CPS Energy Moves Forward with Installation of Peaking Capacity at Braunig Power Station in Texas

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Plans are in motion by CPS Energy (San Antonio, Texas), the nation's largest municipally owned energy company, to install peaking capacity at the V.H. Braunig Power Station near Elmendorf, Texas. The station has three natural-gas-fired steam turbine units with a combined capacity of 894 megawatts (MW). The first unit began commercial operation in 1966 with the last one coming online in 1970.

Now with reserve margins shrinking, the company is in the process of adding peaking units to increase capacity by 200 MW. CPS will install four simple-cycle natural-gas-fired General Electric (NYSE:GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut) LM6000 combustion turbine generator sets. WorleyParsons Group Incorporated, a division of WorleyParsons Limited (ASX:WOR) (Sydney, Australia), will provide engineering services for the project from its Folsom, California, office. The general contractor for the project is Austin Industrial Incorporated (Houston, Texas), a subsidiary of Austin Industries Incorporated (Dallas, Texas). Construction is anticipated to begin this summer with commercial operation slated for summer 2009.

In addition to the new peaking capacity at Braunig, CPS is well under way on the construction of the 800-MW coal-fired Unit 2 at the J.K. Spruce Station. Construction on this unit started in 2006, and plans are to begin commercial operation in 2010.

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