Cogentrix Underway on Construction of Two 810MW Plants in Mississippi, in an Advisory from Industrialinfo.com.Business/Energy Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001 Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , Inc.; Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the ). Cogentrix Energy Incorporated (Charlotte, N.C.), a leading Private Energy Producer (PEP), began mobilizing staff and contractors to two construction sites in Mississippi during the summer of this year to construct two new power plants. The two projects, identical to each other in design and on almost the same timetable as each other, began construction back in June of 2001. The 810MW mega-watt (MW) Southaven Power electric generating facility located in Southaven, Miss., five miles south of Memphis on the Mississippi and Tennessee state line, is expected to be commissioned by June of 2003. National Energy Production Corporation (NEPCO NEPCO Northeastern Power Company (McAdoo, PA) NEPCO North East Polish Community Organisation (UK) NEPCO Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company ) (Bothell, Wash.), a division of ENRON Corporation Enron Corporation, U.S. company that in 2001 became the largest bankruptcy and stock collapse in U.S. history up to that time. The company was formed in 1985 when InterNorth purchased Houston Natural Gas to create the country's longest natural-gas pipeline network. (Houston), has been awarded the turn-key EPC (1) (Entertainment PC) See HTPC. (2) (Electronic Product Code) A standard code for RFID tags administered by EPCglobal Inc. (www.epcglobalinc.org). contract to construct the facility. The 810MW Caledonia Generating facility, located near the Mississippi Alabama state border eighteen miles north of Columbus, received final financing in July of this year and is also on schedule to be commissioned by June of 2003. NEPCO was awarded this job as well. A long-term power sales agreement has been reached with PG&E Trading-Power LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (Bethesda, Md.), a subsidiary of PG&E National Energy Group, to accept the entire electrical output from both plants and deliver the natural gas to fuel the facilities. Both natural gas-fired plants, utilizing the same design drawings to lower costs, consist of three units with General Electric Frame 7FA combustion turbines and heat recovery steam generators with duct burners supplying waste heat and supplementary fired steam to a single steam turbine Steam turbine A machine for generating mechanical power in rotary motion from the energy of steam at temperature and pressure above that of an available sink. By far the most widely used and most powerful turbines are those driven by steam. generator. Each plant will cost in excess of $300 million to construct. Cogentrix acquires, develops, owns and operates electric generation and other power assets in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and internationally. Cogentrix has, in whole or in part, equity interests in 25 facilities in 10 states providing it with a total of approximately 1,840MW of electric generation out of a total plant capability of 4,000MW. They are currently financing and constructing additional plants that will deliver an additional 2,150MW of energy and have in active development projects totaling in excess of 6,500MW. Industrialinfo.com provides daily news related to the industrial market place including industry alerts and databases for the energy and industrial markets. For more information on trends and upcoming construction activities for the Energy and Power markets as well as other industrial sectors send inquiries to powergroup@industrialinfo.com or visit us at www.industrialinfo.com and www.iirenergy.com. |
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