American Electric Installing 500-Megawatt Combined-Cycle Unit at Louisiana Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) (Shreveport, Louisiana), a subsidiary of American Electric Power Company (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio), is in the process of installing a 500-megawatt (MW) natural-gas-fired combined-cycle unit at its 125 MW Arsenal Hill Power Station in Shreveport, Louisiana. The station is called Arsenal Hill because it was built on top of a civil war arsenal in 1912; its current operating unit, Unit 55, was installed in 1960.

Construction of the J. Lamar Stall unit began in March and is begin commercial operation by June 2010. The new unit will utilize a hodgepodge of equipment; there will be two Siemens Westinghouse gas-fired 501FD combustion turbine/generators, two Nooter/Erickson heat recovery steam generators and a General Electric D-11 steam turbine/generator. Sargent Lundy (Chicago, Illinois) is handling the engineering and The Industrial Company's (TIC) (Steamboat Springs, Colorado) Kingwood, Texas, office is handling the construction of the J. Lamar Stall unit.

The addition of the combined-cycle unit will cost about $375 million and will require a construction staff of about 350 people. Once the unit is operational it will require a staff of 29 people, up from the current 14 now on site.

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