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able for nuclear damage would increase the amount of compensation
available to address civil damage from C$75 million to C$1
billion. Replacing legislation that is almost 40 years old, the bill
that will be debated in Parliament this fall is also expected to
broaden the number of categories for which compensation may
be sought and improve procedures for delivering compensation.
Canada also said it intends to join the International Atomic
Energy Agency's Convention on Supplementary Compensation for
Nuclear Damage. The country whose nuclear power sector produces
about C$5 billion in annual revenues is also overhauling
its nuclear regulatory system and restructuring Atomic Energy of
Canada Ltd.
Adani Power Starts Third Supercritical Coal Unit. Ahmedabad-based
Adani Power on June 19 commissioned the third 660MW
unit of its supercritical power plant in Tiroda, Maharashtra,
India. When completed, the project-Maharashtra's biggest power
generation facility-will have five units for a total of 3.3 GW.
The first two 660-MW units were commissioned last year, and
the third unit was commissioned within a record 20 days from
synchronization (the industry standard is three months), Adani
Power's parent Adani Group said. Adani Power last year put online
India's largest private high-voltage direct current power
transmission system, which connects the recently completed 4.6MW
coal-fired Mundra power plant in Gujarat to power-strapped
northern India. The 500-kV project runs a distance of 1,000 km
and has a transmission capacity of 2.5 MW.
Siemens, Statkraft Start Knapsack II Combined Cycle
Plant. Siemens Energy on June 13-six weeks ahead of schedule-completed
the 430-MW Knapsack II combined-cycle power
plant near Cologne, Germany, for Statkraft Markets GmbH, a
subsidiary of the Norwegian utility company Statkraft. The single-shaft
unit, which boasts an efficiency of 59.2% was completed
as a turnkey project. It includes an F-Class turbine as well
as a steam turbine generator and heat recovery steam generator.
A natural gas supply line from a connection point in Wesseling to
the location of the power plant in Hürth-Knapsack with a length
of 13.2 km was laid to make the operation of the power plant
possible. The short run-up and shutdown times make the power
plant ideally suited to compensate for the fluctuating feed-in
of renewables, Siemens said. Statkraft has said, however, that
it is constantly reevaluating the economic viability of gas-fired
projects in Germany, noting that profitable capacity utilization
of efficient gas plants is under significant pressure due to high
natural gas prices and increased renewables generation.
DONG Energy to Sell Onshore Wind, Hydro Business.
Danish firm DONG Energy could sell its onshore wind business in
Denmark to energy firm SE and Danish pension fund PFA for $132
million under a June 25 agreement. The divestment concerns a
total of 272 wind turbines (a total nameplate capacity of 196
MW) located at about 80 different sites in Denmark and with an
average operational track record of 16 years. DONG Energy in late
June also signed an agreement with Voimapiha AB, a consortium
consisting of the three Finnish energy companies Kymppivoima,
EPV Energy, and Helsingin Energia, under which Voimapiha AB
will acquire DONG Energy's entire ownership stake of 25.673% in
the Swedish hydro power company Kraftgården AB. Kraftgården
AB owns and operates seven hydro power plants along the Swedish
river Indalsälven, with a total capacity of 626 MW. The measures
follow DONG Energy's February announcement that it would
divest non-core assets of a $1.74 billion value between 2013
and 2014 and that its wind power business will focus on offshore
wind in the future. ■
-Sonal Patel is POWER's senior writer.
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