Asia

With China planning to almost double its capacity of electricity by the year 2010, the country is looking to overseas investors to not only construct power plants but also to help its power plant equipment manufactures increase capacity. Currently China has insufficient manufacturing capacity to meet the country`s need for new power plants.

GE Industrial & Power Systems is supplying a turnkey power plant consisting of four gas turbine-generators for a 440-MW independent power project that is being constructed at Port Dickson, south of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

China`s electricity output in the first half of 1994 rose 11.3 percent to 437.4 billion kWh and the climb is expected to continue through the end of the year, with a record 900 billion kWh projected at the close of 1994. Despite the country`s ever-increasing output capabilities, output is not meeting the needs of industry and power failures are frequent. Demand during the first half of the year grew between 22 percent and 35 percent in the southern portion of China and plans are being made for a

Everyone seems to be concerned with "the customer" these days, and those at the 39th ASME International Gas Turbine & Aeroengine Congress/Users Symposium & Exposition (Turbo Expo `94) were no exception. In fact, the theme of the June Turbo Expo was "Maintain the Edge for the User."

GEC Alsthom`s European Gas Turbines subsidiary (EGT) is working on four orders worth more than (US)$32 million to supply gas turbine power generation equipment for the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

CMS Energy Corp. (CMS) has received approval from the International Finance Corp. for a 235-MW power plant to be built in eastern India, the first independent power project under the government`s new policy opening its power sector to private investors.

Fluor Daniel has signed an agreement with the North China Electric Power Design Institute and Duke/Fluor Daniel to cooperate on power projects in China....

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), which is wholly owned by the government of Malaysia, and Black & Veatch, based in Kansas City, Mo., USA, have signed an alliance to provide technical support and services and undertake joint projects. The alliance will focus on TNB projects along with public and private projects in Malaysia and other countries.

The air pollution market in Asia is growing faster than on any other continent, according to the McIlvaine Co., which has been compiling reports on air pollution equipment purchases. China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have greatly increased purchases and are expected to be ordering systems at a rate exceeding (US)$2 billion per year by the year 2000. Largest growth is expected in the purchase of gas treatment equipment, which will account for more than (US)$1 billion by the year

The Electric Power Research Institute and Sargent & Lundy are working on a joint venture to provide packaged services for power plant studies and technology transfer in the Pacific Rim.