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General Atomics recently threw in its bid for the second round
of Department of Energy (DOE) funding through a cost-shared
partnership for up to two SMR designs. At least three other
companies are vying for the opportunity that could accelerate
commercialization of an SMR design by 2022: NuScale Power of
Corvallis, Ore. (see the article on that technology in this issue);
Westinghouse Electric, based in Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Holtec International,
based in Marlton, N.J. An announcement from the
DOE is expected in September.
The first cost-share funding award went to Babcock & Wilcox
(B&W) for its mPower SMR technology. The exact level of funding
to B&W has not been disclosed, though that company has
since said that the cost-share award will enable it to accelerate
research and development spending to meet program milestones
and allow it to limit net spending to between $85 million and
$95 million in 2013 alone.
POWER Digest
Jordan's First Nuclear Reactor Gets Construction Green
Light. Jordanian regulators on Aug. 20 granted permission for
construction to begin at the Jordan Research and Training Reactor
(JRTR) at the Jordan University for Science and Technology
north of Amman. The 5-MWt version of the Korea Atomic Energy
Institute's 30-MWt Hanaro design is expected to cost $130 million.
The reactor is expected to be operational in 2016, built by South
Korea's Daewoo Engineering Construction with involvement from
Korea Nuclear Energy Promotion Agency. Jordan is looking to build
a 1,200-MW nuclear power plant by 2020 and a second one by
2025. The country's power demand is expected to double by 2030,
and officials say new nuclear will be integral to supplying energy
(over 95% of which is currently imported) for the country.
MHI Gets Taiwan Order for 2.6-GW J-Power Gas Turbines.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and CTCI Corp. on Sept.
4 received a full-turnkey order from Taipower for a project to
construct a 2,600-MW gas turbine combined cycle (CCGT) power
plant in Tunghsiao Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. The project
consisting of three islands of CCGT power generation systems will
feature two of MHI's most advanced M501J gas turbines, one
steam turbine, a heat recovery steam generator, and three generators.
MHI will be responsible for the manufacture and supply
of the gas and steam turbines. CTCI will handle construction and
installation at the plant site as well as EPC work for the balance
of plant. The generators will be produced by Mitsubishi Electric
Corp. The three CCGT islands are slated to begin operations sequentially
between September 2016 and June 2017.
Brazil's Newest Wind Auction Garners Contracts for 66
New Wind Farms. Contracts were secured to purchase power
from about 1,500 MW of nameplate generating capacity that is
slated to come online by September 2015 in Brazil's Aug. 23 wind
energy auction closed by ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).
Of the 9 GW proposed, contracts were awarded to companies
that offer to sell energy for the lowest price to the country's
electricity distributors. Those prices had an average of R$110.51/
MWh (US$46.3/MWh). A total of 66 wind parks successfully bid
for contracts to power Brazil's national grid for a period of 20
years. These will be installed at a total cost of about $2.28 billion
in the states of Bahia (28), Ceará (6), Pernambuco (7), Piauí
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