METKA, GE seal €92m EPC contract to build OCGT in Algeria |
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Greece's METKA and General Electric have sealed a €92million ($118million) EPC contract with Société Algérienne de Production de l'Electricité (SPE) to build an open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) plant with a capacity of 368MW at the country's physical gas hub Hassi R'mel. | |
Timing right for E.on to enter European small scale CHP market – Delta-ee
E.on has chosen the right time to enter the European market for small gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) systems under 1MWe, according to Michael Brown, Director at consultancy Delta Energy & Environment (Delta-ee) and former Executive Director at COGEN Europe. Delta-ee's projections see annual deployment of around 1.5 – 2.0 GWe for CHP projects in the 0.4 – 5.0 MWe size, and up to 1.5 GWe for projects in the 10 – 400kWe size by 2020.
Generating momentum for flexible generation
Rather than sourcing flexibility from part-loaded conventional generation, Wärtsilä Power Plants believes that electricity markets should embrace high efficiency peaking and load-following power that can rapidly ramp up from standstill to provide the super-fast flexibility needed to balance large fluctuations of wind and solar power, says Melle Kruisdijk, Wärtsilä's Market Development Director for Europe.
OMPA's gas-fired peaking plant project to meet demand growth in US
Charles D Lamb Energy Center – a 103 megawatt (MW) gas-fired peaking plant – will be built to replace purchase contracts and meet energy demand growth in the US state of Oklahoma, the investor Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA) said in an informational meeting.
Black Hills starts building 132MW Cheyenne Prairie Generating Station in Wyoming
Black Hills Corporation has begun construction of its new 132MW gas-fired Cheyenne Prairie Generating Station, located five miles (8km) southeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The plant will include one simple-cycle combustion turbine unit and one combined-cycle unit. It is scheduled to begin commercial operation in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Gas-fired power generation “barely profitable, if at all” in 2012/13 – SSE
SSE has called gas-fired generation in the UK "barely profitable, if at all" in its annual report for the 2012/13 fiscal year, due to spark spreads throughout the year being "stubbornly low, if not negative." The company said that a combination of minimal economic growth, a sustained fall in underlying energy demand and high wholesale prices were largely to blame for the difficult environment facing gas-fired power generation.
Sembcorp delays expansion of Jurong Island plant over concerns of looming overcapacity
Singapore's Semcorp Industries is considering delaying a planned expansion of its gas-fired power capacity on Jurong Island due to concerns over the risk of oversupply or power generation capacity.
Update: Sembcorp opens $1bn Salalah IWPP in Oman
Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries has officially opened its $1billion gas-fired Salalah Independent Water and Power Plant (Salalah IWPP) in Oman on Sunday. The plant provides electricity (445MW net) and water (69,000 cubic meters a day) to the government-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Company under a 15 year power and water purchase agreement.
Toshiba expects Brazil's rising energy demand, renewable power supply will spur sale of transformers
Toshiba Infrastructure South America Ltd (TIC-SA) has expanded production of electricity transformers in Brazil, "Renewable energy sources need transformers to connect with existing grid [and] this need will show a solid rise in emerging nations [such as Brazil] with its high growth rates," Atsushi Ido, Toshiba representative told Gas to Power Journal.
EU leaders face energy price trade-off – Energy Commissioner
National leaders in the EU and the Commission are confronted with a trade-off between keeping energy prices high to encourage greater energy efficiency or taking measures to lower prices to help ease pressure on consumers and support Europe's energy intensive industries, the EU's Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger told the European Parliament during a debate in Strasburg on Tuesday.
News in Brief
India lowers gas-fired generation target for 2013
May 24 - The Indian Central Electricity Authority (CEA), an enforcement arm of the Indian Ministry of Power, has reduced its gas-fired generation target for the current year by almost 46 per cent to 43.6 trillion units, The Economic Times reported.
GE to supply electricity conversion station for Poland-Germany railway connection
May 22 – GE Power Conversion has signed a contract with Deutsche Bahm – DB Energie GmbH to supply its Lohsa substation with a conversion station. The project is seen as necessary to merge the railway connection between Poland and Germany.
The new station will utilise a transformer-less solution on the railway side, with direct feed to the overhead lines from three static frequency converters. GE's scope of supply includes the three static frequency converters, transformers and cooling systems, along with the engineering, development and training for the system.
GE's supplies compressor controls for Saudi Arabian Gas/Oil Separation plant
May 21 – GE has built a single platform for controlling all three compressors as an upgrade to Saudi Arabian Saudi Aramco's Haradh gas/oil separation plant. Saudi Aramco, a new GE client in the compressor control segment, has previously contracted GE for turbines and generator controls.
Natural gas used as fuel for fracking
May 20 – Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, in partnership with FTS International (FTSI) and Caterpillar Global Petroleum, has successfully used natural gas as part of dual fuel technology for fracking gas wells. The process can displace up to 70 percent of the diesel fuel traditionally used to operate fracturing equipment.
It utilises FTSI's mobile pressure pumping unit which is retrofitted with a Dynamic Gas Blending (DGB) kit from Caterpillar.
Europe's gas in stock reaches record low
May 20 - Total gas in stock in Europe reached a record low of 15.9 bcm on 14 April 2013, compared with levels of 32.9 bcm a year ago, according to Gas Infrastructure Europe.
On 16 May 2013, stocks were still15 bcm below the level achieved on 16 May 2012.
"With stocks in Europe so low, the summer maintenance is going to limit any downside in gas prices," analysts at the French bank Société Générale forecast.
E.on, METRO partner on distributed energy wholesale in Germany and Russia
May 17 – E.on and METRO Cash & Carry have struck a partnership on distribute energy under which the former will install gas-fired micro combined-heat-and-power (CHP) units at two METRO Cash & Carry wholesale stores in Germany and two in Russia.
Depending on the size of the store, the units' electric capacity will range from 250 to 800 kilowatts.
Alstom supplies flue gas treatment and heat recovery system to Lithuanian CHP plant
May 15 – Alstom has supplied the flue gas treatment and heat recovery system for Fortum's new combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The 20MWe and 60MWth plant is fuelled by municipal waste, non hazardous industrial waste and biomass. The district heat produced at the plant will replace existing natural gas-based heat production capacity.
Alstom Grid to supply gas-insulated switchgear to Poland
May 13 – Alstom Grid has signed two contracts, each worth about €5 million, with Eltel Networks Rzeszów S.A. for the delivery of 110 kV and 220 kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) for the Kopanina project, owned by PSE S.A. PSE is the main electricity transmission service provider in Poland.
Commissioning of the 220 kV gas-insulated switchgear is planned for summer 2014 and the 110 kV substation, for spring 2015.
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