Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been contracted to perform the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) services for the gasification and power island of the Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) project. The FEED effort is already underway, MHI said today, forecasting works will be completed by March 2013.
Alstom, a leading global power generation company, has secured GT13E2 gas turbine generator contract and long-term service agreement in China. Alstom Senior VP Gas Business, Mark Coxon, said the contract win represents "Alstom's determination in returning to the Chinese gas power generation market".
Retrofitting chiller equipment to a combined cycle power plant has netted a gain of US$1 million for PT Mitra Energi, Noor Wahyu Hidayat, CEO told delegates at the 6th annual Gas Turbines conference in Singapore. Hidayat was describing a case study of a successful combined cycle gas turbine power plant (CCGT) retrofit at the Batam power plant (165 MW).
Glow Group - GDF Suez has claimed significant success in efforts at achieving gas turbine performance optimization at its plant in Thailand near Bangkok. Somgiat Dekrajangpetch, Vice-President, Asset Optimisation attributed the success to getting it right on three vital counts - selecting the model for each unit, careful compilation of data and proper evaluation of the results.
Italy's Enel and Duferco, an iron and steel producer, are close to start operations of a 415-MW gas-fired power plant in the Belgian region of Wallonia. "The plant is currently in its commissioning stage and we are planning to start operations shortly," Matteo de Zan, head of Enel's industrial development, generation and energy management division told 'Gas-to-Power Journal'.
Manila Electric Company (MERALCO), the major electricity supplier in the Philippines, said it will enter a partnership with a Japanese utility to realise the first gas-fired power plant project in the Philippines in more than 10 years. Operational start of the new 1,500-MW gas-fired plant, due to build on Luzon island, is scheduled for completion in late 2016. MERALCO declined to reveal the name of its Japanese partner as it has not yet completed the feasibility study for the plant.
General Electric (GE) has shipped 12 LM6000-PC Sprint™ aeroderivative gas turbine-generators to the Dorad Energy power plant in Ashkelon, Israel, to fulfil part of its US$200 million contract with Wood Group GTS. GE said today it expects the 50-megawatt unit to start commercial operation in the second half of 2013.