Cogentrix Energy Set to Begin Construction of $50 Million Expansion Project at Plains End Power Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Plain Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado), a subsidiary of Cogentrix Energy, Incorporated (Charlotte, North Carolina), is set to start construction of the $50 million, 117-megawatt (MW) expansion project at the Plains End Power Station in Golden, Colorado.

The expansion project is set to begin construction by mid-March and is scheduled for full commercial operation by the summer of 2008. The project will consist of adding fourteen 8.4 MW Wärtsilä North America, Incorporated 20V34SG natural gas-fired engines to the existing plant. The new engines will operate in a simple cycle peaking configuration capable of generating a total of 117 megawatts. Plains End currently operates twenty Wärtsilä 18V34SGs that can generate a total of 111 megawatts. Upon completion of the expansion project, the plant will have a nameplate capacity of 228 megawatts.

Utility Engineering Corporation, located in Denver, Colorado, will provide the engineering services for the project. The Industrial Company (TIC), based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, will act as the general contractor.

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