Ames Construction at Work on $1.5 Billion of U.S. Projects

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Founded more than 60 years ago, Ames Construction (Burnsville, Minnesota) has become a key player in the U.S. industrial construction sector. Industrial Info is tracking $1.5 billion worth of active projects involving Ames, mostly focused around the U.S. power sector.

Ames is gaining a foothold in the renewable energy sector with solar and hydropower projects. Among its solar power projects is National Grid plc's (NYSE:NGG) (London, England) Wild Springs photovoltaic solar plant in New Underwood, South Dakota, construction of which kicked off earlier this year. The facility will use approximately 340,000 First Solar Incorporated (NASDAQ:FSLR) (Tempe, Arizona) solar panels to provide a nameplate generating capacity of 128 megawatts (MW). According to National Grid, the Wild Springs facility will be the largest solar power plant in South Dakota. Ames is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the project, which is expected to be completed toward the end of this year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for more information.

Ames is putting the finishing touches on the 200-MW Indiana Crossroads solar farm in White County, Indiana. The facility is being constructed by a subsidiary of Energias de Portugal SA (EDP) (Lisbon, Portugal), with Ames providing EPC services. The solar farm's panels will use a single-axis tracking system to provide nameplate generation of 200 MW. Upon completion, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) (Merrillville, Indiana) will own the project, according to a build-transfer agreement between EDP and NIPSCO. Subscribers can click here to learn more.

Another renewable energy project involving Ames may be some years away from breaking ground. Absoroka Energy (Bozeman, Montana) has been planning the Gordon Butte pumped-storage hydropower plant near Martinsdale, Montana, for some time. The facility is to be built on private land and will pump water from a lower to a higher storage reservoir in times of low power demand and allow the water from the high to the low reservoir through three turbine-generator units in times of higher demand to provide 400 MW of generation. Each reservoir will be approximately 4,000 feet long and 1,000 feet wide and will be connected in a closed-loop system. The project potentially could break ground in 2026, taking an estimated five to six years to complete. Ames is providing EPC services for the project. Subscribers can click here for more information.

The hydropower project also would require power transmission and distribution infrastructure, including a 6.5-mile, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line and two substations, including one near the facility and another 230/500-kV convertor substation. Subscribers can click here for the report on the transmission line, click here for the 230-kV substation and click here for the report on the Cottonwood Creek convertor substation.

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