American Electric Power to Spend $2.2 Billion on Coal-Fired Power Plants

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio) has committed to spend approximately $2.2-billion to install Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) scrubbers at its coal plants throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia in the next five years to comply with environmental regulations.

Scrubbers, used to reduce up to ninety-five percent of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, will be installed on Units #1 and #2 at the Cardinal Power Station (Brilliant, Ohio) with completion expected in the second quarter of 2008. Cardinal entered commercial operation in 1967. The plant consists of three 615-megawatt Babcock & Wilcox supercritical opposed-fired dry bottom boilers. Mechanical construction for the scrubbers is scheduled for kick-off this spring, with Unit #1 completion scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2007, and Unit #2 in the following spring 2008. Black & Veatch Construction (Overland, Kansas) is contracted to perform construction and the balance of plant for this project. Cardinal Unit #3 will be retrofitted at a later date with a different technology.

In addition to Cardinal, Black & Veatch has also been contracted to install a scrubber at AEP’s 615-megawatt Unit #5 at the Muskingum River Power Station (Waterford, Ohio) to be completed in the summer of 2008.

A scrubber will also be installed on the 842-megawatt Unit #4 at the Conesville Power Station (Conesville, Ohio) with completion set for mid 2009. Construction will start this spring at the plant on the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) System, which is used to remove nitrogen dioxide emissions.

Preliminary design is being evaluated for a wet scrubber to be installed on an 800-megawatt unit at the Big Sandy Power Station (Louisa, Kentucky) in 2008.

A big portion of the $2.2-billion will be invested in West Virginia. The 3-unit 2,932-megawatt John Amos Power Station (Winfield, West Virginia) will have scrubbers installed by the end of 2008 or early 2009. Construction is to start this summer, with Babcock & Wilcox Incorporated (Barbeton, Ohio) supplying and erecting the equipment. See related article - AEP Plans $700 Million Scrubber Project at West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant.

The company will also be performing scrubber installation at the 1,600-megawatt Mitchell Power Station (Moundsville, West Virginia) to be completed mid 2007.

Foundation pouring had started last summer on the wet scrubber at the 1,300-megawatt coal-fired Mountaineer Power Station (New Haven, West Virginia), and the possibility of a new scrubber is being discussed at the 3-unit 713-megawatt Kammer Power Station (Moundsville, West Virginia).

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