wiredInUSA February 2019

New mill with export aims

Reviewing the wind power situation

Mukand Sumi Special Steel Ltd (MSSSL), a joint venture between Mukand Ltd, India, and Sumitomo Corporation, Japan, has placed an order with SMS group for a special bar quality rolling mill for the production of bar and rod. The new mill will adjoin Mukand’s existing steel making facilities near Hospet in Karnataka. MSSSL plans to export products from the unit. In its first stage the mill will have an annual capacity of 400,000 tons, but capacity will increase to 600,000 tons per year in a second stage. The mill will comprise a walking-beam reheating furnace with a capacity of 75 tons per hour in the first stage, and 110 tons per hour in a second stage, 18 housingless two-high stands in H/V arrangement, a precision sizing mill (PSM ® ), shears, cooling lines, cooling bed with finishing facilities, a wire rod line with a ten-stand wire rod block, laying head, loop cooling conveyor (LCC ® ), coil handling equipment and a coil compactor. Wire rod in 5.5mm to 22mm diameters will be produced on the wire rod block at a maximum speed of 90m per second. The signing of the agreement between Mukand Sumi Special Steel Ltd and SMS group

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Danish offshore wind company Ørsted A/S, is reviewing plans for investments in Taiwan, having been unable to secure a key permit for 900MW of offshore wind projects in time for the 2018 feed-in tariff. The company says it missed the 2 nd January 2019 deadline for signing with Taipower because Taiwan’s bureauofenergydelayedtheestablishment permit for the Greater Changhua projects. The Taiwanese government in November suggested a cut to the offshore wind feed-in tariff in 2019 and also proposed a cap of 3,600 on annual full-load hours. In December, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said the new rules in Taiwan could reduce project revenues by roughly 20 percent, rendering projects “non-investable”. Ørsted offshore CEO Martin Neubert stressed in a press release that significant changes to these proposals will be needed for Ørsted to progress any further towards a final investment decision on the Taiwanese projects. Ørsted believes the feed-in tariff needs to reflect the high costs involved in building Greater Changhua 1 and 2a, including essential onshore grid infrastructure upgrades, and the cost of operating and maintaining wind farms in waters susceptible to typhoons and earthquakes.

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