District Energy - 2005 Fourth Quarter

Industry
News

The Schermerhorn Symphony Center was connected to the system May 31, and the Metro Public Library was connected for chilled-water service July 31 and steam service Aug. 1.

Construction on the Justice A.A. Birch Building, Metro’s new Criminal and General Sessions court building, is well under way. It is expected to be connected to the system in early spring 2006. The Viridian Tower construction is also on schedule, with connection to the chilled-water system scheduled in early spring 2006 as well.

Qatar Cool Signs Financing
Agreement

Qatar Cool has signed a $69 million agreement with a consortium of local and regional banks for part financing of a district cooling system to serve the West Bay com-

mercial and residential precinct in Doha, Qatar. The lenders included Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Investment C., Ahli United Bank, First Gulf Bank and Ahli Bank. Commercialbank was the sole lead arranger for the financing facility.

The 10-year loan facility will partially finance Qatar Cool’s $92 million project, which will supply chilled-water cooling to the rapidly developing West Bay area. The district cooling system will include two chilled-water plants, a distribution network and energy transfer stations. The first cooling plant is due to be completed in April 2006, about the same time as many of the West Bay building projects; construction on the second plant will begin in January 2006.

Qatar Cool has secured contracts for the supply of more than 40,000 tons of

cooling in 29 buildings, including such new developments as the Commercialbank Tower, the Alfardan Towers and the Al Dana Tower. The West Bay system will also serve the Al Rabban residential tower, M Tower and five new city center hotels. The first stage of the West Bay district cooling project will have a 60,000 tons of cooling capacity – enough to cool 50 to 60 typical office towers in the region.

Europe’s Largest Biomass
Plant Slated for Austria

Siemens Power Generation (PG) is building Europe’s largest forest-biomass-fired power plant in Vienna, Austria. The order is valued at more than 50 million euros or $60.2 million. The purchaser is WIEN ENERGIE Bundesforste Biomasse Kraftwerk GmbH & Co. KG. Following the

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