Non-renewables keep a grasp on power
Source: Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International, November/December Issue – Excerpt: Russia was also mentioned as an expanding market for non-renewable resource power plant projects by a senior executive with BDP Project Logistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based global logistics firm BDP International, but more in the context of new construction.
“Over the last two or three years we have seen growing demand for new non-renewable sector power plants in Russia, mainly gas-fired, and have been involved with the movement of transformers,” reported Luc Van Heygen, the company’s managing director, Americas and Europe. “Just in the last couple of months, we have become involved with some new power plant projects in that country.”
Opportunities
On the plant refurbishment front, he suggested that central/eastern Europe looked set to become a significant market for future project logistics business. “Two years ago there was a lot of talk about the need to refurbish non-renewable resource fuelled power plants in that region, but the actual execution of those plans seems to have been put on a low burn, probably because of the global economic crisis. The plans are still on the books, though, and those developments are going to happen over the next few years.”
Virendra Sehgal, BDP Project Logistics’ regional director, Middle East, singled out Iraq as another particularly strong market for non-renewable sector power plant refurbishment projects. “A lot of plants in that country are being refurbished with new transformers and transmission lines,” he pointed out.
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