Savannah Electric & Power Begins Additions to Georgia Power Station

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Savannah Electric & Power Company (Savannah, Georgia), a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) (Atlanta, Georgia), began construction on the additions to the McIntosh Power Station (Plant 1000343) located in Rincon, Georgia in Effingham County.

Construction for the new additions began in late August 2003 and is scheduled to be completed by the summer of 2005. The project (PEC 17001721) will consist of four 171 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired GE Power Systems MS7001FA PG7241 (Frame 7FA's) combustion turbine generators, attached to Deltak heat recovery steam generators (HRSG's), and two 288 MW Alstom Power Incorporated steam turbine generators all of which will operate in a combined-cycle configuration. The additions to the McIntosh Station will boost its generating capacity by 620-megawatts.

The general construction contract was awarded to W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Yates specializes in commercial, industrial, institutional, hospitality, multi-family/condominium, heavy, marine, electrical and highway construction.