Calpine Completes 180-Megawatt Addition at Fox Energy Center

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) (San Jose, California) has completed construction and start-up testing for the second phase of its $430 million Fox Energy Center in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. Construction on the second phase started in April 2005, and was completed in late August 2005. Calpine anticipates full commercial start-up by the end of December.

The project consisted of adding an additional 183-megawatt GE Power Systems MS7001FB combustion turbine/generator and a Nooter/Eriksen heat recovery steam generator that will be equipped with supplementary duct firing to the existing plant. The plant operates in a combine cycle configuration with a generating capacity of 300 megawatts that will increase by an additional 260 megawatts, once the new unit is fully operational.

Fox Energy Center is the first power plant in the Calpine fleet to use General Electric’s advanced 7FB combustion turbines and is the first 7FB unit in the GE fleet to successfully complete dual-fuel testing on both natural gas and fuel oil.

Parsons Power Group, Incorporated of Reading, Pennsylvania performed the engineering for the project. Oscar J. Boldt Construction Company, headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, acted as the general contractor.

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