AES Completes 454MW Coal-Fired Power Plant to Diversify Puerto Rico's Current Oil-Fired Generation

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). AES Puerto Rico (Guayama, Puerto Rico), a division of the AES Aurora group of AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) (Richmond, Virginia), is completing construction of two coal-fired circulating fluidized bed boilers with two 227 mega-watt (MW) steam turbine/generators to produce 454MW of power (15% of existing power and 9% of total electricity) and 400,000 lbs/hr of process steam which will be supplied to a Chevron Phillips Petrochemical facility.

With Duke/Fluor Daniel (Charlotte, North Carolina) as the Turn-Key Contractor and ABB-CE Utility Power Boiler (Windsor, Connecticut) as the Major Equipment Vendor, AES started construction in November of 1999. The plant is equipped with dry scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, and selective non-catalytic reduction units to control Sulfur dioxide, NOx, and particulate emissions.

AES is a leading global power company that provides competitive generation, distribution, and retail energy supply services. The company's generating assets include interests in 177 facilities totaling over 59 giga-watts of capacity. AES's electricity distribution network has over 727,000 km of conductor and associated rights of way and sells over 108,000 giga-watt hours per year to over 16 million end-use customers. AES is dedicated to providing electricity worldwide in a socially responsible way.