China
• VA Tech T&D has won a a2.2 million contract from Datang Luoyang Thermal Power Generation Company for an expansion project for the 30-year-old Luoyang power plant located in Henan province in central China.
VA Tech T&D will supply two 515/20kV, 360 MVA transformers and accessories, supervision of site installation, and commissioning. Production is due to start in December 2004. Delivery of the first unit is scheduled for May 2005, and the second for August 2005.
Denmark
• Horns Rev offshore wind farm extension
The Danish Energy Ministry has been inviting interested companies to prequalify by 1st September for the development contract of a r275 million 200 MW extension to the existing Horns Rev offshore wind farm located at Nysted-Rodsand off the west coast of Denmark in the North Sea. The bids will be judged primarily on price per kWh, design and location, and construction timetable. Expected commissioning is 2008.
India
• Alstom has won an order from Larsen & Toubro of Mumbai, India to supply a steam turbine for a combined cycle power plant to be built at Vemagiri in the state of Andra Pradesh. Commercial operation is scheduled for the start of 2006.
Malaysia
• Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS) Energy, Special Triumph, and Posco Machinery & Engineering have won a $34 million contract from Sime Engineering for the design and installation of the hydraulic steel structure for the Bakun dam.
Oman
• The Oman Oil Company has appointed SNC Lavalin as consultant for a $425 million
700 MW combined cycle captive power plant at an aluminium smelter plant in Oman. Start-up of the power plant is scheduled for 2007. Three companies – Bechtel, Hatch and SNC Lavalin – have expressed an interest in carrying out the EPC phase.
Contact: Oman Oil Company SAOC, Muscat PC 118, 261 Oman, Tel: +968 567 392, Fax: +968 567 386. e-mail: oman-oil@oman-oil.com
UK
• Loch Luichart onshore Wind Farm
A joint venture, Infinergy, consisting of Koop Duurzaame and FPD Savills is planning to build a £185 million
225 MWe onshore wind farm, to be located near Inverness, and scheduled for start up in 2008. The farm will comprise 75 turbine units, and is likely to be built in two phases of 150 MWe and 75 MWe. A planning application is expected to be submitted to the Scottish Executive by
the end of 2004.
USA
• Palomar Power Plant
Sempra selected Kiewit Industrial as the EPC contractor for the construction of this 550 MW plant, located in Escondido, California. The plant will consist of two 170 MW GE natural gas-fired turbines, each with a duct-fired Nooter/Ericksen HRSG to supply steam to a 210 MW GE D-11 steam turbine. The plant is due to start up in 2006.
USA
• Greenbrier clean coal power plant
Western Greenbrier Cogeneration has employed Parsons as the EPC contractor for an 85 MW $215 million CFB-based power plant that will use waste coal as a fuel. Alstom will provide the CFB boiler. The plant will be located in Rainelle, West Virginia, and is part of president Bush’s Clean Coal Power Initiative. The US Secretary of Energy has formally approved the project.
Venezuela
• Tocoma hydropower project
Venezuela’s state-owned utility Edelca will decide which of five consortia are qualified to bid on the design, construction, installation, and testing of ten 216 MW Kaplan turbines for a $750 million project for a 2160 MW hydropower plant on the Lower Caroni River.