Canada

l Brighton Beach Power LP, a partnership between ATCO Power Ltd and Ontario Power Generation has signed an energy conversion agreement with Coral Energy Canada Inc for a proposed Brighton Beach power station in Windsor, Ontario. Under the terms of the deal Coral will supply the power plant with natural gas and will purchase and market all the electricity produced by the plant. The Brighton Beach plant will be a 580 MW combined cycle station. The project is being constructed at the site of the former J C Keith generating station. The plants will comprises two gas turbines and a steam turbine. Construction is due to begin this year with service scheduled for the spring of 2004. Coral will sell the power from the plant into the Ontario electricity market which is due to open for business on 1 May.

Israel, Italy and Portugal

l Siemens Power Generation has announced orders for power plants in Portugal, Italy and Israel worth close to u600 million. In Portugal the company is to lead a consortium building a 780 MW combined cycle plant with two gas turbine units. The consortium’s contract value is u400 million, half of which will go to Siemens. The project company, Termoelectrica de Ribatejo, has signed an option for a second plant at the same site with a capacity of 390 MW. In Italy Siemens is partnering Fiat Engineering to build a 380 MW combined cycle project near Turin worth a total of u200 million. The plant will be able to supply electricity or electricity and heat. In Israel, meanwhile, the Israel Electric Corp has chosen Siemens to supply equipment for three combined cycle stations, each rated at over 370 MW. Total value of these orders amounts to u300 million.

Mexico

l Westinghouse Process Control, part of Emerson Process Management, is to provide information and control systems for two new power plants in Mexico. The systems, based on the company’s Ovation software, will be installed at plants in Campeche and Baja California. ICA/Flour Daniel is architect engineer for both projects. The facility under construction at Palizada, Campeche, is a 252MW combined cycle plant fuelled with natural gas. In Baja California, a 600MW combined cycle plant is being built at Mexicali, also fired with natural gas. The Campeche plant will be owned by the Canadian company Trans Alta while the Mexicali plant will be owned by Sempra Energy, a US company.

South Korea

l Korea Western Power Co, a subsidiary of Korean Electric Power Corp, has signed a contract with Norway’s GE Energy AS for the supply of turbines for two power plants. GE Energy will supply the units to be used in two pumped storage hydropower plants with a capacity of 600 MW. Construction of the two plants, which are expected to cost $304 million, began in September 2000 and they are due to be completed before the end of 2006. The order was won in competition with Doosan Heavy Industries, Toshiba and VA Tech. Korean Western Power is one of five generating companies which have been put up for sale in South Korea in a bid to privatise part of the power industry. Privatisation is being driven by the need for a major increase in generating capacity in the country to keep up with demand.

Turkey

l A consortium of Austrian and Turkish companies has won a contract to build the Ermenek hydropower plant in Turkey. The 306 MW generating station is to be built in the Taurus Mountains in the southern part of Turkey. The run-of-river project, comprising two generating units, is part of a national power capacity expansion plan for the country. It will cost around E550 million to complete. The scheme will be constructed by a consortium led by the Turkish company BM Muhendislik ve Insaat. It will include Alpine Mayreder Bau, Alstom Power Austria, VA Tech Hydro, Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation and Verbundplan. The project is being financed by an international bank consortium, coordinated by Alstom Power.

UK

l The Cruachan pumped storage hydropower plant in Scotland is to be refurbished by a consortium comprising the Austrian company VA Tech Hydro and GE Hydro. Under the terms of the deal with Scottish Power the two companies will refurbish and upgrade units 1 and 2 at the power plant. Each unit comprises a 130 MW vertical radial pump turbine. VA Tech Hydro will be responsible for design, fabrication, supply, installation and commissioning of the motor-generators and the refurbishment of the pony motors while GE Hydro will refurbish, upgrade and replace the pump turbine components and the main inlet valves and replace the turbine governor system. VA Tech Reyrolle, acting as subcontractor, will refurbish the 3.3 kV distribution switcher. The project aims to increase power output by more than 30 per cent.

UK

l Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has secured an engineering, procurement and construction management contract from Immingham CHP for the 730 MW combined heat and power plant to be built alongside Conoco’s Humber Refinery in South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. The facility, costing over $300 million, will supply steam and electricity to the Humber refinery, steam to neighbouring Lindsey oil refinery and electricity to the National Grid. Foster Wheeler will be responsible for the detailed engineering, design, procurement, construction management, commissioning, startup, performance testing and turnover of the completed plant.

USA

l North American Energy Services Co has signed an operation and maintenance contract with Wildflower Energy LP, a subsidiary of InterGen, for the operation of Larkspur Energy LLC, a 90MW gas turbine power plant in San Diego, California and Indigo Generation LLC, a 135 MW gas turbine plant in Palm Springs, California. Both plants employ LM6000 Sprint simple cycle combustion turbines.

USA

l Alstom has been awarded a contract by East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) to design, supply and build a 268 MW coal-fired circulating fluidised bed boiler at the utility’s H L Spurlock power station site near Maysville, Kentucky. EKPC broke ground for the project in February and commercial operation is scheduled for late 2004. The new boiler, named the E A Gilbert unit, will cost $142 million. It will be the third generating unit at the plant and will be sited adjacent to a 500 MW pulverised coal unit built in 1981. Fuel for the fluidised bed boiler will be supplied primarily from Kentucky mines. The plant will also be equipped with an Alstom flash dryer absorber system to complement reduction of emissions carried out by in-furnace techniques. The complete emission control system is expected to enable the unit to achieve close to 98 per cent sulphur removal.

USA

l Tractebel Project Development has started construction of a 720 MW combined cycle power plant in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. The merchant power plant will be fuelled with natural gas and will utilise Siemens Westinghouse 501 G combustion turbines. The plant will provide power into the Entergy Market, a sub-section of the Southeastern Electricity Reliability Council which includes parts of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.