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Prior to the bankruptcy filing, Mirant had attempted to expand the Potrero plant, but neighborhood and community activists fought the proposal for five years and on March 2, 2006, the California Public Utilities Commission announced its rejection of Mirant's expansion plans. The plant was scheduled to be shut down sometime in 2007 in ...
Situated at Isla Grande, the Pagbilao Power Station began operations in 1993. [1] The power station was originally developed by Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd (CEPA), a subsidiary of Hopewell Holdings, CEPA was acquired by Mirant Philippines and was acquired by TeaM Energy, a joint venture of Japanese firms TEPCO and Marubeni, in 2007. [2]
Produces steam for Mindanao 1 and 2 power plants. Total 106 MW [2] [4] [5] [6] Mindanao 1 Geothermal Power Plant: Mount Apo, Kidapawan, Cotabato: 52 1997 Steam is from Mindanao Geothermal Production Field
On April 11, 2010, RRI Energy and Atlanta-based Mirant Corp. announced an agreement to merge in a $1.6 billion all-stock deal, which created one of the largest independent power plant operators in the country. The new company, named GenOn Energy, would be based in Houston but led by Mirant's Chairman and CEO Edward Muller until 2013. At that ...
A hinged expansion joint is a metallic assembly, that can rotate in a single plane, used to absorb changes resulting from piping thermal expansion or contraction. [1] Hinged Expansion Joint - U.S. Bellows, Inc. They include hinges, attached to the expansion joint ends with a pair of pins, which allow angular movement in a single plane, restrain ...
They are differentiated according to the three basic types of movement: axial, angular and lateral expansion joints. Expansion joints have usage in various sectors, like energy production, paper industry, chemical industry, water treatment, oil and gas. Expansion joints can be used wherever thermal movements or vibration occurs in pipelines.
With the completion of the said power line segment, the Balsik-Marilao-San Jose-Tayabas-Pagbilao line is now the longest 500kV power line in the country at 552.4 km in length, surpassing the Kadampat-San Manuel-San Jose line (commissioned in March 1999) at 225 km. [22] [23] [24] [25]
Mirant was merged into GenOn Energy in 2010, [4] and GenOn merged into NRG in 2012. [5] In 1991, the 900-foot (270 m)-long cooling water discharge channel from the power plant, which empties into the Potomac River, became the Dickerson Whitewater Course, a canoe and kayak training facility for the 1992 Olympic Games.