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Emerson secures equipment supply order for Saudi power plant
Thursday, November 10, 2011 Emerson Process Management has received a $10m order to supply Fisher control valves for the 2,800MW Rabigh Power Plant No.2 project in Saudi...

BPI to build $4bn coal-fired power plant in Indonesia
Thursday, October 13, 2011 PT Bhimasena Power Indonesia (BPI) will build a 2,000MW coal-fired power plant in Central Java, Indonesia, at an estimated cost of...

Oriental Peninsula to set up power plants in the Philippines
Monday, September 26, 2011 Oriental Peninsula Resources Group has unveiled plans to invest $300m to build coal-fired power plants in Manila, the...

Hyundai to construct $1.27bn coal-fired plant in Vietnam
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Hyundai Engineering & Construction has secured a $1.27bn contract to construct the main plant at the Mong Duong power project in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. The first turbine of...

Metso to supply biomass boiler plant to Eneco
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Metso has secured a €155m contract from Dutch-based Eneco to supply a 49MWe biomass-fired boiler plant in Delfzijl in the Netherlands. The plant will be contructed by a...

HPGCL receives environmental clearance for gas-fired plant in Haryana
Thursday, September 08, 2011 Indian state-owned utility Haryana Power Generation (HPGCL) has received environmental clearance for the construction of a 1,500MW gas-based power project in Haryana, India. The federal...

AES secures $1.5bn loan to build coal-fired plant in Vietnam
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 AES has secured a $1.5bn loan to begin construction at its planned 1,200MW Mong Duong II coal-fired power plant in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. The company received the loan from...

Capital Power and TransAlta begin operations at 495MW coal-fired plant in Canada
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 Capital Power and TransAlta have begun commercial operations at the 495MW Keephills 3 generating facility in Canada, which has been built at an estimated cost of $1.98bn. Capital Power...

NextEra sells natural gas-fired plants to LS Power for $1.05bn
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 NextEra Energy Resources has signed an agreement with LS Power to sell four of its natural-gas-fired power plants in the US for $1.05bn. The assets to be sold by NextEra include 507MW...

Greens installs HRSGs at gas-fired plant in India
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Greens Holdings has installed two heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) at the 225MW gas-fired power station in Northern India. These newly installed HRSGs will work in conjunction with...

Calpine secures loan to upgrade gas-fired plant in the US
Friday, August 26, 2011 Calpine has secured a $373m credit facility to finance the 120MW upgrade works of its Los Esteros critical energy facility in California, US. The facility will be upgraded from a...

Initec Energia to build 500MW gas-fired plant in Brazil
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Initec Energia has secured a €260m contract to construct a 500MW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Maranhao, Brazil. The company secured the deal from MPX Energia, an energy...

Abengoa Bioenergy receives loan guarantee to build refinery in the US
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Abengoa Bioenergy has received a conditional commitment for a $133.9m federal loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy to build its bio refinery unit in Kansas, the US. The refinery...

KEP shuts 600MW unit at Japan power plant
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Kyushu Electric Power has shut down operations at its 600MW No 4 unit at its gas-fired Shin-Kokura power plant in Japan. The unit experienced an automatic shut down of a steam turbine,...

NTPC to build $2.1bn thermal power plant in India
Monday, August 22, 2011 State-owned National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) has unveiled plans to construct a Rs100bn ($2.17bn) thermal power plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The 1,320MW plant will...

Sahara India and Korea East-West to develop 6,000MW projects in India
Monday, August 22, 2011 Sahara India Power has signed an agreement to form a partnership with Korea East-West Power to develop power projects with combined a capacity of up to 6,000MW in India. The agreement...

OCI secures civil work contract from Cairo Electricity
Monday, August 22, 2011 Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) has secured a contract worth $181m to provide civil work for a 1,500MW combined cycle power plant in Giza, Egypt. The Cairo Electricity Production...

Semirara Mining acquires loan for Filipino coal plant expansion
Friday, August 19, 2011 Semirara Mining will receive a PHP14bn ($329.27m) loan to finance the construction of two generating units next to its coal plant in Batangas in the Philippines. The project involves...

Shikoku Electric Shuts 269MW Unit at Skaide Plant in Japan
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Shikoku Electric Power has closed operations at its 269MW No 1 unit at its gas-fired Sakaide plant in Japan. The plant was closed due to the concerns over a steam leak from a boiler...

Chinese Consortium to Build $1.5bn Coal-Fired Plant in Vietnam
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Vietnam Electricity (EVN) group has awarded Chengda-Dec-Swepdi-Zepc consortium an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build the 1,245MW Duyen Hai 3 thermal power plant in Tra...