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ATTENTION BOILER OWNERS

• EPA No Longer Accepting Paper Submittals

  EPA is no longer accepting paper submittals of the Notification of Compliance Status (NOCS) for Energy Assessments for area source boilers. We now require the NOCS to be submitted electronically to the Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI). For further information, please see the implementation videos.

• EPA And Industry Fail To Settle Waste Unit Risk Policy Fight

  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry groups including cement producers have failed to settle a permit dispute that is testing whether the agency has the authority to require operators of hazardous waste combustion units to conduct risk assessments that can be used to strengthen emissions limits for mercury and other pollutants when renewing the facilities' existing waste and air permits. Negotiations stalled during a meeting in November 2013 between EPA lawyers and cement kiln operators at EPA's Region V offices, according to an 8 January 2014 status report the parties filed with the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB). Litigation will continue on 20 February 2014.

• EPA Publishes Final Boiler MACT And Other Rules - Compliance Dates Set

  On January 31, 2013, U.S. EPA published the final Boiler MACT in the Federal Register. This sets the existing source compliance date as January 31, 2016.

• EPA Reopens Public Comment Period On Reconsideration Of Startup And Shutdown Provisions

  EPA is reopening, for 60 days, the public comment period on the startup and shutdown provisions included in the November 2012 proposed updates to pollution limits for new power plants under Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

• EPA Updates The Mercury And Air Toxics Standards For New Power Plants

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated emission limits for new power plants under the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). The updates only apply to future power plants; do not change the types of state-of-the-art pollution controls that they are expected to install; and will not significantly change costs or public health benefits of the rule.

• EPA Finally Amends Its Boiler MACT Regulations And Further Defines Fuels Versus Wastes

  Boiler owners beware – EPA has “finalized” its Boiler MACT, GACT, CISWI and NHSM rules and the compliance clocks have begun ticking.

SUPPLIER NEWS

• GE Hitachi Selected By U.S. Department Of Energy To Lead Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Project For BWRX-300 With Exelon, Bechtel, HGNE And MIT

  GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to lead a team of industry experts for an advanced nuclear technology development project

• North America’s First Multi-Megawatt Power-To-Gas Facility Begins Operations

  Hydrogenics Corporation (NASDAQ:HYGS) (TSX:HYG) (“Hydrogenics” or “the Company”), a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen fuel cell power systems, today announced that the Markham Energy Storage Facility, owned and operated under a joint venture between Hydrogenics and Enbridge Gas Distribution, is now providing regulation services under contract to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) of Ontario

• UTC Aerospace Systems Teams With KAES Hanwha To Provide Best-In-Class Power Generation For KF-X

  UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today announced that it has signed a contract with KAES Hanwha to provide the main electric power generation system (MEPGS) to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) for its KF-X advanced multirole fighter jet. Under the agreement, KAES Hanwha and UTC Aerospace Systems will design, develop and produce the MEPGS

• Vestas To Deliver 112 MW Turnkey Solution For Palisade’s Granville Harbour Wind Farm, Will Power More Than 46,000 Tasmanian Households

  Australian-based Palisade Investment Partners Limited (Palisade) has placed a 112 MW turnkey order with Vestas for the Granville Harbour Wind Farm in Tasmania, Australia. Vestas has developed a solution with Palisade that is customised to Tasmania’s excellent wind conditions, and that will provide low-cost renewable energy that can power more than 46,000 local homes

• PureGen Power Announces Acquisition Of Operating Solar Power Plant

  PureGen Power, LLC, a clean energy asset ownership company, recently announced the acquisition of a 1.16MW solar power plant in Visalia, California - the first of several planned for the company’s inaugural investment fund, PureGen Solar One. Commissioned in 2009, the Visalia power plant consists of 5,500 solar PV modules ground mounted on a single-axis tracking system with energy provided to the commercial site host