in providing secure electricity supplies for the South East, as well as creating jobs in the ...
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New power stations bring jobs to Yorkshire
Ministers today gave the go-ahead for two new power stations in Yorkshire that will create over 1,000 jobs and generate enough energy to power almost two million homes. The consented plants are: Ferrybridge – a 108 MW Multifuel (biomass and energy from waste) power plant in Wakefield, Yorkshire, representing an investment of £250m by SSE Generation. It is expected around 350 jobs ...
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Cogeneration project to support Mexico’s drive to increase energy efficiency
GE (NYSE: GE) gas turbine technology will be used to convert a conventional power plant into the first large-scale cogeneration plant in Mexico, which will offer increased efficiency and will supply process steam to one of the country’s most important natural gas complexes. The project supports the Mexican government’s initiative to promote cogeneration as a key step in improving the efficiency ...
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The Pharmaceutical Industry Ultrapure Water (UPW) Purchases to Reach $0.5 Billion In 2017
The pharmaceutical industry demands for UPW for injection (WFI) and UPW for cleaning process equipment and other uses will result in purchases close to $550 million in 2019 up from $480 million in 2015. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated Ultrapure Water: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Some major trends are: Coal-fired boiler ...
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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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Toshiba Receives Combined-Cycle Project Order from Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. Powered by GE/Toshiba Alliance
Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) and GE (NYSE: GE) today announced Toshiba has received an order for a high-efficiency combined-cycle thermal power generation system from Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. (HEPCO) for the Ishikariwan Shinko Power Plant Unit 1, HEPCO’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled thermal power plant. The combined-cycle thermal power generation system combines ...
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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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SwRI, Industry Collaborators Receive $3.8 Million from U.S. DOE to Develop Concentrating Solar Power Combustor for Solar Plants
Southwest Research Institute and industry collaborators Solar Turbines Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratories, German Aerospace Center and San Diego State University have been awarded a $3.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a novel gas turbine combustor for a concentrating solar power (CSP) hybrid gas turbine system. The award was ...
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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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Better Emissions for a Better Bottom Line, by Honeywell, a Feature of
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) will host special guest Honeywell International Incorporated (NYSE:HON) (Morris Township, New Jersey) as part of this week's "Industry Today" webcast. When power customers want to reduce their NOx emissions, they call Honeywell. Honeywell SCR units are designed to provide maximum NOx ...
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Siemens gasification technology for Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant
Siemens coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is planning to build an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC) featuring carbon capture and storage in Genesee near Edmonton, Alberta. The demonstration plant, with an installed capacity of approximately 270 megawatts, is scheduled to come on line in 2015. ...
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Award recognizes GE’s role in helping Saudi Arabia address its water and power challenges
GE Energy, which is supplying advanced technology solutions for the world’s largest independent water and power plant, today received the inaugural Power and Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq) Award for Sustainability from Marafiq, a Saudi Arabian integrated utility company. The award recognizes the key role GE Energy is playing in the development of a milestone project intended to ...
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MHI to Establish Power System Engineering Subsidiary in Austria
- Initiative Responds Dynamically to Increasing GTCC Power Plant Projects - Tokyo, June 15, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will establish MHI Engineering Vienna GmbH in Vienna, Austria, a company which will be responsible for engineering and procurement in the power systems business area. The establishment of the company is aimed to respond dynamically to the ...
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100,000 more pumps will be operated by coal-fired power plants by 2015
Coal-fired power plants throughout the world presently operate 300,000 pumps. This number will increase to over 400,000 by 2015. These pumps will be moving over 1.2 billion gallons/minute. Annual revenues for new pumps will increase from $542 million this year to $776 million in 2015. These are the conclusions reached in the newest expansion of Pumps: World Markets an online publication of the ...
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Latest figures on New Zealand emissions from energy and industrial processes released
The Ministry of Economic Development today released the 2008 edition of the Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions report which contains information on emissions from energy and industrial processes to the end of 2007. The report assists in meeting New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions reporting obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The report also contains a ...
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ABLE awarded field instrument package for national grid gas pipeline
ABLE is pleased to announce the award of the field instrument package for the natural gas pipeline connection linking EDF Energy’s new 1,300MW combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Station at its West Burton site in Nottinghamshire to the National Grid National Transmission System (NTS), some 12 miles away, at Grayingham, Lincolnshire.EDF Energy was granted consent to build the new Power Station by ...
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