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WTO Rules Against India in Solar Power Dispute. A mandate
that certain types of solar cells and modules used for India's
ambitious state-backed solar initiative must be domestically
manufactured violate trade agreements, a World Trade Organization
(WTO) panel ruled in February. The panel found for the
U.S., which had complained that domestic content requirements
concerning the 2010-launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar
Mission (JNNSM) violate India's national treatment obligations
under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Agreement
on Trade-Related Investment Measures. JNNSM aims to ultimately
generate 100 GW of grid-connected solar power capacity
by 2022. India had argued that domestic content requirements
for the first phases of the initiative were justified because they
would help avoid supply risks and avoid disruption in imports of
foreign-made equipment.
Siemens Chosen to Supply H-Class Flex-Plant to Ohio
Facility. A new 940-MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power
plant in Lordstown, Ohio, developed by Clean Energy Future
will include two gas turbines, one steam turbine, three generators,
and a SPPA-T3000 control system from Siemens, which will
provide engineering, procurement, and construction services. In
addition, Siemens has signed a long-term service agreement covering
the units at the Lordstown Energy Center. The service will
include Siemens advanced remote monitoring and diagnostics.
Siemens Financial Services co-funded the development loan and
will provide a 27% equity investment, with Macquarie Infrastructure
Partners III providing 73%. The plant is slated for operation
in summer 2018.
Uniper Hastens to Complete Coal Plant in Germany. E.ON
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spinoff Uniper plans to restart construction of the coal-fired Datteln
4 power plant in Germany's Ruhr area. The 1.1-GW plant,
which promises a net efficiency of more than 45%, is " largely
finished, " Uniper said on March 9, but it has been bogged down
by permitting problems. The company got the Münster district
government's permission to restart the project in March and said
it is confident that the project will get approval under Germany's
emission control law, which governs industrial impacts on the
environment and public health. Uniper said it wants to put the
power plant into operation " as soon as possible " to ensure reliable
long-term security of supply and heat for the district heating
system. Completion could take about two years.
E.ON, Germany's largest power company, split its business in
January and combined its portfolio of large-scale power generation
and supply chains under Uniper. In early March, however, it
reported its biggest-ever annual loss of $7.7 billion after writing
down the value of its coal and gas-fired power plants. German
power firms RWE AG and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG have
also been financially bruised by Germany's shift to renewables.
Australia Launches Clean Energy Fund. Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull's government is setting up a new $1 billion
clean energy fund to lend to or take an equity state in new
technology. The Clean Energy Innovation Fund will receive the
funds over 10 years from the A$10 billion already allocated to the
existing Clean Energy Finance Corp., which former Prime Minister
Tony Abbott had sought to abolish (efforts which the Senate
twice rejected).
Norwegian Firms Team Up for Giant Onshore Wind Farm.
Statkraft, TrønderEnergi and the European investor consortium
Nordic Wind Power in late February announced plans to build
a 1-GW onshore wind project in Central Norway. Construction of
the €1.1 billion project, comprising six wind farms to be built on
the Fosen peninsula, the island of Hitra, and in Snillfjord, is expected
to begin in the second quarter of 2016 and be completed
in 2020. The Fosen Vind project portfolio includes the Harbaksfjellet,
Roan, Storheia, and Kvenndalsfjellet wind farms north of
the Trondheim Fjord (about 750 MW), as well as the Geitfjellet
and Hitra 2 wind farms south of the Trondheim Fjord (about 250
MW). The project will use 278 wind turbines of 3.6 MW capacity
(Vestas V117-3.45 MW and V112-3.45 MW turbines with power
optimized mode to 3.6 MW). Joint venture company Fosen Vind
DA will be the owner of the wind farms.
BHEL Starts Up 700-MW Coal Unit in Karnataka. India's
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Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) has commissioned a 700MW
supercritical thermal power unit at the Bellary coal-fired
power plant in Karnataka. The plant operated by the Karnataka
Power Corp. and built by BHEL as the engineering, procurement,
and construction contractor has two existing 500-MW coal units
built in 2007 and 2012.
Lightbridge and AREVA to Jointly Develop Metallic Nuclear
Fuel. U.S. nuclear fuel technology company Lightbridge
and French nuclear firm AREVA have agreed to jointly develop,
manufacture, and commercialize fuel assemblies based on Lightbridge's
next-generation metallic nuclear fuel technology. The
parties agreed to share the cost of the work scope to be performed
under the agreement. AREVA will contribute in-kind for
its share of the costs. Lightbridge's Nuclear Utility Fuel Advisory
Board-which includes experts from Dominion Resources,
Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Duke Energy, and Exelon
Generation-has called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
to prepare to review a license application for the patented metallic
fuel design in 2017. ■
-Sonal Patel is a POWER associate editor.
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