Tag: power plant

Metso, a world leading industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries, with many locations throughout the Americas, has signed an agreement on a comprehensive valve delivery for Kilpilahti Power Plant in Porvoo, Finland.

NTE Energy officials said recently they have begun the permitting process to build the Reidsville Energy Center in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

Longview Power’s rehabilitation of its 700-megawatt power plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, has transformed an operation previously beset by frequent outages and poor performance into one of the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired plants in the United States.

Delaware, Dover City Council members agreed recently to spend more than USD $600,000 on payments toward the city's Municipal Light Plant for various acquisitions and maintenance. Included in this sum, Council approved $105,000 to be used toward replacing a boiler steam control valve that is said to be cracked and will be replaced during the plant’s annual spring shutdown.

According to the McIlvaine Company, power plant valve purchases will remain at a high level thanks to continued construction of new coal-fired power plants in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan. Next year nearly 50 percent of the $8 billion power plant valve expenditures will be by East Asian power generators.

IMMI Turbines, a manufacturer of rotating equipment and services, including valve and pipe skids, generators, compressor, pumps and more, has announced that it will build a $3.2 million heat and power generation plant in Mason City, Iowa.

A US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to relax air-pollution limits placed on power-plant emissions. The EPA instituted the rules because some gases emitted from power plants cross state lines and impact “downwind” states.

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has announced that its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania had shut down operations as of April 25th at 12:01am for scheduled refuelling and maintenance.

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two power plant units with H-class gas turbines for the Liberty combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania.

A spokeswoman for NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG)has said the company is in discussions to find potential buyers for a planned power plant in Carlsbad, California.