Foxboro Selected for Nepco Power Plant Project.
The Foxboro Company, Foxboro, Mass., has received an automation order valued at more than a million dollars from NEPCO, the Engineering Procurement Contractor for the 1,160 MW Kendall County Generation Facility. Foxboro's scope of supply includes an I/A Series control system and power plant applications, plus engineering, start-up assistance, and training services. Foxboro's advanced "FoxRemote" capability will enable NEPCO engineers to remotely troubleshoot the system from their headquarters in Washington state.This greenfield facility, located approximately 40 miles south of Chicago in Minooka, Illinois, will be owned and operated by LSP-Kendall Energy, LLC, an affilliate of LS Power, LLC. The project is scheduled for completion in 2002.
The Kendall County Generation Facility will have a total Combined Cycle generating capacity of 1160 MW from four F class gas turbines, four steam turbines, four Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) and Balance of Plant (BOP).
NEPCO, Bothell, Washington, is an ISO 9001 certified, full service engineering and construction company with over 60 years of experience in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of high efficiency, combustion turbine, simple and combined cycle, cogeneration plants, as well as conventional and waste fueled power generating facilities. NEPCO is a subsidiary of Enron.
The Foxboro Company (http://www.foxboro.com ) is a global supplier of instruments, systems, software, and services for industrial process automation. Foxboro's automation solutions provide measurable performance improvements, guaranteed, with no capital investment required. Foxboro is part of the US-based Software Systems division of Invensys plc (http://www.invensys.com) of London, England.
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| Publication: | Worldwide Energy |
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| Geographic Code: | 1USA |
| Date: | Jan 1, 2001 |
| Words: | 252 |
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